Articles in the Technique Category
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It’s that time of year again when the Pirelli Calendar is launched.
The video of the behind the scenes is very interesting, look at the size of the team that it takes.
Mario Sorrenti creates a very serene yet powerful series of images – underlines the importance of creating the environment for a photoshoot.
You can also see Kate Moss, Lara Stone, Natasha Poly, Milla Jovovich working as models which is also very interesting.
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Working with Mary Addison from “Gunpowder, Treason and Plot” we’ve been building some cinematographs. These are still images which just a hint, or a great dollop of movement.
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Shooting with Jude Windmill, a very proficient dancer and model, I wanted to put together a stage set that Jude could improvise around. Of course I only thought of this mid-shoot!
So I used three poly boards (normally used for reflectors etc), a bit of lighting to give each board a different tonal range and off we went.
Sometimes the simple can be very effective.
In post I did clean up the edges (and straighten them) on my preferred images. The collection below is a bit of a random sample.
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You are probably familiar with the idea of stitching multiple photographs together to make a panoramic image. This is the same thing just done in the studio (or actually the Grunge Room).
The first image is the raw stitch, not quite aligned and with a bit of a drift.
Second image has had a bit of free transform and correction done to it.
Then we use Polar Co-ordinates distortion to turn it into a sphere.
You can do it head first or feet first.
The above series was shot with Brodie Lock (a little …
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These always sound so easy. Fix your camera on the tripod, take a bunch of shots with the model moving into different positions. Whap ‘em in photoshop, mask out what you don’t need.
In practice it takes far more photoshop time than you would expect, getting things to line up properly, to take care of shadows, watching out for overlapping bits, careful trimming of cut-outs. I shoot them enthusiastically and get really fed up with them about half-way through the post as I realise how many hours I’ve put in.
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