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<\/a><\/p>\nFortunately I\u2019d spoken to Luke earlier in the day and he was more then happy to stand in as my model for the shoot. As it turned out the shoot went without a hitch, Luke turned out to be a brilliant model and the final image (as seen above) was better then I had hoped.<\/p>\n
The second photo is one of my stock images. It\u2019s a view down a passenger tunnel at a station on the Bluebell Railway in West Sussex. The grungy effect is a result of processing the original image in Nik Color Efex Pro 4.<\/a><\/p>\n A few days ago I was presenting an all day digital workshop for Ludshott Photo Club. After a morning of non stop Photoshop tips and tricks I was ready for some photography in the form of a live portrait shoot. If you\u2019ve ever had a bash at shooting portraits then you\u2019ll understand that it can … Continue reading Behind the image – Luke<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1231,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions\/1231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>So how did I get to the final image? Well it\u2019s a combination of two image. The shot of Luke was taken during the workshop. He\u2019s lit with a single speedlite fired through a small softbox from Smick<\/a>. The background is also from Smick is a black\/white reversible<\/a> popup. Without a light to brighten the background it appears grey in the photo instead of white.<\/p>\n<\/a>For the workshop I did a live demo on how to effectively cut out hair. To be honest its a job that\u2019s been made incredibly simple thanks to the amazing Edge Detection found in Photoshop CS5\u2019s Refine Edge. After Luke had been removed from the original background, it was a simple job to paste him onto the new background and apply a Black\/White adjustment layer to hide the colour difference. Cop out? Yeah a bit, but hey. it was all done LIVE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"