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
In November I started working on a series of pieces for an exhibition coming up in March 2009 in Philidelphia. Now that the shooting is complete I am heads down in the editing process working on a load of compositing and post production. Along the way I have spent quite a bit of time on some great Photoshop and digital arts websites getting a bit of inspiration. One of the things that I keyed in on was the willingness of the artists to share their progress, what their working on and how they do what they do. It’s incredibly interesting to see how each artist works through their piece and what order they attack their phases in. It inspired me to post some of my own work in progress and if anyone is interested I’ll work on some tutorials as well (and if there are any special requests, shoot me an email). This shot here, “Rising Tide” (working title) is part 1 of the work in progress. I’ll post more in the coming weeks.
