What Attitude, Dad?
How?
Well, to first state the obvious, this is two photos merged together. I had to shoot both subjects with the same lighting angle. The only difference being the small subject was shot from above to get the right perspective to stand on the large hand. Both photos were layered in Photoshop and corrected to match. I had to extract both from their white backgrounds (they were shot against white) and then positioned within the frame. I placed another layer between the two and “painted in” a shadow under the small subject with a soft black brush and changed the blend mode of that layer to multiply, and making of course, the shadows darker directly around the shoes according to the light direction. I prefer painting in the shadows as I get more control as to where they go. There’s even a slight shadow across the large thumb. I always say, if you notice the shadows, then you’ve done a bad job. Then I applied a gradient for the background. I post processed the whole image in Lightroom where I desaturated the image slightly, increased the clarity and applied a minor split tone of a light brown color (hence the warm tone). That’s it!
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Nathalie Chaput
Really Awesome shot Kory!! Do you have the “How, for dummies??”
Shannon Donovan
Wow….I am so a fan…
Bek Williams
fantastic work!
Joseph Najm
Fantastic Composition and perspective Kory
Nanagahma
Nicely done. Great title for this fun photo.
Ursula Rodgers
lol! Love it Kory :) I’m with Nathalie here on the “How, for dummies?”!
monocotylidono
What do you mean “That’s it!”??? Some of us haven’t got the creativeness to envision something like this, never mind mastering the techniques involved (even with a How-To). And you casually dismiss it with That’s it!? :-) You are a true artist my friend!
Honor Kyne
Thats very cool Kory :)) Well done! :D
Vikram Franklin
Wow – really, awesomely cool Kory.
First – the pre-visualising this pic and then doing mind-boggling stuff in PS to get what you wanted.
That is true artistry as George so rightly put it.
Dean Mullin
Dude, – awesome Dude….
said in the same manner as the little turtle in Finding Nemo…. :o)
midzing
fantastic work,,, well done
Trevor Needham
Brilliantly done – very clever!
Plexus04
Wow, you are a pro! very nice.
Paola Jofre
Creative!!!! love it!! :) :)
Jen Cannella
Love your work!
RavenSoul
LOVE your Style!
bubbleblue
wow, very cool
Ukridge
nice gritty look, like your work
windrider86
you ceratinly have my attention!
Barb Leopold
Fantastic, love it!
MuscularTeeth
brilliant work.
Stephen Thomas
This way cool! Excellent job!
Scott d'Almeida
awesome,
Timqth
this photo makes me chuckle deep in my being.
mydogmax
yep awesome and even with the explanation I dont think ill ever be that clever
Bradley Shawn ...
Tremendous work my friend. I loved reading the write up! Congrats on the Home page feature as well!
Junior Mclean
This would be good for a movie promo. Nice!!
Rachel Counts
Haha love it… great idea!
monocotylidono
Brilliant! Congratulations on the Home Page feature Kory! Well deserved!
Christeen Thor...
so cool!
Dean Mullin
nice homepage feature Kory! yeah!
Vikram Franklin
Congratulations on the Home Page Kory!
Kathy Nairn
Fantastic work! Congratulations on a well deserved home page feature. :)
Tenee Attoh
What a great shot, I really need to learn all these merges etc they are amazing, I find layers is Photoshop so hard to learn, have you any advice!!!
Ken Fortie 16 days ago
Teenagers, what can I say? Great work.