Happy new year everyone :-)

I hope you had a good slip into the new year 2009 and your party was cool with no injuries  :-)

Today’s post is also a brief tutorial, which is specially written for my friend Dave Aharonian, from Victoria, Canada.

He is a pro I had the honour and pleasure to meet during my stay at Joshua Tree, California last September.

So dear Dave, here you go, I show you how the above shot was made.
(click the image thumbnails to get bigger lightbox view)

We have Madame Bink at the “animal-party-house-wall” (remember, during the shot you have loaded your film in the kitchen :-))

Then we have an image of a sheet of paper, which we use later as a “light structure”

And then we have another image, taken from an aquarium with some bubbles.

We load these images in Photoshop and start with the work. We start with Madame Bink and do a clean-up, adjustments (light, colors, straighten) and some clone stamping to remove the bright light from the wall.  Then we flip the image 90° anti-clockwise. It then looks like shown below

Then we add the bubble image as a new layer and set the layer to “brighten” blending mode. It will look like this

After that we convert the image to B&W using the blue channel. The blue channel conversion gives a uniform grey skin tone with deeper blacks.

After that, we add the paper image as new layer and set the layer to “soft light” blending mode. It gives the image a kind of light shades, like the light that goes thru waves at the surface.

Finally we add another layer and choose a light warm greytone to give some calmness to the image

Voilá, that’s all. Simple, isn’t it?  :-)

Cheers,
Vernon Trent

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