April 18 - Feminine

Diana, goddess of the hunt, moon and birth - twin of Apollo and connected to animals and the woodland.

This is another experiment :) I thought Diana standing in her niche at the museum was not appropriate for a goddess, so I found her a woodland and made some mist and sent the light of a full moon filtering down on her through the leaves. Another fun project and I have included the original sooc images. The tree is beside our house, Diana is in Russia :) I like the result. It's done in several layers - first I duplicated Diana and erased her background - a bit tricky because she is a similar colour, then I added a layer with the tree underneath her and adjusted the relative sizes. Once that was done, added a layer above both in orange, set to overlay and adjusted opacity so that it was just a glow. Then a white gradient for fog, wiped back to make the light beams, then I added a vignette and changed it all to B&W then adjusted opacity of this layer just enough to give it warmth - Feminine - done!