WDPC PHOTOTREK 2016
MY 6 ENTRIES
1 - Ancient and Modern
2 - Colour
3 - Emotions
4 - Monochrome
5 - Through the Window
6 - Creative
See how I created this shot below :)
Creative
Hands over Face
I left this very late in the day – Took both photos with Camera on a tripod with remote and 2 second timer.
The photos were not sharp once I got them on the computer just didn’t have time to take again.
I thought I would try and hide the bad focusing with a texture or effect!
First take a picture of your subject’s face, and then another one with the subject covering his/her face with hands. Later you include both the pictures as layers in a single document in Photoshop. Picture with just the face as bottom layer, and the one with hands on top. You then change the top layers blending mode to overlay (try other blending modes too, sometimes they give better results), experiment a bit with opacity settings, try changing to black and white, adding some texture etc.
My First Shot below
My Second Shot below
Open a new document in Photoshop, add both images as different layers on to the document, the picture with hands covering the face should be the top layer.
Click edit > auto align layers to align both layers best we can.
Now that you have both images as layers, change the blending mode of the top layer to overlay,
So below is how our picture now looks once I changed the blending mode to overlay and adjusted the opacity a bit.
I then just deleted the bottom half of the top “Hands” layer to try to make it a bit cleaner.
Click Layer > Flatten Image to merge the layers into one.
Now change to black and white.
In Photoshop, click image > adjustments > black and white.
Try adjusting the sliders or contrast settings to get the right balance between black and white areas in your picture. Now all I did was to use the eraser tool to clean up a bit and the result is the image below. You could also try to add some texture or using any other filters on the image for different effects.
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