Bobbie in the summer river
Apr, 2020Views
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Location
I took the original photo in Oregon Missouri @ Paradise Park Venue and then cut her out of the original background and put her into a digital background.Time
I photographed this image in the evening but wanted to make it look like I photographed it in the middle of the day for more light. The original image was darker and I lightened it.Lighting
I actually shoot darker and then adust a lot of my lighting in photoshop to my taste when editing an image.Equipment
I use a Canon 70D and the lens I used for this image was a Sigma Art 135mm.Inspiration
This image is inspired by so many things. Bobbie, my subject in this image wanted to be photographed in a creek originally because she thought the water effect would look amazing and which it did. This session that we photographed for Bobbie was a women empowerment session. I do these sessions from time to time just to let women feel beautiful in their own skin. I thought it would be amazing to use this digital background that I have had for a minute to make the image even better than before. The amazing thing is that it was easier to make this image because she was already in the water, to begin with. Making her blend in with the digital background was a snap.Editing
Honestly, the most post-processing I did was cutting Bobbie out of the image to put into the digital background to get it prepared.In my camera bag
I usually have my Sigma Art 135mm on my lens most of the time, but I also use my Canon 70-200mm as well. At least always 5 SD cards some for backup and then of course extra battery life.Feedback
My advice for images like this is most definitely practice blending and scaling your subject to fit the image. Sometimes when scaling your subject into an image what I think helps is opening the other image and comparing her size and then go from there. Blending your subject into a digital background, I usually use my oil paint in stylize and then making off what I don't need and it usually blends really well. It's an art you have to practice and practice until you get it, but in photography, you never stop learning.
