artistic vigilante volume 1,issue 2 ''The imagination took us everywhere''

So the lady in the coliseum I started with the sky
as a background. It is a lovely, moody sky but I
lowered the saturation by -41 and the lightness
by -18. Adjusted the colour balance; Red +9,
green +1 and blue -17. I added the colosseum
but flipped it horizontally. So it was on the left of
the picture. That just felt right to do.The colosseum
had hue/sat adjustment layer with the sat
-58 and the lightness reduced to -21 and I put
a graduated fill of black on the bottom and left
side. I added some light rays from the sun on
the right using a cloud brush and radial/gaussian
blurs.I used the same bride as the one in the
consequence of sound. Except this one has a
white dress, I just did some colour correction by
reducing saturation -33and reducing the amount
of yellow by -7.
So I added them in just scattering them around
the picture and I like odd numbers so I used 5.
Added different Gaussian blurs to them all and
repeated the dodge/burn.
I layer masked her into the scene and added shadow
to her back using the dodge/burn brushes on a
50% grey layer with the blend mode set to overlay.
I liked the image as it was but decided to add in
some flying umbrellas, just because it needed to be
more surreal. And as the red goes so well with the
current colour theme, I decided they would be red
umbrellas. So I added them in just scattering them
around the picture and I like odd numbers so I
used 5. Added different Gaussian blurs to them all
and repeated the dodge/burn on each umbrella.
I duplicated the sun rays so that one layer sat on
the top of the image and over the bride. I added
my custom gradient map at 32% opacity. I loaded
the image into Lightroom and added one of my
custom LR presets. That’s the process, it’s a pretty
technical piece and took me about 3 hours to do.
It’s also one of the images I have created where I
haven’t gone back and forth changing things as I’m
happy with it.