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Photo Art Composite. See original here: www.flickr.com/photos/193474231@N06/53588323802/in/datepo...
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?
Composite of moon added to the bridge over the rail tracks in Peterborough and a snow action added in PS CC
3 Image Composite Abstract from Mill Meece Pumping Station, Staffordshire, England
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Chosen as the Group Cover Page Image by the 'SCIENCE FICTION and DIGITAL ART' group.
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This is a rare composite by me, I really had no intention to shoot here, but as I was driving down to Natural Bridge to shoot there I noticed the moon was still very high in the sky and I needed to kill some time. So I decided to stop at the Swamp Canyon pulloff and snap a couple foreground pictures with the moon shiny on the cliff tops. Later after shooting Agua Canyon and Natural Bridge I had about 15 minutes before astro twilight started so I drove back to this pulloff and snapped a few shots of the sky as astro twilight started. I thought the brightening of the eastern sky during the start of twilight accented the bright moonlit cliffs so I went ahead and put the composite together.
Shot this one with my Nikon D800E and Sigma Art 35mm on a Sky Watcher Star Adventurer 6 shots total. 3 foreground shots, 1 minute at f2 and ISO 800, 3 sky shots, 2 minutes at f2.5 and ISO 800.
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Scanned & Rotated Tripack Abstract Composite
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This is a composite of some shots taken around Pettit Lake in central Idaho, Andy Jones and I shot there the night after the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower. We got some good shots earlier in the night with Antares and the Rho Ophiuchi Complex above the horizon, then later moved over towards the lake and shot there. I wasn't overly happy with the sky shots from our last shooting location, the airglow was so overwhelming it was pretty much impossible to process such that you could even see the Milky Way, so I decided to composite in the sky shot from our first shooting location (where my foreground turned out awful and I decided not to use it). Scale is correct for the composite, but the core height and angle for this alignment is impossible. Still a gorgeous spot to shoot at, the mountains across from the lake are at a perfect distance for the 50mm lens.
10 exposures for this one, shot with my Nikon D800E and Sigma Art 50mm on my Sky Watcher Star Adventurer tracking mount. 5 foreground exposures, each 2 minutes at ISO 1600 and f1.8; 5 sky exposures, each 4 minutes at ISO 800 and f2.8.
Well, I had to try to get some shots of the super moon tonight since last night didn't work out as planned. (The moon rose behind a foggy haze over the ocean so I couldn't see it at the horizon when it looks the biggest.) Tonight I got to a new location about 15 minutes from home, and set up my camera 5 minutes early, then to my HUGE disappointment discovered I had swapped a low battery for another one and didn't check it. So I had a DEAD battery in my camera! :-( And then the moon came up big and glorious and golden orange. I phone my husband to tell him what happened and how gorgeous the moon was, and he offered to bring me the other battery which was on the charger. I said no, it would likely be too late when he arrived, so I just watched and enjoyed the scene. There were a couple of other photographers there and I asked each of them if they had a spare battery..no luck...Just as I was getting in my car to leave, my husband arrived with the other battery. What a darling!! So I got a few shots, but not the ones I planned. And then I enjoyed the view of the city lights reflecting on the water and got a few shots of the distant MacDonald bridge. The shot below of the moon rising is a composite of what I saw but didn't capture..photoshop helps me keep the memory. I decided I could go back tomorrow evening but it sounds like we may have rain and clouds.
Forensic portrait from the anthropomorphology laboratories at the Home for Wayward Baby Dolls. Hi baby. Most of the specimens at the Home are deceased, but I don't know about this one. Those are certainly some pretty nasty radiation burns around the cheek area, and she was absolutely nailed to the barn. But the little doll moved so convincingly. View small (for god's sake!). Composed of three composited images.
This is the bridge over to the Aberlady Bay Nature Reserve. It is a composite of five separate images. I was originally just looking to take the bridge on it's own but there was a steady stream of people coming back from the beach so I thought it would be cool to get some shots of them crossing over as well. Once I got home I picked out shots so that I had at least one person in each section of the bridge then blended them together. Bit of a fiddly process but I think it turned out pretty good :)
Composite of a Shirley taken at Whitby Goth Festival in April 2013. Thanks to Black Dog for his help and guidance on this one!
I'm not one for putting to much of a description or even a story to a photo. You don't go to an Art museum and Read about the art. You analyze, interpret and come to your own conclusions. So I leave you with this image I put together this evening. Feel free to make your own conclusions....
Composite: Three images
Strobist:
b800 right 2/3 power with softbox