Day 07 Object Made with Splines

I came across with this beautiful photograph of seagulls.

So I decided to use it for my cinema 4d assignment this week

by adding some subtle floating particles onto the background.

Here is a picture of  the particles that I modeled by

simply  using the spline tool, cloner, and two visible lights.

 Then I project the image to a plane,

and started to adjust the camera to make it look better.

Here is the first attempt, a close shot, kind of creepy.

 Then I think a wide shot might be better, 

because 

then you can see all the seagulls.

Here is the second attempt, then I realize the particles are really huge and it's even creepier.

So, I lower the opacity and adjust the material applied to the particles and

came up with this picture.

It's more subtle and I like this version

although the c4d works become almost invisible...
(but it's okay...)