Haunted by the Past

A favorite picture of mine I did with my good friend Francis again. Composed of these two pictures and a picture of just the wall

I love posting before and afters because it really shows that the sky is the limit with what you can do with programs like photoshop and after effects. I'm not saying that great amounts of time isn't involved too, like the rotoscoping for this photo took a long time, but you really can recreate your dreams. I think a big thing for photographers is to have a final image clearly in mind. My best photos came from ideas that I had clearly laid out in my mind.

And just like my picture "Left Alone" the fog was made from atmosphere footage from Action Movie Essentials 2 at videocopilot.com. The greenfog look was inspired by spongebob haha

Late Night BBQ

Here the photo I did in my hometown for a reflection photo competition:

The photo is a photoshopped composite of these two photos:

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It wasn't my first choice to photoshop it, I ran down to the location right after it rained, but being a hot summer night, it was all pointless haha. So improvising, I took the two photos. The hard part was putting in the puddle, which I'm still not satisfied with. Its a black layer with a fractal noise overlayed. I also dropped in a red light in the final composite.

Here's another look to the image with some more color grading:

Isolated Composite

Here's the final on a composite I did at the same time as my dream composite:

The photo can be seen better on my flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/32073706@N05/

And for anyone interested, here's the original:

 

The hardest part was matching the angles of the floor with a camera, but after that repeating the floor texture and dropping in the light was a breeze. I will admit that I got lazy at rotoscoping out the rose though haha. I will still count this as a work in progress, but I feel I am very close to getting the look I had in mind!

Dream Composite

Hello, here's my latest photo, a dream composite I did of my girlfriend. Shot on the tokina 11-16mm. For this photo, it was key to see the end product as I was taking the clean plates.

And here's the original, there was one flash through an umbrella to immediate camera right and a bare flash farther to camera right at the other bed post.

I did all the post work in Adobe After Effects, not photoshop. That way, I could make use of a particle system with sprites to create the grass for the field.