Not at all, that's what surprised me to see them. It's been peeing it down for weeks and freezing cold and the park where I saw them is a quagmire of mud and puddles. They were obviously feeling optimistic.
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Photo of the day: February 2014
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Not at all, that's what surprised me to see them. It's been peeing it down for weeks and freezing cold and the park where I saw them is a quagmire of mud and puddles. They were obviously feeling optimistic.
Haha, I'll take that as a compliment?!
It's a composite. I used a Magic Lantern perspective grid to help frame everything each time, marking out distances with a tape measure and keeping the camera at the same height and angle. I shot myself in my living room balancing on a bunch of chairs, my body is actually a composite of 3 shots though as I couldn't balance the right limbs in the right places.
From there I drew highlights and shadows using a Wacom tablet in Photoshop to make the lighting look more natural on my suit (as it was completely diffused from my flash).
Hope that helps!
playing with pixelmator to see if it can replace my current workflow
mmm, somehow it got rotated.
weird. looks ok here
mmm, somehow it got rotated.
weird. looks ok here
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Great results, but you're doing it the hard way! It's much easier to have a couple of people lift you up to take the 'levitation' shot and then take a second shot with no people in it (camera on a tripod for both shots, of course).
It was meant as one.
Yes it was the floating part that I was curious about. Interesting you used three different shots. I would never have thought of that.
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Not necessarily easier. I'd need a strong couple of people to lift me!
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I'm so thoroughly sick of not getting a bit of snow or ice this winter.......
Oh most definitely, but I'm sad to say I don't have any local photography friends and everyone else falls in with the "help me but I won't help you" attitude.
On the plus side, it helps me get better at composites, which is never a bad thing.
You'd be compositing either way, but your method certainly forces you to employ some difficult perspective matching that could be beneficial for all sorts of ideas that you may want to pursue. I look forward to seeing what you come up with next!
Making a Mini Studio - This is a step-by-step write up of how I'm doing my food photography in the front seat of my Freightliner.
Looking good, LumbermanSVO. Now you just need something to reflect light in the front. You're not getting enough light there, which is a common problem with light tents that don't have a front panel. One thing you can try is hanging a sheet of white fabric in the front, with a slit cut into it, through which you can insert the lens of your camera. Just make sure it's a thick and reflective fabric (there are some inexpensive polyester options that work well).
From the Yukon Quest 2014. Fairbanks, Alaska.
Love this photo and the dogs look as though they're really enjoying themselves!
Hope that was a long lens you were using!
Most definitely! I have another (kind of) self portrait coming up that I'm going to have to do the same compositing technique, so this was almost a trial run really.
I am so thoroughly sick of winter......
50D , 15-85@46 , f5.6@1/125 , ISO 100
I hear you. The only place that should have snow are the mountains. If I were to make Earth from scratch, it would be just warm beaches that are an hour away from snowy mountains, and not much of that lame in-between stuff
Italian Alps in July for today.
After a long hiatus from POTD, I hope to be a regular here again.
Here's one from Land's End on the Baja Peninsula...
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Here's one from Land's End on the Baja Peninsula...
After a long hiatus from POTD, I hope to be a regular here again.
Here's one from Land's End on the Baja Peninsula...
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Welcome back!
I like it. But have you considered cropping off the bottom?
Another one from Sunday. I turned this one 90 deg because it looked better to me that way. Other opinions are welcome.
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The main boulevard under the shady canopy of giant Moreton Bay Figs at the Adelaide Botanic Garden, South Australia.
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The Walk by playswithlight, on Flickr
The Walk by playswithlight, on Flickr
