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Photo Shoot #2 - Creating a Dynamic Composite

Lesson 31 from: Creating a Fine Art Series

Brooke Shaden

Photo Shoot #2 - Creating a Dynamic Composite

Lesson 31 from: Creating a Fine Art Series

Brooke Shaden

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Lesson Info

31. Photo Shoot #2 - Creating a Dynamic Composite

Lessons

Class Trailer
1

Class Introduction

07:25
2

Overview of Brooke’s Journey

20:13
3

Your Timeline is Nonlinear

05:37
4

Using Curiosity and Intention to Build Your Career

03:26
5

What Factors Dictate Growth

08:24
6

Organic Growth vs. Forced Growth

05:18
7

Niche Branding

04:57
8

Brooke’s Artistic Evolution and Timeline

24:27
9

How Can You Get Ahead if You Feel Behind?

10:02
10

Ideation and Conceptualization to Identify Meaning in Your Art

05:54
11

Idea Fluency

10:33
12

How to Represent an Idea

07:01
13

How to Innovate an Idea

07:07
14

Creating a Dialogue With Your Art

05:48
15

Conceptualization For a Series vs. a Single Image

03:43
16

Transforming a Single Image Into a Series

03:12
17

How to Tell a Story in a Series

03:28
18

How to Create Costumes From Fabric

07:20
19

Brooke’s Most Useful Costumes

02:19
20

Using Paint and Clay as Texture in an Image

02:56
21

Create Physical Elements in an Image

10:22
22

Shooting for a Fine Art Series

05:45
23

Conceptualization: Flowery Fish Bowl in the Desert

04:08
24

Wardrobe and Texture

04:54
25

Posing for the Story

05:32
26

Choosing an Image

01:23
27

Conceptualization: Rainy Plexiglass

11:34
28

Posing for the Story

04:17
29

Creating Backlight

02:37
30

Photo Shoot #1 - Creating a Simple Composite

17:51
31

Photo Shoot #2 - Creating a Dynamic Composite

06:31
32

Photo Shoot #3 - Creating a Storytelling Composite

07:40
33

Shooting the Background Images

06:14
34

Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Working With Backgrounds

24:35
35

Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Retouching the Subject

04:20
36

Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Color Grading

02:45
37

Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Floor Replacement Texture

15:24
38

Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Final Adjustments

03:21
39

Editing Samsara Shoot #2 - Cropping and Editing Backgrounds

05:25
40

Editing Samsara Shoot #2 - Selective Adjustments

03:55
41

Editing Samsara Shoot #2 - Adding Texture + Fine Tuning

03:21
42

Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Compositing Models

06:58
43

Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Expanding Rooms

02:17
44

Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Selective Color

02:47
45

Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Selective Exposure

04:04
46

Editing Composite Shoot #2- Masking Into Backgrounds

10:45
47

Editing Composite Shoot #2- Creating Rooms in Photoshop

06:11
48

Editing Composite Shoot #2- Compositing Hair

05:07
49

Editing Composite Shoot #2- Global Adjustments

04:49
50

Editing Composite Shoot #3- Blending Composite Elements

05:00
51

Editing Composite Shoot #3- Advanced Compositing

08:46
52

Editing Composite Shoot #3- Cleanup

03:34
53

Materials for Alternative Processes

06:20
54

Oil Painting on Prints

05:41
55

Encaustic Wax on Prints

03:09
56

Failure vs. Sell Out

05:14
57

Create Art You Love and Bring an Audience To You

03:35
58

Branding Yourself Into a Story

05:40
59

The Artistic Narrative

05:26
60

Get People to Care About Your Story

03:36
61

Get People to Buy Your Story

11:36
62

Getting Galleries and Publishers to Take Notice

03:41
63

Pricing For Commissions

06:43
64

Original Prints vs. Limited Edition Prints vs. Open Edition Prints

02:11
65

Class Outro

01:00
66

Live Premiere

16:14
67

Live Premiere: Layers of Depth 1

04:41
68

Live Premiere: Layers of Depth 2

07:12
69

Live Premiere: Q&A

16:10
70

Live Premiere: Photo Critique

47:33

Lesson Info

Photo Shoot #2 - Creating a Dynamic Composite

Okay, so I feel really good about that set of images. That was all One image. Essentially. So we've got the main shot of the candles, and then we've got the dress on. We've got the hair and that's it for that shot. So now I'm going to do my full hair picture. And I just mentioned that I, you know, you gotta obey the laws of physics. Hair wouldn't be standing straight up, right? But if you are knowingly bending the laws of physics and you are positive that that's what you want to do because that's the surreal part of your photo, then go for it. So for this picture, my hair is gonna be spread all the way around, Uh, the backdrop here, which will be a wall eventually. There's a little trick to this, and that is that either I need to take my main shot with my hair pulled up so that I get a really clean neck. I wanna make sure that you see my neck, because if I take a picture of myself standing like this, but then in another shot, my hair is up like that, it's going to make no sense So that...

's what I am trying to dio is to make totally sure that it makes sense. So if you're bending the laws of physics, then you have to still figure out if it's going to work to the person's mind, that's viewing it. Let's go see if we can get our main shop for the hair pictures, and this is going to be, ah, little bit more challenging to get that main shocks. I won't just be standing still. My hair is going to be moving, but we'll see how it goes, all right, I'm just going to stand as though this is a wall, because it will be eventually and it's pretty sturdy. But it moves, so as long as I don't crash into it, it should be okay. I do want to make it look like my hair is climbing up the wall, so I wanna make sure that my hair connects with the backdrop when I flip it up. This is going to be really important for natural shadows that will fall on the backdrop later on and editing. So I don't have to recreate that because when you think about compositing often you think about shadows. Something in an image is not grounded. It doesn't look like it's really there unless there it's creating a shadow somewhere on the surrounding. So I wanna make sure that the hair is touching the wall and it's creating natural shadows. So let's see about this official Maine shot. I'm going to go from the side, Okay? We'll see how that looks. Now. That was not, um, particularly good is a main shot, I think so. We'll call that a test shot because I wasn't really posed, and I can see that I have some motion blur here. So I'm going to adjust my settings to go up from 2 50 for my shutter speed, going to go up Thio 400 here and take my eyes so up to compensate to about 2000. So let's do another shot. And the problem with what I just did was that I wasn't posing my body. I was just focused on the hair, and this is the difficulty of self portraiture is that you have to think about all the different components at once, so I think I'm going to try one more time. But I'm going to try to pose my body how I want it. I need to think about what that's going to be. So I want my arms out. Do I want them in? Do I want TEM hidden? What am I going to Dio? So I'm going to try to keep my arms in so that they're hidden to start and we'll just see how that looks. And I caught my hair in my armpits, so I'll try again. We'll see. Okay, we got one decent shot, maybe even two, so it looks pretty good. I'm going to a just a couple of things. I'm gonna keep my feet together because my feet were definitely not quite so graceful in that shot. So I'm gonna make sure that I keep my feet together and we'll try again. This time, I will keep my arms out, or at least one so that there's a little bit more context of the body and reset the camera, and it's going to do this a few more times. Okay, Now, what I'm not doing very well is getting my hair to hit the backdrop. So I'm gonna really fling it this time. I'm not gonna worry about my body as much. Did you see how it really hit that time? That's what I want. And we'll do it from the other side because we're going to create a big fanning effect. Okay, let's check those. Oh, they look good. And I think we have enough to cover the entire area. So I'm pretty happy with ease. The only thing that I didn't get is one really good leg shot. So I'm going to try to get one perfect leg shot, which should be easy, because I just have to stand there, and then we should be pretty well finished with that that image. So I'm going to just tiptoe here with my really dirty feet, okay? And maybe I'll get some dress while I'm at it. I like to just get us many shots as I can when I think of it, because you never know when you're gonna want to use it. Might as well pose my feet at the same time. Okay, I think we got it. So that's going to be image number two

Class Materials

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Ratings and Reviews

a Creativelive Student
 

Brooke never fails to deliver. I found this course superb from start to finish. From exercising your creative 'muscle', demystifying taking self portraits, and showing that they don't have to be perfect before you begin editing, to walking you through her editing process and how to price your work. Brooke's enthusiastic personality and excitement about the work shines through it all. Definitely recommended!

Søren Nielsen
 

Thank for fantastic motivating an very inspiring. The story telling and selling module was very helpful - thanks from Denmark

Rebecca Potter
 

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Brooke for this amazing class. Inspired and so full of practical knowledge, this is the best class I've ever watched. You have given me the confidence to pursue what I've always been afraid to do. Watch this space!

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