chrisrivera

Mind the Birds

"Free your mind from comparing yourself to anyone. You are a priceless original that brings something to the world"

~Unknown...
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"Free your mind from comparing yourself to anyone. You are a priceless original that brings something to the world"

~Unknown
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Canon EOS REBEL T2i

settings

Aperture f/2.5 ISO 200 Shutter 1/1250

upload_date

Mar, 2014

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7182

Likes

+413

Awards

Action Award

Chatter Award

Zenith Award

Creative Winter Award

Curator's Selection

Top Shot Award 21

Legendary Award

Member Selection Award

Contest Finalist

Pocket Tripod and more!

Contest Finalist in Double Exposure Photo Contest by Pocket Tripod

Outstanding Creativity

+174

Peer Award

+47

Absolute Masterpiece

+42

Superb Composition

+33

Top Choice

+29

Jaw Dropping

One Of A Kind

Master Editing

Superior Skill

All Star

Genius

Great Find

Exceptional Contrast

Magnificent Capture

Emotions

Impressed

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Congrats on your finalist award.

Thank you so much! I'm so excited!

Very creative!

Thank you very much Lito! :)

Wow... The best I've seen... congrats :d

You are too sweet! :) Thank you so much!

PRO+

Wonderfully creative! Congratulations!

Thank you very much friend! :)

PRO+

Congrats on your win! Well deserved!

Thank you so much Jan!

Amazing ..Congratulations..!

Thank you very much Beth!

congratulations! very creative!

Thank you kindly!

Brilliant,congrats on your win!

Thank you so much Jo! :D

nice work, congrats on your win

Thank you so much Ron! It really means a ton!

Is that Novak Djokovic's profile? :)

No. This is my friend Michael's profile! He has superb features that I couldn't pass up!

This is awesome!

Thanks heaps Jason!

Congratulations on being the Winner.

Why thank you very much Alan! :)

One of THE best shots I've ever seen using double exposure. Well done :) Love it :)

Why thank you so much Leroy! It really means so much to me that you think so friend! :)

Congratulations, I didn't see this one before, very nice creativity, well done!!!

Mind blasting man!! ;) you do have a creative head:) you are such an inspiration. i'm excited to do something like this marvelous pic.

Thank you so much Charlie! :) You are too kind! I would LOVE to see what you create with yours! :)

Congrats on your win.

Thanks so much!!!

Hola Chris, very creative image, nice concept. Well deserved, congratulations.

Hola Vilma! Thank you so much for the kind words!

AWESOME

THANKS! :D

Congratulations!

Thank you!!

Fantastic job!

Thank you so much Greg! It means a million!

congrats, great work ;)

Thank you so much friend! :)

Brilliant!!

Thank you so much!

love it! congrats!

Thank you kindly Ingrid!

AWSM buddy :-)

Thanks! :)

Felicidades!!!

Thank you very much!

Platinum

Now this is impressive work!! Well done and congratulations.
I guess you're not a birdbrain! Lol

HOLY CRAP CHRIS WHY HAVENT I SEEN THIS

AW SHUCKS COLTON, you're a million my friend! :)

PRO+

Fabulous creativity.....Brilliant

Thank you so much Louise!

fantastica

Thank you Elia!

Can u give me link of town photo?

The town photo is mine as well.

Omg this is amazing!

You are too kind! :)

cool love it shame the birds are bit blured but the concept is great

Thanks! Note taken, but I blurred the birds on purpose, as they were not the main subject of this photo.

Wow what a great, thought provoking image. Congratulations!

You are so kind: thank you so much!@

This is just creativity at it's best mate.
Hats off to you!
Just WOW!

Wow! Thank you so much for the super nice compliment mate! :)

Incredible! Outstanding image!

Well deserved award. Congratulations.

Stunning creative editing....well done and congrats!....Brian

Exceptional
Mind bogling
Boombastic
*_*

Amazing! If this doesn't end up as artwork for a musicians album I would be shocked. Fantastic Work!

perfect

Love it :)

Excellent job, I really love this photographs on so many levels. Well done!

This is a difficult technique. It's interesting that you don't see all the details the first time you look at this photo. Congratulations.

That's cool, really conceptual. I wrote some interpreteation around this photo on my instagram.com/movhdi page, but it is in persian.

Congratulations :) Awesome concept here.

Thats so amazing!!
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Behind The Lens

Location

Since this photo is a multiple exposure from two images I captured, they were both taken in the Los Angeles area: the portrait silhouette was taken at the Griffith Observatory in Hollywood, while the cityscape was taken in downtown!

Time

At the time that I shot the images, I would only shoot photos in the afternoon, especially near sunset time! The portrait was definitely taken during a brilliant sunset, while the buildings were captured at the same time, but a different day.

Lighting

For the portrait image in this multiple exposure, I was particularly happy with how the sunset showed. There were bright areas around the subject, which made it easier to work with. Even with the highlights, there were still some clouds to complete the textured look of the photo!

Equipment

For this photo, I used my Canon Rebel T2i and my still trusty 50mm f/1.4 lens and that's it! No other equipment was uses, besides photoshop, of course!

Inspiration

Nothing inspired me to take these two images when I took them, but I was inspired to merge them together after I decided to spice things up in my Instagram feed. Most of my photos at that time were grand scenes with something whimsical in them and I felt like a multiple exposure photo would be a nice mix up! I found this portrait from an Instagram meet-up I went to and went through some photos I thought I would want to use until I saw the cityscape, which I knew would instantly work!

Editing

I used Adobe Photoshop for my post-processing to merge the two images into one, using a variety of layer masks, curves adjustments and blending modes! For the above photo, I layered the buildings over the profile and created a layer mask to get rid of both the sky and the part of the subject's head to reveal the clouds in the base.

In my camera bag

Well, thank goodness I got a camera upgrade and I now shoot with a Canon 6D, but still have my 50mm f/1.4 as well as a 24-105mm f/4! I like to have a polaroid to make a memory of a shoot and have tools that help make creative SOOC images (prisms, for example). Oh, and a fully charge battery and empty memory cards help as well!

Feedback

Oh yes, there are definitely some points that I should point out when creating an image like this: avoid distractions when shooting the profile silhouette and under/over expose! Whether the distraction is another person or a building, I've found it easier to shoot against just the sky (with clouds makes for genius results) and not having any big distractions in the portrait. Over and under exposing helps getting the absolute shadows and absolute highlights for an image, making blending modes easier to work with.

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Mind the Birds

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