Big Fishing

This was actually my first attempt at digital collage, and one of the first things I ever did in Photoshop… the idea behind this image is what inspired me to learn about digital imaging. This was probably around 1990.

The main shot is off the pier at Flagler Beach, Florida. The guy on the right actually had something on his line that was still in the water. A year later, I shot the Dolphin at an aquatic show in the Algarve, southern Portugal...

In Photoshop 4.0 (!), I positioned the dolphin to follow the gaze of the guy with the cap.
It was impossible to import all the tiny splashes and droplets with the dolphin photo, and I spent many hours cloning these in from a series of selected ones.
Lightning in background was drawn with Photoshop tools.

All elements were shot on Fuji Reala 100 ISO color print film on a Canon EOS-100 SLR + EF 28-80 USM. The negatives were scanned to digital on a Canon FS 2710 film scanner.