Left Alone

I've finished my latest photoshoot and got some great greenscreen photos. A big thanks to my model Joyce and my MUA Chelsea. Here's one of the photos: Left Alone

And here's a cropped version of the original

I had a very particular look for this image in mind. I wanted a gray background and a TON of fog surrounding her lower half. I used the atmosphere footage from videocopilot.net's action movie essential 2. After layering about 20 stills from the footage haha, I got a look that fit what I had in mind. Then several level adjustments to the model to get dark hair with a ghostly skin tone, and an adjustment layer of contrast and diffusion and wah-lah. More pictures to come from this shoot!

Cries Lost in a Pool

Here is the final image that I am quite proud of:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/32073706@N05/5918580217/in/photostream

And.. dun dun dun dun... here's the original:

So alot of things going on here to say the least. First off, I edited it in Adobe After Effects for video editing, because that's what I was most comfortable with at the time. The water, which took ALOT of minor tweaking was a 3D layer of fractal noise, scaled and tinted black and blue, and with a slight blur. I really think the reflection on the water helps sell it, although it's pretty obvious its cg water.

I did the makeup/running mascara in AE also, which was to protest from the model Chelsea who was alot the MU artist for this shoot. It was a mix of the burn tool and color overlays to get the look I wanted. I also probably added a turbulent displace to try to get some organic curves. I also added a touch of blue to her eyes and some glossiness to her hair.

Lastly I did some color grading and blasted the contrast beyond normally acceptable limits haha and added a bluish tint with a curves adjustment. And wa-lah.

Hope you guys like it.

Lost in the Thicket

Here's a photo I did a year ago, but uploaded to my relatively new flickr account:

model: chelsea

This was a really neat photo to do! First off, it was shot in front of a (poorly lit) greenscreen, as seen below:

I had alot of different possible looks for this picture, and I sorta stumbled upon the last look by accident. I grabbed some photos of bare trees like this:

So I overlayed those on, one in the foreground and one in the background. Meanwhile applying a crushed black and white look to the model, matching the trees. One person I talked to suggested the branches could've been done with a burn tool, which while probably hard to get an organic look, is a substitute. So all-in-all a really simple method for a pretty cool pic