It's been a while since I have been around here but I didn't want to just tap out when things get busy. Many of you who follow me know that I recently started my own business and with my wife's help it has been getting busy. It's always nice to have an 'assistant' who has a marketing degree and who has worked in the field for a few years to help out. She does the business stuff, I do the photography (at least for now). Anyway, as a result I have been a little distant because I still have 2 other jobs....blah blah....Enough of that. Here is a shot I took the other day and a few tips to achieve the same look.
This was shot with natural light from behind me (so it was falling dead on to the girl). The black cloth was a window 'scarf' that I got at Walmart. I had my assistant holding it out of view and set on a white background. Since I was in a tight space at the clients house, I had to do some manipulating in photoshop. This was actually a 'bulls-eye' shot with the girl in the dead center of the frame and the backdrop was not covering everything because I needed to get pretty wide (30mm on a DX camera). Therefore I whited out all the distracting stuff on both sides of the image and cloned out my assistants arms. From there I wanted more of a dynamic shot with the girl off centered so I did a 'color range' selection of the white and inverse my selection. I then copied that layer (which was only the girl) moved it onto a new plain white background and positioned her to the right of the picture......whala. Give it a try.
whenever i wanna have a plain white BG or do it high key, i always incraese the exposure on photoshop, increse some gamma a lil bit, then gradient map and poof...i have a plain white BG.. hihihi
@maceugenio Yea, that works too, but my main concern was to 'move' my subject off center. The exposure works well but then you need to be careful with your mask so you don't get halos around anything.
very simple: a white bedsheet at your wall, point an off camera flash behind the model on the white background to overexpose the sheet, point another flash (or flashes) on your model to illuminate them et voila, c'est tout
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It's been a while since I have been around here but I didn't want to just tap out when things get busy. Many of you who follow me know that I recently started my own business and with my wife's help it has been getting busy. It's always nice to have an 'assistant' who has a marketing degree and who has worked in the field for a few years to help out. She does the business stuff, I do the photography (at least for now). Anyway, as a result I have been a little distant because I still have 2 other jobs....blah blah....Enough of that. Here is a shot I took the other day and a few tips to achieve the same look.
This was shot with natural light from behind me (so it was falling dead on to the girl). The black cloth was a window 'scarf' that I got at Walmart. I had my assistant holding it out of view and set on a white background. Since I was in a tight space at the clients house, I had to do some manipulating in photoshop. This was actually a 'bulls-eye' shot with the girl in the dead center of the frame and the backdrop was not covering everything because I needed to get pretty wide (30mm on a DX camera). Therefore I whited out all the distracting stuff on both sides of the image and cloned out my assistants arms. From there I wanted more of a dynamic shot with the girl off centered so I did a 'color range' selection of the white and inverse my selection. I then copied that layer (which was only the girl) moved it onto a new plain white background and positioned her to the right of the picture......whala. Give it a try.