Welcome to the Casp Media blog. This blog is intended to keep readers informed with the world of photography and advertising design. It will also be a common domain to share tips and tricks with photography and post processing. We will upload everything from video tutorials, behind the scene footage from shoots, as well as before and afters and lighting diagrams. Use this blog to get your creative juices flowing.
To start it off we will show some steps that were taken to get the straight out of camera shot to the end result for the client.
This photo is the straight out of camera with no post processing done. On the main layer will be the typical levels and curves adjustment as well as some sharpening and hue/saturation.
The background layer was duplicated, and out came the clone tool as well as the patch tool. The trick with using the clone tool is to make the circle roughly the same size of the object you are trying to remove. You also want to make sure you are selecting the area that is similar in color and texture to the area you are replacing. Most importantly be patient as this can take some time when first starting out. The image above shows the layer when all the cloning is complete.
The newest layer was duplicated once again, and a levels adjustment layer was created. The main focus of this layer was to bring some detail back into the sky. The adjustments will affect the entire image, but just try to focus on the parts you are planning on mask layering, which for this purpose was for the sky only.
The car was a little overexposed due to the strength of the strobes, so we created another levels adjustment layer to darken the color of the car a bit, and bring the color to its true form. Once again the adjustments will affect the entire image, but just try to focus on the parts you are planning on mask layering, which for this purpose was the body of the car.
The tires were a bit white from having to ride through some dusty streets to get to our location, so we planned to darken them. To do so we created a new blank layer and selected the brush tool with black selected as the foreground color. We painted the tires, and then lowered the opacity of the layer so that the details from the tire came through the black.
The completely finished results can be seen above. Hope you enjoyed the first of many posts.
One Comment
Hi, instead of messing with clone tool, I would recommend you to do this kind of photo in another way. Shoot the scene without the car and studio lights first, then without moving camera shoot another scene with the car and equipment – then merge two photos, background and car leaving out the lights…
p.s. I love this photo, light is amazing, unfortunately I don’t own any lightning equipment, and I envy you (in a good way) for the type of shots u can easily get!!