A challange in perspective and Photoshop...

It's not everyday you are asked to make things look "fake". That was part challenge that I was faced with for this project. The other "part of the challenge" was to make it believable...
Turning humans into doll like figures and placing them in to a "live" scene.

Below you can see a shot of Rachel holding and empty doll box. The shot to the right we see the "Industry doll" added to the scene. It was a few extra hours of post production and a learning experience for me...


This is what my Layers palette looked like...Awesome!

What was fun about this shoot was the client really wanted a "synthetic feel" for the dolls. The shot on the left is the original and then you can see the process of making the doll. Lots of Liquefy tool was used along with Free Transform, Cloning tool & Noise Ninja. Shooting the right angle and rotation of her body was the most important part of matching Katherine up with her previously shot "doll box". Notice the change in the color of the leggings. Asked for by the Client.
Meet TABATHA THOMPSON III

The flying People

There have been quite a few people asking my recently how I achieved the final results of an older ad campaign for a client of mine. This campaign recently made a few waves for winning an award in the 2008 Applied Arts visual communications magazine.

Here is one of the final images from the series.


A magician never reveals his tricks but seeing as we are not reinventing the "Photoshop wheel" here i think it's fine to show the steps in getting to the final image. Here we can see Mike waiting on an apple box for the green light to jump.


After many attempts and angle changes we find the perspective to get a cool shot while still seeing the garment. Not an easy task that actually involved Mike "lightly missing" his crash pad a few times... Here was the shot that ended up making the final select.


Next came shooting Katherine. She was photographed completely separate for the obvious reason that the crash pad would have blocked about half of her. We can also see Blain giving her a light "kick" with the reflector just to clean things up a bit.


Lastly I shoot the "empty scene" with the door closed. The building owners would not let us keep it closed for the span it took to take these shots (probably a wapping 20 min...) So that just meant an extra hour in post...


So those 3 shots get put together in Photoshop and then from there things are cleaned up and altered a little. Notice the name of the building and the A Louer "for rent" sign.

Here was a short "Making of" done by the client. You can check out the whole series on my site in the Fashion section.