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Bottom Liner posted:I tried to do my first composite tonight, not happy with the results. This is a lot harder than I imagined, though I assume shooting the images with the purpose of compositing them would make it much easier. Any tips (in general or for this image). I don't know much about making composites, but I think one of the keys to selling it is having believable lighting and shadows between the subject/background. The background is an overcast day with snow on the ground, which is probably some of the softest, omni-directional lighting situations you run into in the real world. Your model, on the other hand, is getting a big dose of light from the right hand side casting all sorts of shadows around her shoulder and chin, but none into the immediate area where she's sitting. I'm not sure the DoF is quite right in this comp either. The subject is in very sharp focus (looks like pretty normal f/11 studio stuff) whereas the background looks like its shot wide open with focus about 30 feet away. Be careful about perspective/focal length too. Don't composite wide subjects onto telephoto backgrounds, and keep tele subjects in the centre of wide backgrounds, or shoot both at similar focal lengths. I don't think its a big problem here, but something to keep in mind.
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Bottom Liner posted:reposting this from the wedding thread to hopefully get a suggestion tonight: You could also get some really dramatic, warm, half-lit shots from the sides (i.e. shooting north/south). Just expose for the highlights and let the east-facing bits be dark.
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