Dave Frost Photography - Canvey Island » manipulation http://www.davefrost.co.uk Photography from Canvey Island photographer Camera, Photos and words Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:43:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Trapped http://www.davefrost.co.uk/2012/01/trapped/ http://www.davefrost.co.uk/2012/01/trapped/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:50:59 +0000 Dave Frost http://www.davefrost.co.uk/?p=778 Continue reading →]]> It’s a bit early in the year for negative thoughts !!! – Not really sure why I did this, but stumbled across an online Photoshop Tutorial and thought I’d have a crack at it. Was a lot more difficult than the 4 step tutorial suggested to try and make the final image look less like a cut and paste job than I ended up with. Image processing remains a bit of a sticking point for me, and I despair that I’ll ever really be able to do it without butchering the original file. So, for now (and this is the closest I’m likely to get to a new years resolution) I think I’ll have to stick with trying to get things ‘right’ in camera and keep the processing to a minimum.

Trapped !!

This isn’t the tutorial I used (in fact I wish I’d found this one before) but if anyone else fancies a crack at it there’s a useful step by step you can find simply by clicking this link clicking here

]]> http://www.davefrost.co.uk/2012/01/trapped/feed/ 3 Me, Myself and I http://www.davefrost.co.uk/2009/10/me-myself-and-i/ http://www.davefrost.co.uk/2009/10/me-myself-and-i/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:06:38 +0000 Dave Frost http://www.davefrost.co.uk/?p=166 Continue reading →]]> It’s been a while since I posted any pictures of me, or indeed pictures with me in them. This is partly because I’m usually the other side of the camera, and partly because I’m such an ugly barsteward. I’ve been thinking about a shot like this for ages, and today, finally got round to having a play. The edit was a quick and dirty one as a proof of concept, but I’m quite pleased with the way it turned out under the circumstances.
Set up wise it’s fairly straightforward all you need really is a tripod, but in this case I also used a Speedlight 430EX.
Settings should be manual, this helps to ensure that the exposure is the same for each shot which in turn makes it easier to blend post production. (fortunately it’s a grey day so didn’t need to worry about changes in ambient light as the sun went in and out).
To take the pictures, I set the camera on timer, pressed the button and adopted my poses. OK, was a bit of running about, but hey, I need the excercise.
Once taken the three pictures were imported into Adobe RAW, and all given the same, desaturated treatment.
Then, I opened them all in photoshop, and copied two as new layers into the third one.
Thereafter, it was simply a matter of using the eraser tool to remove the bits I didn’t want and reveal the “me” underneath.
Job done.
The 3 stages of the Day

Was all good fun, and I managed to convince the kids that my brothers had popped round while they were at school. Confused the hell out of them as they know that I have no brothers.

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