myacreative
11-13-2009, 05:21 PM
Couple people asked me to share this when they found out that it wasnt all one photo. I'll try and explain it the best I can.... I'm horrible at explaining things lol. Its 3 rig shots taken from the same spot, same day, same everything except shutter speeds.
The PSD for this shot is 260mb. Took me like 3 hours to edit this (with my ADD lol)
Here it goes...hope I don't confuse you to much.
1- Started with my base image. Colors and such were done in Lightroom then brought into Photoshop.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2781/4101154125_c65ee0d5c8_b.jpg
2- I used a second picture to get the reflections of the windows back since they were blown out and ugly (IMO) in the other shot. I used a layer mask and the brush tool to erase the rest of the image except the window.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2726/4101154287_538a1820ca_b.jpg
3- Very minimal edit... I wanted the BBK to POP more since thats why we shot from this angle... I selected that area on the original photo...copied the selection and pasted it to a new layer. Then used the brightness-contrast-saturation to make it pop a little more.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2790/4101154365_737b541691_b.jpg
4- Next up was the road. I liked this road a lot from ANOTHER (3rd) photo from this shoot so I laid it down over my previous work and added a LAYER MASK to it. I used the brush tools like I did previously to erase everything of the image except the road.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2638/4101913788_df678488d8_b.jpg
5- Then I found a background that had the blur effect I wanted (again, from the same shoot, same day, time, place, rig set up, just slower shutter speed = more blur) and I layered that over everything else, used the layer mask and brush tools to erase everything but the new background.
(some like this road better then the one I chose...looking at it now... I'm torn. This one is cleaner..but for some reason I like the other one. thought? maybe I'll do anther edit and use this one and see what ppl think)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2674/4101159013_e1e5e0e6e4_b.jpg
6- Next I used the CLONE tool to edit out the rig pole and some reflections of the rig/camera/me. Played with the new road contrast/birghtness/sharpness settings and basically have a finished image now.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2711/4101913948_79f2a0e658_b.jpg
7- BUT.... I didn't really like the holes in the trees in the background so I duplicated my background layer to make a new one, and used the clone tool again to fill in those spots. I like the full background much more. Then I played with the contrast/saturation/brightness of the new background to give it a little more pop and color to it.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2610/4101914034_83d789795a_b.jpg
8- After all of that I was pretty much done. Did some minor sharpening and color tweaking to each layer individually and some cleaning up of the clones and layer masks. The last thing I do is create a new layer and add a border to that. Then make my signature and add that to the image as well. Then export and whore around!
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2670/4101159321_8e4b6b1508_b.jpg
Hope that was some one helpful, interesting, exciting, or something. Probably pretty boring and confusing though lol. Thats a glimpse of what goes into a rig shot. Not all of them are that complex. Usually they are pretty simple but I really wanted to put some time and work into this one to get the best image I could, in my eyes.
:beer:
oh and im working on taking that stupid black line out from behind the car. its a pain in the ass tho for some reason lol.
The PSD for this shot is 260mb. Took me like 3 hours to edit this (with my ADD lol)
Here it goes...hope I don't confuse you to much.
1- Started with my base image. Colors and such were done in Lightroom then brought into Photoshop.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2781/4101154125_c65ee0d5c8_b.jpg
2- I used a second picture to get the reflections of the windows back since they were blown out and ugly (IMO) in the other shot. I used a layer mask and the brush tool to erase the rest of the image except the window.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2726/4101154287_538a1820ca_b.jpg
3- Very minimal edit... I wanted the BBK to POP more since thats why we shot from this angle... I selected that area on the original photo...copied the selection and pasted it to a new layer. Then used the brightness-contrast-saturation to make it pop a little more.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2790/4101154365_737b541691_b.jpg
4- Next up was the road. I liked this road a lot from ANOTHER (3rd) photo from this shoot so I laid it down over my previous work and added a LAYER MASK to it. I used the brush tools like I did previously to erase everything of the image except the road.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2638/4101913788_df678488d8_b.jpg
5- Then I found a background that had the blur effect I wanted (again, from the same shoot, same day, time, place, rig set up, just slower shutter speed = more blur) and I layered that over everything else, used the layer mask and brush tools to erase everything but the new background.
(some like this road better then the one I chose...looking at it now... I'm torn. This one is cleaner..but for some reason I like the other one. thought? maybe I'll do anther edit and use this one and see what ppl think)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2674/4101159013_e1e5e0e6e4_b.jpg
6- Next I used the CLONE tool to edit out the rig pole and some reflections of the rig/camera/me. Played with the new road contrast/birghtness/sharpness settings and basically have a finished image now.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2711/4101913948_79f2a0e658_b.jpg
7- BUT.... I didn't really like the holes in the trees in the background so I duplicated my background layer to make a new one, and used the clone tool again to fill in those spots. I like the full background much more. Then I played with the contrast/saturation/brightness of the new background to give it a little more pop and color to it.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2610/4101914034_83d789795a_b.jpg
8- After all of that I was pretty much done. Did some minor sharpening and color tweaking to each layer individually and some cleaning up of the clones and layer masks. The last thing I do is create a new layer and add a border to that. Then make my signature and add that to the image as well. Then export and whore around!
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2670/4101159321_8e4b6b1508_b.jpg
Hope that was some one helpful, interesting, exciting, or something. Probably pretty boring and confusing though lol. Thats a glimpse of what goes into a rig shot. Not all of them are that complex. Usually they are pretty simple but I really wanted to put some time and work into this one to get the best image I could, in my eyes.
:beer:
oh and im working on taking that stupid black line out from behind the car. its a pain in the ass tho for some reason lol.