Investment Advisor Cover
The above image was used on the cover of the January 2010 issue of Investment Advisor (as if you couldn’t read).
I’m not big on compositing. I tend to like straight photography (although, now days you never can be too sure). Whenever I see a photographer who does those big time 52 images to make one image, I’m never really impressed. But, a lot of times I’ll go to the “personal work” section of their website and see straight images that I like.
Since I don’t do much compositing, I’m obviously not that adept at it. The above image probably maxed out my compositing skills (and yes, I know there is literally no easier image to composite that than putting two people against the same backdrop together). If I ever get called on to do some images that require heavy compositing, I’ll definitely be outsourcing to a retoucher.
Here are the two separate images.
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Was the background for the composite shot as a blank? If you’d be so kind, what was your lighting diagram.
The two shots at the bottom of the post were the shots I used for the combined shot. I literally just opened both images in Photoshop, dragged the guy on the right onto the guy on the left’s image and then created a mask on the layer hiding everything but the guy on the right. The light and backdrop were identical so that’s pretty much all it took. I had to do a bit of dodging/burning on part of the backdrop in the middle to make it perfect, but not much.
The lighting was simple, large softbox directly overhead.