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IMGL0584nassaugroup9anikselectiveflhplinear. I have become unclear whether to call these collages or composites. I guess I have to settle on a kind of hybrid. I try to get shadow and light and blends under control but I think that my colour vision (Red Green) tends to pull me off the rails, Maybe I should call them compages!
Photo Art Composite. See original here: www.flickr.com/photos/193474231@N06/53588323802/in/datepo...
This is a concept I've been wanting to try out for ages, and is heavily inspired by the Where the Wild Things Are movie.
It took spotting the ever-awesome Rosie Hardy's latest series to kick start me in to actually doing it though - so who better to ask to work with me on it! Rosie nailed the expression I was going for, and we had a fun afternoon in the woods. So thanks Rosie :)
This was one of the first composites I ever did using Photoshop. It consists of three photos. The girls were swimming in the ocean in Monterey, Ca. The portapotties were at an event in Kingsburg, and the building was a burnt-out shell of a building in San Joaquin, Ca.
So, with special thanks to Joel Grimes for his compositing tutorial, and Scott Kelby for hosting it on his www.kelbytraining.com website, here is my first attempt at a composite using an old studio portrait (my avatar, actually) and an old HDR background. I look forward to doing some sports shots in the future!
by the red brown water and the flow of the moor brook, the underwater flora and the clear blue sky, together with some reflections of the twigs above
NSG Duvenstedter Brook, Hamburg, Germany
A composite image inspired by a similar non-composite taken by Greg Ness a couple months ago. While Greg was able to frame the moon, clouds, and cranes all at once, I was not so lucky. I got glimpses of the moon, but they never coincided with when cranes were in the air. Whenever cranes were nicely silhouetted, the moon was covered by cloud. Here, I resorted to the magic of Photoshop to link together the separate components I captured into the scene I had hoped to see.
One of the interesting exhibits at the Beamish Museum is the printing room above the sweet shop. It's easily missed but contains a treasure trove of items from the past including a bench press and this compositing table. Imagine doing this every day to produce a newspaper!
Whenever I dig into my old stuff the question always creeps into my head, "What would I tell that kid if I could tell him anything?"
You are going to do OK for yourself but in a quiet, unspectacular way. He (I) already knew that. In fact I took that for granted.
You are going to lose people that mean the world to you and you will never stop grieving for them. I knew that too ( we all do ) but I would have never admitted as much, preferring to only recognize those bitter truths as I was being run over by them.
I suppose I couldn't resist giving some sage advice but I wouldn't listen to myself. I remember making a point of not acting on good advice when dispensed by anyone professing to know what life was really about.
All in all it's a good thing time travel isn't possible. Aside from being freaked out by my wrinkly old self showing up to tell me crap I knew but didn't have the courage to act on, I would have been angered that all the suspense and mystery had just been taken out of life. For all the effort that goes into fiction about jumping back or ahead in time I think it is good that we have to crunch along alone without the aid of a nebbish future self showing up every so often to whine and moan about how I'm so lacking in ambition. I'm peeved at myself right now just for thinking up the thought of it.
I first put this together in 2012. Today I thought about it and made an effort to find the original images. 1974 was taken with a Canon F1 and a 50mm f1.4. 2012 was taken with a Pentax K10D and the 18-55 kit lens. In 2012 I used Gimp to stack the images. This time around I used Affinity Photo.
I don't do many composites. And to be honest, I am not sure why. I have always just been happy with capturing a scene naturally and it wasn't until lately where I started experimenting and trying some new things.
I took the sky from another image I posted recently, the one with the headlamp on a road. I really like the texture in the sky so I thought I would add it to one of my looking up at architecture shots.
I masked over the bottom bit it still wasn't right. I was left with bright blue in the building's reflection so I duplicated the sky and blended it through again giving it the pink hue.
It gives the image much more drama and mystery and the gradient in the sky matches up so well with the edge of the building, almost like it is back-lit and glowing.
Day 43
It's true isn't it. I mean, whenever there is a household dispute, someone is bound to suffer. And most of the time, its the poor husband. Why, because "a happy wife leads to a happy life" or something in that context. You can contest this, and I know a lot of you who will, but that is the hard fact of life. You can not and will not win against your discontented better half. Might as well just bow your head and raise the white flag and hopefully she will abide.
Anyway, I had this idea a few days ago when me and the wife had a bit of a tiff. Minor stuff, but still inconvenient to say the least. I discussed the concept with her (after we settled ourselves) and she was excited to do the shoot. Took us a good half hour to get the expressions right but after that, it was smooth sailing all through out.
For the lighting, its pretty straight forward. Softbox as key overhead cam right and two strip box at the 10 and 2 o'clock of the subject (full power).
Before I close this blog, I want to leave you with a thought. When was your last fight with the wife and who actually won?