Low tech Space Box Art

After looking at Woodsys recent post about Tarheel Sword boxes and how they might have been made, I was soring through some of my old photos and fund some shots I had done a few years back for the Swizzels Spacefleet 2000 premiums.

I wanted a nostalgic look to the photos, that was reminiscent of the sixties box art (even though the candy premiums only appeared 20 odd years later!) So I got an astronomy book off the shelf, which showed nice clear pictures of the planets and various nebulae etc and propped it up in the kitchen.

Then I got a cereal box and a couple of wooden skewers, poked them into the box and balanced the empty cereal premiums on the end.

As i was after a slightly ethereal look t the shots, I put a diffusion filter on the camera lens, which gives a halo effect to the image. It keeps the subject relatively sharp, but blurs the edges for a halation effect.
 

Then I took the image into Photoshop, removed the skewer from the shot and added a distressed edge to the frame and voila! although the images are a little blurry, they fit the bill for what i was after and no A.I was involved!