{"id":884,"date":"2009-03-23T08:39:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T14:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/?p=884"},"modified":"2009-03-23T08:39:54","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T14:39:54","slug":"comedian-alex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/comedian-alex\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedian Alex"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week at my studio class I had the chance to shoot a family of three.\u00ac\u2020 Once the little girl got tired, I was able to do some head shots of Alex. Turns out, he does improv, and has some great expressions. I put some of them together.<\/p>\n

\"Expressions\"<\/a><\/p>\n

He was a pretty funny guy. Anyway, we had pretty typical lighting for what we have been doing. Two photogenics strobes in light boxes. As typical, I don’t think the hair light was positioned correctly.\u00ac\u2020 They worked pretty well, but I think they are stronger as a group.<\/p>\n

I exported all the images out of Aperture, scaleing them down somewhat. Then I created a new document in photoshop.\u00ac\u2020 I opened all the head shots, then dragged them over to the new one. I created some guides to help me position the images.<\/p>\n

I then used the fx layers to create a stroke (middle I think) around each image, and the shadow fx too. I also decided to make it look like all the images were sitting on a page. I expanded the canvas, then created another layer I filled with white. Then I used the shadow fx on the old background layer that was now our inner page to make it stand out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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