When out and about taking pictures of the Ancient Bones Dance Theater gals at Fontainbleu State Park, I was reminded of some photos where the photographer would blend the colors of the subject's clothing with the beach, horizon, and sky. With that in mind, I took a few shots in that vein specifically for the challenge of "Subject Mimics Background."
Look, in some cases I'm sure the photographer can prepare for such a shoot and say, "I'm going to have blue jeans to match the water, and then aqua blue to match the sky, and I'm going to shoot over here so that the jeans end where the beach sand begins..." but the reality is that in the vast majority of cases there's a lot of digital manipulation to fudge the details to finally match up just right.
In this case, I made sure to get the horizon line to line up with the skirt at the waist. From there I knew I could match colors between the clothing, veil, background and foreground.
For the sky, I slightly changed the already pinkish-reddish color of the clouds to match the hot pink hue of the veil but also tried to match the deep blue in the upper part of the sky with the remaining blue of the veil as well. Further down on the horizon I changed the glow of the setting sun to match the color of her sequins around her waist line. I then warped the veil slightly to match the flow of the clouds--in a way the upper flow of the veil continues into the clouds which I thought was a happy occurrence. Finally, I changed the highlights of her skirt to match the color of the sand and blended the pink hues of the veil to slightly bleed into the color of the sand as it got closer to the bottom.
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Model: Lizzie Louise
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Let's take a little look at how some of the Wizards in the Harry Potter universe are absolute jerks. Of course, this is all in good fun, but I want to take a look at the behavior and piggishness that Wizards have in this Potterverse. I mean, if they existed along with us here, they'd have a lot of explaining to do.
Creative 52, Week 29: Shoot a Very High-Key Image
High-key photography, damn near blowing out your image with copious amounts of light. Make your subject look like a pretty angel coming through heaven’s gate or something.
For this image I wanted to do a slight combination of high-key with low-key elements. By that, I mean, I wanted to put some form of viking face paint on the upper part of my face so I could later overlay an image of stars, the galaxy, or something of that nature. I wasn’t quite sure what yet. My girlfriend helped me with the makeup and even did an initial splatter spray of white on my forehead for texture and added pizzazz.
I wanted to wear a suit for this because you usually don’t see vikings in suits and I wanted to be a Work Viking…Assistant to the Regional Viking.
To make the blown out effect I hung up a white sheet in a doorway. Behind that sheet I put two softboxes with two 100 watt bulbs each to the side. I put two large LED worklights down a bit lower. ...
Creative 52, Week 28: Shoot a Very Low-Key Image
10/14/2021
Low-key in photography doesn’t mean relaxed, chilled out, and soft spoken. Low-key simply means that the emphasis is on the shadows, on the darks. Whereas high-key is all bright and damn near blown out, low-key has crushed blacks and is all mysterious. Perfect for getting close to Halloween, right?
Well, Gina was shooting a video for an upcoming belly dance gathering and was dressed like a witchy crone named Cailleach, a divine hag and Queen of Winter. She had a cool twiggy head band and some matching make-up; plus, we just finished watching this movie, Censor, which had this cool lighting theme all throughout. So, we decided to shoot this low-key image and video using only colored video lights…no strobes. The lighting was inspired by Censor and another movie called Mandy. Both movies are worth checking out.
This whole thing was a challenge because I really wanted to utilize the sharpness and look that I get with my ...
Collective Isolation
I have a strip of 75mm film I use for a bookmark and recently I was admiring just how damn cool it was. And then I was walking past these windows that look out upon the Mississippi River levee. In a way, this section of windows, framed by the support poles, reminded me of that 75mm film strip.
People, for the most part, tend to mind their own business. It's why we can go out to a restaurant with a loved one and pretend that we're not in a big room with dozens of other couples also pretending that no one else is around. When I set up my camera to take these pictures I decided to capture little frames of people minding their own business. So, no, I didn't want to "Shoot a Frame Within a Frame" using shadows or doorways; I wanted to use the entire wall of windows as a frame to separate interactions, use the lower section of windows to frame individuals going about their business while ignoring others, the upper part of the windows to frame birds flying together in ...
