Now that I have the core of the image in place it’s time to drop in the other players. As I mentioned in the last post there are two additional characters that must be dropped in to represent ‘child’ figures. I am using shots of the same model for each so each element will need to be clipped out from seperate shots, dropped in and have a little shadow added to make it fit within the final piece. But before I do that I want to drop a toy element into the shot (fig.1 – left). Once that is in place it’s time to add a bit of dirt around the base to give it the feel that the wheels have been buried a bit. Once that was done I then dropped in the clipped ‘male’ figure (fig.1 – right) along with a small amount of dirt around the shoes and just a touch of rough shadowing.
fig. 1 – kid and toy
The little ‘girl’ figure is up next (fig.2 – left). Same goes for this one in terms of clipping the modelout and dropping her into the image. Once my final choice on placement was made I added some rough shadowing to get an initial look at how the whole composition was working together.
In this shot, “Rising Tide” there are going to be 3 characters (each the same model). Initially I thought the pose of the model holding out her dress (as seen in my previous post) would be the one I’d go with for the final piece. However, after reflecting on all the shots a bit and the story I am telling, I felt that it would be better to use a different pose that kept standing out to me each time I reviewed the shots. This now meant I needed to remove the water that I created in the original composite, and move it to the new shot. But before I do that I need to compose the new base shot (fig.1). Below are the progress shots of this process.
fig. 1 – background plate
