The Hand
Peace, love, war, hate, friendship
Peace, love, war, hate, friendship
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Behind The Lens
Location
Home StudioTime
AfternoonLighting
Natural Lighting and my cameras built in flash.Equipment
Canon EOS 1000D 18-55mm standard lens.Inspiration
I was inspired by seeing a similar style manipulation which had been done in colour with different finger tops.Editing
I edited this image in Photo shop CS2. I started with 6 photographs of my hand (1 photo of my hand with my fingers spread and 5 photos of my hand doing the varies hand gestures) All 6 where taken in front of a black back drop and all where shot in black and white. I then removed the background on each photo of a hand gesture so they all had a transparent background. Once all five had the backgrounds removed I then shrank them down (to roughly the size of my finger tips in spread hand photo) Once they were all to scale I placed each hand gesture on top of the finger where I wanted it to sit. I then rotated and angled each hand gesture so it was aligned with the direction of the finger it sat on. To blend them to the top of each finger I used the cloning tool with a small blurred brush and one by one blended each hand gesture to its finger. Once they were all blended together I merged my layers. Once merged I duplicated the layer. On the duplicate layer of the now flattened manipulation I enchanced the brightness and contrast. I then duplicated the layer where I had just adjusted the brightness and contrast and changed my layer option to overlay and reduced the opacity to around 50-60%.In my camera bag
Canon EOS 1000D 18-55mm lens, Tameron 70-300mm lens, 8ND filter and UV filter.Feedback
Shoot in black and white. For a manipulation like this it alot easier to colour match and blend when your editting them together if you have shot them in black and white as there are less.
