how to take such photos?

[tissa]

How do u take such pics? I have an idea in mind and it would be nice to incorporate this floating effect
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[Buckster]

Photoshop composite.

Shoot a photo of the people, positioned on chairs, tables, or whatever to get them up in the air. Remove the people and whatever was holding them up and shoot a photo of the background without them. Do both photos on a tripod and use the same settings for ISO, aperture, shutter and focus (lock them in when you set up the first shot).

Bring the two photos together as separate layers in photoshop, with the people picture on the top layer. Use a mask and a soft paintbrush to paint away the chair or table or whatever was holding the people up, revealing instead the background in the layer beneath. Get the paintbrush crisp when you get around the people.

Clone and heal if necessary to do any cleanup.

Alternately, cut out the people from the people photo, and paste them into the background, positioned wherever you like. If you do this, pay attention to the light on them, so that it matches the light in the background. Use feathering to keep it from looking too fake.

 

[tissa]

Photoshop composite.

Shoot a photo of the people, positioned on chairs, tables, or whatever to get them up in the air. Remove the people and whatever was holding them up and shoot a photo of the background without them. Do both photos on a tripod and use the same settings for ISO, aperture, shutter and focus (lock them in when you set up the first shot).

Bring the two photos together as separate layers in photoshop, with the people picture on the top layer. Use a mask and a soft paintbrush to paint away the chair or table or whatever was holding the people up, revealing instead the background in the layer beneath. Get the paintbrush crisp when you get around the people.

Clone and heal if necessary to do any cleanup.

Alternately, cut out the people from the people photo, and paste them into the background, positioned wherever you like. If you do this, pay attention to the light on them, so that it matches the light in the background. Use feathering to keep it from looking too fake.

is this the only way? I only use lightroom...

 

[Buckster]

Photoshop composite.

Shoot a photo of the people, positioned on chairs, tables, or whatever to get them up in the air. Remove the people and whatever was holding them up and shoot a photo of the background without them. Do both photos on a tripod and use the same settings for ISO, aperture, shutter and focus (lock them in when you set up the first shot).

Bring the two photos together as separate layers in photoshop, with the people picture on the top layer. Use a mask and a soft paintbrush to paint away the chair or table or whatever was holding the people up, revealing instead the background in the layer beneath. Get the paintbrush crisp when you get around the people.

Clone and heal if necessary to do any cleanup.

Alternately, cut out the people from the people photo, and paste them into the background, positioned wherever you like. If you do this, pay attention to the light on them, so that it matches the light in the background. Use feathering to keep it from looking too fake.

is this the only way? I only use lightroom...

It's the only way that I know of, unless you can figure out how to levitate people.

Doesn't have to be done in the full-blown version of Photoshop though. You can do it in Photoshop Elements, which is cheaper (especially if you're a student), or you can do it in Gimp, which is free.

 

[Tarayn]

The photo is cool

 

[tissa]

Photoshop composite.

Shoot a photo of the people, positioned on chairs, tables, or whatever to get them up in the air. Remove the people and whatever was holding them up and shoot a photo of the background without them. Do both photos on a tripod and use the same settings for ISO, aperture, shutter and focus (lock them in when you set up the first shot).

Bring the two photos together as separate layers in photoshop, with the people picture on the top layer. Use a mask and a soft paintbrush to paint away the chair or table or whatever was holding the people up, revealing instead the background in the layer beneath. Get the paintbrush crisp when you get around the people.

Clone and heal if necessary to do any cleanup.

Alternately, cut out the people from the people photo, and paste them into the background, positioned wherever you like. If you do this, pay attention to the light on them, so that it matches the light in the background. Use feathering to keep it from looking too fake.

is this the only way? I only use lightroom...

It's the only way that I know of, unless you can figure out how to levitate people.

Doesn't have to be done in the full-blown version of Photoshop though. You can do it in Photoshop Elements, which is cheaper (especially if you're a student), or you can do it in Gimp, which is free.

i checked out the gimp and it doesnt look like it is any different than Lightroom (only has less features. At least by the look on the features on the web site. It doesnt look like one can do layers and erase the objects that are not needed...

 

[Buckster]

is this the only way? I only use lightroom...

It's the only way that I know of, unless you can figure out how to levitate people.

Doesn't have to be done in the full-blown version of Photoshop though. You can do it in Photoshop Elements, which is cheaper (especially if you're a student), or you can do it in Gimp, which is free.

i checked out the gimp and it doesnt look like it is any different than Lightroom (only has less features. At least by the look on the features on the web site. It doesnt look like one can do layers and erase the objects that are not needed...

Check this out...

Layers:


And Masks:

 

[bratkinson]

Photoshop composite.

It's the only way that I know of, unless you can figure out how to levitate people.

You'll need to watch "The Masked Magician" programs again. He shows exactly how they levitate people! LOL

 

[Buckster]

You'll need to watch "The Masked Magician" programs again. He shows exactly how they levitate people! LOL

Yeah, with a forklift, a big spatula, and a curtain. I'm gonna go ahead and say that the method I suggested will be more practical to most people looking to get these types of photos.

 

[KmH]

GiIMP can edit pixels. Lightroom can't.

GIMP is a free, open source raster graphics editing application. Lightroom is PIEware (Parametric Image Editing) whose main function is image database management. Lightroom's Develop module is the Raw converter - Adobe Camera Raw (ACR)

GIMP is comparable to Photoshop Elements, but GIMP does not include a Raw converter. Elements has a de-featured version of ACR.

 

[morganza]

Photoshop composite.

Shoot a photo of the people, positioned on chairs, tables, or whatever to get them up in the air. Remove the people and whatever was holding them up and shoot a photo of the background without them. Do both photos on a tripod and use the same settings for ISO, aperture, shutter and focus (lock them in when you set up the first shot).

Bring the two photos together as separate layers in photoshop, with the people picture on the top layer. Use a mask and a soft paintbrush to paint away the chair or table or whatever was holding the people up, revealing instead the background in the layer beneath. Get the paintbrush crisp when you get around the people.

Clone and heal if necessary to do any cleanup.

Alternately, cut out the people from the people photo, and paste them into the background, positioned wherever you like. If you do this, pay attention to the light on them, so that it matches the light in the background. Use feathering to keep it from looking too fake.

That's very useful, thank you!

 

[sarahbaby]

The Photo is so beautiful, cool.

 

[chuckdee]

Looks like she may have been laying on a chair and it was photoshopped out but her dress says otherwise. The depth of field of the woods shot is shallow and for the couple it is not. Not sure if the couple was photographed at the time of the background.

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[Buckster]

Looks like she may have been laying on a chair and it was photoshopped out but her dress says otherwise.

Actually, it says that the dress was hung in such a way as to make it more believable that she's not laying on something. It could be that mostly it's her back that's supported, plus the dress can be hanging over the front of whatever's supporting her - between the support and the camera - it doesn't have to be tucked up between her and the support.

The depth of field of the woods shot is shallow and for the couple it is not.

The DOF was manipulated during 10 hours he spent Photoshopping this, according to his notes and some of the other shots that show a much deeper DOF that easily covers the spacial plane the couple occupies, based on what we can see on the ground in the other photos I'm talking about.

Not sure if the couple was photographed at the time of the background.

There's no way to be sure, but it's a whole lot easier to successfully merge the two when they're both shot close together, in the same light and using the same exposure settings, and that's especially true when it comes time to mask it. It's so much easier to do it that way, that I'd consider it downright foolish not to.

 

[Robin Usagani]

Or I can be your model. I can levitate.