Since the scene to be depicted was an Eastcoast shoreline,
and I live in the midwest,
I relied on photographic reference that I have taken over the years when
traveling.
Here is the composite Photo developed in Photoshop.
This scene was developed through the integration of the
following reference material:
A photo of my model here in Indiana + gulls photographed from a boat off
of North Carolina.
I added to this a black and white photo of a sailboat from a travel book.
The Shoreline was also from my in-stock photo reference
material,
as was the photograph of the waves.
All these elements were scanned, cropped, isolated, and
integrated into several compositions
before settling on the arrangement above. This computer generated photo
montage was then
used as the reference for my composition, while the individual photo sources
were viewed
for the details, when needed.
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