Silent Storm

Getting setup for my last shoot, I thought I'd take a few test shots. shush, don't tell anyone. I wanted to play with some brushes as it's been a while since I dug them up in their dusty folders on my computer. A bit of Render Clouds, Lightning brushes and smoke brushes along with a composite background. Lit with Beauty dish boomed overhead and striplights on either side for the rim. Background light placed behind me and pointed at the background for som separation. Best part of using backgrounds in overlay blending mode is that they keep the overall lighting you had in the original image. If you had a background light on gray paper it will still appear to have the same background light in your composite! http://flic.kr/p/j4EUp7

Towards the Light

It's been a while since I've posted images because I've been so busy but that doesn't mean I haven't been taking them! Here's a fun Photoshop edit of David in between children at a school shoot. Playing around with some lighting effects (render lighting) and atmospherics fog(render clouds) with a touch of lens flare (render lens flare) Simple tools put to good use with a layers mask and a few tricks, compliments of Aaron Nace from Phlearn! Lit with a single x3200 super high and camera left with a grid to tighten the beam of the light. It was a long exposure to let the ambient light from the light fixtures in and worked well since David Jumped during the exposure. His transparency is not Photoshopped. http://flic.kr/p/hjmZjX