Mad skillz
Nov. 16th, 2015 08:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offcntrOkay, I'm gonna brag a little. I mentioned earlier that I have a lot of fun designing the postcards: posing the scenes, making or buying props, shooting the picture.
PhotoShopping™ it all together. (Excuse me, they don't like us to use their product name as a verb. Photo editing it all together.)
Case in point: for this year's postcard, I made a quick-and-dusty set-up on the workbench in my studio. Backdrop is a sheet of freezer paper, dull side up. I took a dozen or two shots with different poses, lighting, before choosing these four:
I sized them all slightly different: Maggie was at 67%, as I recall, Evgeny at 60%, Umberto 75% or so. I flopped Evgeny left for right, shot 'Berto from a high angle to make it look like he was looking into the box, retouched the box itself to hide where the kitty's been chewing on a corner since last Christmas. Fiddled with dodge and burn tools to get highlights and shadows in the right places. Ultimately, I composed them all into this one, fairly seamless result. Pretty cool, huh?
PhotoShopping™ it all together. (Excuse me, they don't like us to use their product name as a verb. Photo editing it all together.)
Case in point: for this year's postcard, I made a quick-and-dusty set-up on the workbench in my studio. Backdrop is a sheet of freezer paper, dull side up. I took a dozen or two shots with different poses, lighting, before choosing these four:
I sized them all slightly different: Maggie was at 67%, as I recall, Evgeny at 60%, Umberto 75% or so. I flopped Evgeny left for right, shot 'Berto from a high angle to make it look like he was looking into the box, retouched the box itself to hide where the kitty's been chewing on a corner since last Christmas. Fiddled with dodge and burn tools to get highlights and shadows in the right places. Ultimately, I composed them all into this one, fairly seamless result. Pretty cool, huh?
