Get a collage of Dogs from only 1 Dog!
So how how can you get this image from only 1 Dog?It is actually really simple. What do you need:
- Posing table ie. (We used a IKEA cube with some pigeon holes in it.)
- Lights to light you subject (We used 4 Elinchrome Studio Lights)
- A camera (We used a 5D Canon SLR Camera)
- A Computer / PC with Photoshop (We used CS4 but you can use Elements or any PS product)
- 1 Dog (We used our Studio assistant Cailín)
O.K. So let us go more in details for you tech people out there.
This is not hard is actually a lot of fun. Read on and try it your self!
Cailín posing in the IKEA cube
From here I got her to sit in all of the different cubicles.
Note that I used 4 lights to try to get the most equal lights for this shot. The two background lights was set at F11 = F16 when you measure the lights together to get the white paper backdrop as white as possible and the the two softboxes in the front was set at F8 each = F11 when you measure the lights together.
I set the camera in Manual and my settings ware F11 after the two main lights (softboxes) so I would have loads of depth in the image (The higher the F stop is the more depth of field in the image is available). The ISO was set at 200 (Usually I shoot at ISO 100 as this will give a better quality to the final image) With these setting set on the camera I had to shoot the scene at a shutter speed of 1/100
Image 1)
Start with one image and build it from there.
Image 4)
Image 3)
The Editing in Photoshop
When everything was shot I inported the images in to Lightroom where I did the basic editing such as selection of my best shots and the white balance (I had image quality on RAW). From there I exported all of the best selected images in to Photoshop. Now - we will start to do the main work. Bring all of the images in to one new layer. Now put each image on top of each other bring down the opacity on the image above so you can see the image below, this will make it easier to get each image layered perfectly on top of each other. When you are happy with the images that they are in line with each other, then you simply can start deleting or erasing the part of the image on the top layer so the image underneath will emerge.
And hey...! Bob's your uncle!
Note you need to do this with every layer / image. If not this can end up to be a really frustrating job.
That's it!
-The Bos Photography Team-
www.BosPhotography.net
