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Photomontage is a difficult exercise, because it needs:

one or several good photos from which the manipulations will be performed

good ideas

skills in photo manipulation and other graphical tools

a spark of madness necessary to show you the result!

For example : the vampire on the tomb was no vampire, not on the tomb, and the cemetary wasn’t photographed by night...

- Lunar ©AbsurdePhoton -
The hidden face of the Moon

- Angelic ©AbsurdePhoton -
I added wings to wrap this angelic body, gave a watercolor aspect to the picture to integrate them better

- Draped back (fake-negative) ©AbsurdePhoton -
A beautiful draped back in ''fake-negative''

- Scarlet vampire ©AbsurdePhoton -
A shift of colors over a negative image produces a vampire inspired by the film ''30 Days of Night''

- Luci (vampire) ©AbsurdePhoton -
This cemetary is haunted by night by a cruel wampire with fiery eyes & sharp fangs

- Mari-Anne-Lyn (Warhol) ©AbsurdePhoton -
What you learn about trying to recreate this Andy Warhol effect is the difficulty of harmoniously positionning the colored areas without repetitions

- Pinup verre brisé ©AbsurdePhoton -
The broken glass gives a kaleidocopic look to this picture

- Prostrate (Recolored) ©AbsurdePhoton -
Only the hair & body have been recolored, giving the skin a more milky look

- Statue (Light) ©AbsurdePhoton -
Light beams fly around this statuesque pose, erasing the reliefs of the body

- Trouble-vision (Fake negative) ©AbsurdePhoton -
Something is ''wrong'' in this photo, I named this effect ''fake-negative''

- Walking Dead ©AbsurdePhoton -
Playing with color shifts, mixed with a negative of the photo, I stumbled upon this horrific vision the ''Walking Dead'' comics would approve

- Vampirella ©AbsurdePhoton -
A deathly complexion & red eyes give a strange mood to this photo, calling back memories of the ''Vampirella'' comics

- Takeoff (China) ©AbsurdePhoton -
A blur effect for the takeoff impression, on a chinese landscape background

- The little yellow dress (montage) ©AbsurdePhoton -
A classic of photomanipulation : a coloured element in a black & white photo

- Dichotomy (Old look) ©AbsurdePhoton -
A black & white ‘’old’’ look