I know a lot of photographers that have one backdrop (white) and then use digital backdrops to make the photo. I am clearly doing something wrong... please help! :) Thank you!!
Help on blending the two together. I feel like you can really tell these are two photographs pasted together, but I don't know why I feel like that. I can't put my finger on what is "off".
@nicolekos . I think you may be being to hard on yourself. It looks one photo to me, but then again Im blind with very filthy glasses :)
How did you blend them?
I use the transparency mask tools when doing this kind of blending.
could it be that the depth of color in the baby is stronger than the background and you can upon real close inspection get that clear "cut" feel about it... does that make sense??
You need to match the exposure and lighting of the background to the subject, the easiest way to do it if the shadows are already believable is to adjust the background at the end until it looks just right for brightness...
For the cutting a very slight feathering on the selection can help with the over sharp edges, if you zoom in on a single image you can see that even the clearest of lines have a very slight gradient to them... 1-3 pixels should do, also for the likes of hair stray hairs and other little details make a big difference...
For this image it looks like the depth of colour is the main difference, though the baby is really clearly cut...
The only thing I can add to what Adam has said is that it seems the DOF is off. The backdrop is more blurred than it should be based on: (a) Your subject is sharp front-to-back; and (b) Your subject-to-background distance is quite small. So it looks like a shallow DOF shot (background) mixed with a standard DOF shot (subject).
I dabbled in digital backdrops a couple of years ago when we had some extra cash in our budget at the end of the year and bought green / blue screens and some digital-backdrop-specific software. I was never happy with the results. I stick with actual physical backdrops now.
@Cherrill - sorry me bad. I'll be serious now. You can see on the darker side of the little girl (her right, our left) that it looks a little like an edge, but other than that, it looks pretty good. I have never manipulated a photo like this so I have little to no experience.
oh i hate digital background! but i asked my friend who's a digital manipulator, usually people cut the subject paste it on a background and TADAH! there it is, but what he does is he paste the background instead on the subject. i dunno how he does it?! hahahah
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How did you blend them?
I use the transparency mask tools when doing this kind of blending.
could it be that the depth of color in the baby is stronger than the background and you can upon real close inspection get that clear "cut" feel about it... does that make sense??
For the cutting a very slight feathering on the selection can help with the over sharp edges, if you zoom in on a single image you can see that even the clearest of lines have a very slight gradient to them... 1-3 pixels should do, also for the likes of hair stray hairs and other little details make a big difference...
For this image it looks like the depth of colour is the main difference, though the baby is really clearly cut...
I dabbled in digital backdrops a couple of years ago when we had some extra cash in our budget at the end of the year and bought green / blue screens and some digital-backdrop-specific software. I was never happy with the results. I stick with actual physical backdrops now.