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Tree-people-01

Sometimes a tree resembles form-charactaristics of humans. When I recognised this I started to photograph these trees and to combine them with studioshots of pe...
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Sometimes a tree resembles form-charactaristics of humans. When I recognised this I started to photograph these trees and to combine them with studioshots of people. An ongoing series...
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Jun, 2018

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Behind The Lens

Location

This photo is a composition of two photo's. The tree is photographed in Assen (NL) in front of the Drenths Museum and the model in my studio.

Time

I walked through the city Assen and my girlfriend (the model) pointed at the tree and said: look that tree has a but in its stem. I saw a complete woman visualised in the tree stem. I took a photo which lived for two years on my harddrive before I asked my girlfriend to pose for me in my studio. With some Photoshop magic I composed this picture.

Lighting

When your lighting in the photos is similar your compositing is a lot easier.

Equipment

Camera: Nikon D800, 24-700mm f2.8 @ ±50mm

Inspiration

Seeing the forms in the tree inspired me.

Editing

A composite photo like this obvious needs a lot of post-processing. The model posed exactly like the forms in the tree which made it easier to compose her on the tree. With several layers of bark I blended the structure on her back. The lighting is extremely modified to pull the two pictures together.

In my camera bag

Standard equipment in my bag: Nikon D850, 50mm 1.4, 14-14 f2.8, 24-70mm f2.8 and 70-200mm f2.8

Feedback

Compositing is al lot easier when the photo's have a similar lighting.

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Tree-people-01

Sometimes a tree resembles form-charactaristics of humans. When I recognised this I started to photograph these trees and to combine them with studioshots of pe... Read more

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Sometimes a tree resembles form-charactaristics of humans. When I recognised this I started to photograph these trees and to combine them with studioshots of pe...
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