Inspirational Composite Artist: Rian Flynn

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rianflynn/

This is one of the flickr pages I always go to for inspiration on my photoshop creations. He's stationed out of San Francisco where he does many workshops for upcoming photographers. My only complaint is that all of his shots make use of really expensive lighting, but this guy knows what he's doing and his pictures reflect it.

He has disabled sharing of his photos, but check out these links to his pictures:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rianflynn/5758914355/in/photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rianflynn/4923872263/in/photostream

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:

and

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.

Cokin ND Filter P-Series Test

Just got the ND filter kit for the P-series holder by Cokin. Here are some really quick tests I did as I'd like to jump right in to some car photography when my adapter ring comes in. All shots were on the Tokina 11-16.

Taken without a filter. Actually not too bad, the sun is on the far side so the sky isn't too blown out.

With the Cokin 121 L 1 stop (light)

Cokin 121M - 2-stop (Medium)

 

Cokin 121S - 3-stop (Soft) and not positioned the best. Also, not much a difference for this sky from 2-3 stops.

 Now... where are some clouds to test this out on

One of my Favorite Photographers

Featuring the page of Flick's Phamster: http://www.flickr.com/photos/-phamster-/

This guy is amazing for two reasons.
1. He is amazing because his photos are brilliant.
2. He is amazing because he tells you his complete light setup and camera info for every single one of his pictures along with the story of each.

Photography is this guys life and he's succeeded with some of the best engagement photos and creative shoots I've seen. So much inspiration!

Soccer-esque Photos

One of the more riskier photo shoots I've done haha. The sprinklers turned on at the field and we had to sprint out of there with all the gear in hand.

The lighting was rather fun and interesting. We had a bare flash to camera left and behind the player, fully zoomed in and at full power. It's responsible for giving the circular light on the field and the strong shadow on the ball. The second flash is on camera right on half power and shot through an umbrella to light up the player.

In conclusion, just a little fun to diversify my portfolio haha