Thanks to all for sending Sam to the PP with your views, comments and favs. I don't know which was more fun- having Sam pick out the poses or watching it all come together in post processing!
@milaniet This is a somewhat simple one- but even the more elaborate ones all start with the same foundation. Set your camera up on a tripod and use a fixed background. Don't move the camera or change the back ground. Instead choose a mobile subject and move it around the area you want in the picture. Each time you move your subject take a new shot. There may be programs out there now that automatically stack them, but I merge my photos one at a time. So in this case Sam's first step is the base shot and every other position is a new layer. The tricky part of the layers is knowing which part to erase and which to keep. So every time I added a new Sam, I had to erase the part of the layer that was covering up the previous Sams. In this picture there is the base shot and 5 layers. The hardest one was #4 where Sam is looking back at me. I had to make sure the right parts were showing (head, some of his torso and one arm) and the right parts were hidden (everything from the waste down basically)!
Very funny.
Thanks to all for sending Sam to the PP with your views, comments and favs. I don't know which was more fun- having Sam pick out the poses or watching it all come together in post processing!
@milaniet This is a somewhat simple one- but even the more elaborate ones all start with the same foundation. Set your camera up on a tripod and use a fixed background. Don't move the camera or change the back ground. Instead choose a mobile subject and move it around the area you want in the picture. Each time you move your subject take a new shot. There may be programs out there now that automatically stack them, but I merge my photos one at a time. So in this case Sam's first step is the base shot and every other position is a new layer. The tricky part of the layers is knowing which part to erase and which to keep. So every time I added a new Sam, I had to erase the part of the layer that was covering up the previous Sams. In this picture there is the base shot and 5 layers. The hardest one was #4 where Sam is looking back at me. I had to make sure the right parts were showing (head, some of his torso and one arm) and the right parts were hidden (everything from the waste down basically)!
@wendyfrost Thank you Wendy!
Thank you Kathy!
Thank you Kathy and thank you for the fav too!
Thanks Louise!
This was definitely a fun one to put together.