This was a difficult shoot. I had her pose in front of a continuous white background and told her to pretend she was walking up a staircase, swinging her arms, etc. I shot maybe 4-5 different ones. Then, I photographed the flower and took the individual K64 transparencies, sandwiched them together and copied it with a micro lens in order to get the negative for this print.. It was originally hand painted with Marshall's oil paints but I thought I'd like a B&W also and this is the result. The shadow under her right foot makes it look more convincing.
I wanted to try my hand at something a little less ordinary and surrealistic and as the wheels begin spinning I got a model that was use to sitting before an art class who didn't mind the photos and after I told her what I wanted to accomplish she wanted an 8x10. The hand painting took the most time-maybe a week with the transparent Marshall's oil paints but it turned out rather nicely on 11x14 paper. Ektalure R was the perfect paper for this.
This is outstanding. I look at flowers all the time and never see anything like this. Damn your lucky. But On the serious side. very well done. I couldn't do this on Photoshop. I tried doing some overlays when I was in Photo school ( feels like back in the Daguerreotype era)and had some success. But have no interest with modern digital techniques in doing it. Seems everyone can do it so it just isn't a challenge. Again a outstanding Print!!!!!!!! PS: you said you used a white background for her. I would have thought a Black background would have given you a thin negative and the other image would have shown throw much better. but what ever you did it worked great.
I used the continuous white background as I knew with K64 it would turn out basically clear for me to add the flower on another slide. By sandwiching the two transparencies(with her on top) in one individual mask I got the effect I wanted. Had I used black it would have blocked the flower. I used the vivitar 90 f2.5 Series I macro lens to copy that slide with PanX to get the B&W negative I needed.