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Submission by =skullhuntre
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This is a club, if you want to comment or fav please do it on the original; here

Technical information:
Make: NIKON CORPORATION
Model: NIKON D50
Shutter Speed: 10/2500 second
F Number: F/8.0
Focal Length: 12 mm

Review: From any quick glance, this photo must seem like a mission to execute and boy it was. Basically the idea in these shots is to take a picture of a setting using a tripod. Then have the model step into the picture, pose, and take a second shot. So now you have 2 shots, the background and the model, if you flip back and forth quickly, it will appear as if the model has magically popped into the shot.

Post work: Here is the fun part. take the photo into photoshop and first open up the background shot you took. Now open up in a separate document the model shot. Copy and paste the model shot onto the background shot (Ctrl + A + Ctrl + C + select background document Ctrl + V). So now you should have 2 layers, the original background and the new model layer. Now with the model layer selected, simply use the eraser tool and cut out the different parts you don't want to have in the picture. For ease of use, you may use the opacity filters to see what you have left to erase and what you need without guessing. I HIGHLY recommended using the polygonal lasso tool and just clicking down to fine detail the parts you need to cut out for more realism and precision.

Now this photo was done by merging two photos together using that technique. Because I was shooting in an ambient setting and not a studio, the lighting changed quickly and the wall's were different colors. I'll skip the fuzz and cut straight to it: use the clone-stamp and patch tools generously, they can destroy or fix an image, its all up to how much you, well, abuse them.

For the final edit in black and white, I flattened the layers and work with the channel mixer in CS3 to get dark skin without destroying the wall textures. As for the weird texture in the upper center, its just a few mistakes I did using the clone stamp that actually looked good and made it seem like a broken wall thus emphasizing a non-studio created piece of work ;)

Experiment; Photoshop is meant to be a tool to aid imagination, not mask it

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