I took some of my images which I took in the studio and some which are from the archives and made photo montages by mixing these. I was primarily taking the people from the archive images and putting them into my object images to replicate the style of photographer Rafal Milach, who took images of objects with colourful backgrounds and photo shopped people into them to create an interesting aspect.

What I did :

I first took an image which I liked and which I felt can be used for this type of photo montage.

I then took an archive image with people in it which I could use with the object photo I chose.

For this photo montage, I wanted to make it look like the soldiers are looking for something or someone, so I chose one who looked like he could be peering around the corner. I cut him out and put him at the side of the helmet, and then went and cleaned up the edged with the eraser to give it more of a neat and natural look.

From that same archive image I took another soldier and did the same – cut him out and put him on the side of the helmet.

Since I want to make him look like he’s looking around the side of the helmet, I needed to erase some of the image away to make him look like he’s on the other side of the helmet. To do this I erased his legs but kept his arm on the side.

I moved the layer the cut out was on to be underneath the first guy I cut out to make it seem that he is in front of him, and so they don’t over lap and seem unnatural.

I found another archive image which I thought I would be able to use in my object image.

After cutting the soldier out I placed him on the top of the helmet to make it look like he’s looking for something or someone from a higher angle, since he looks like he’s holding some sort of device, such as binoculars or a camera. Like the other two, i cleaned up the edges to give it more of a natural and neat look.

I chose one more archive image and cut out the guy at the front in the suit.

I decided to place him on the other side of the helmet to make it seem that he is the guy the soldiers are looking for, and since he is holding something in his hand it looks like that he might have something which the soldiers want and that’s the reason they are looking for him.

Final outcome :