Science Museum of Virginia • Question your world

Objective: Create a photo illustration of a young boy lifting an ocean wave to inspect what lies beneath it. Process/Solution: The boy was photographed in studio and composited in to the stock background. The beach was cleaned up and a new sky dropped in; similar donor images of wave action were used to create the magical wave. Techniques: Compositing, retouching, illustration Acknowledgements: Agency: Siddall Art director: Shari Hindman Photography: John Henley (landscape), Todd Wright (boy)

Photo of boy © Todd Wright Photography

Photo of beach and sky © John Henley Photography

Composite photo-illustration joint © : GLOTZL , John Henley Photography and Todd Wright Photography.

Click the video above to see a quick slideshow of how this image was put together.

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