Feb
21
This is my re-creation of a photo concept that I had seen done before and wanted to take it and put my own spin on it. I wanted to make it a more whimsical feeling of magic to the scene portraying that the child’s imagination is running wild and is bringing the story to life.
Some of the components in the scene like the chair, cabinet and lamp were reused from the original photo. This is more of a composition project with elements being photographed individually like the room, floor, play chest, drawer panels, baseboard and then integrated each one into the photo one by one to build the environment. Other elements were taken from stock photos and finally the characters were taken from rendered wallpapers to give it a more animated feel. I didn’t want to go too dark with the characters coming out of the shadows because I didn’t want to create a creepy “child’s play” effect. Lol I don’t want to traumatize her just yet. The photo of Savannah was taken with the softbox angled up at 45 degrees to to emulate the light source emitted from the book and the rest of the smoke, mist, flares & character shadows were created in post production.
Overall I’m quite happy with the final image and hope that it looks believable and portrays the feel that I was trying to create!
Jan
26
Today another photo of mine “Absolut Zest” was one of the featured images critiqued over at www.slrlounge.com. Click here and skip to the 0:50 mark to see what they had to say about it!
Jan
10
This photo is a concept ad I did for Absolut Mandrin Vodka executed in their typical marketing style. It was shot in a studio with a white backdrop and a strobe with 3′ softbox overhead. I used some large black and white cards to the left and right side of the bottle to reflect the “colour” back onto the bottle to enhance the frosted look while creating more dimension to the shot. I did multiple exposures with the camera on a tripod using trigger release in order to have all of the elements such as the lid, seal, label, fruit be evenly exposed while maintaining as much detail as I could. I used a 70-200mm F2.8 lens @ 102mm to create a bit more compression in the shot and to minimize any distortion to the bottle and props. In post production I chopped it all together to create the final image:
Dec
20
Recently a client asked me to do some post production work on a photo that was taken at his wedding covered by another photographer. During the first dance, the guests surrounded the couple on the dance floor and lit sparklers. He loved the mood of the image and asked me if there was a way to enhance the glows of the sparklers and make the photo more “epic” so that he could print it in a large format. Epic was what he wanted so I used the RAW unedited file and I increased the effect of the sparklers, enhanced the shadows to isolate and bring focus to the couple and finally, did some colour treatments and removed some distracting components of the scene. Here is the before and after of the photo after I finished post production.
Jun
21
Lately I’ve been pretty flat out with work and freelance projects to dabble in my own work. I’ve been wanting to do a photo manipulation of Savannah for a while now. I was inspired with this concept from the cute nickname that my wife Natashia came up with – Savatar. She’s been growing so quickly these days and is developing her voice and motor skills.
So if James Cameron decides to follow up with a sequel to his block buster movie, I have the perfect up and coming star and copyright to the title: Savatar
When my dad saw the picture he said, “I hope it is only a photoshop job and that you did not paint her blue!!!”
I replied with, “Of course not… I’m not that stupid… paint would be toxic… I used blue dye instead…”
Well if the movie industry doesn’t work out for her I’m sure the Blue Man Group are hiring… 😉