02.22.09 Over My Head

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Sometimes your worst enemy is yourself.

So now onto last week's before and after photos.

Kinda BEFORE:

As you can see my gas mask didnt have any eye coverings.  So that's one thing I had to add in photoshop, not only that but I also added the hose coming out of the gas mask.

Being the shy boy I am I wore a pair of shorts when I sat on the toilet, just incase there were any slip ups. I then edited the lens curve in photoshop to make my upper body look much larger than my legs, in order to bring more of a focus on my face. After adding a few affects and color changes I was finished.

AFTER:

02.16.09 Toxicity

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52/6 It wasn't me!

Ok so now a look at last week's image. I started out by painting my face. This took a long time to do, mainly cause the kabuki picture I was using as a reference was in a different room, so I kept running in between rooms to paint my face.

This is half way through the makeup

And just for reference this is what I looked like before the makeup

So finally I finished putting on all the makeup.

Then I did my photo shoot. Here's a before and after of the photo.
BEFORE:

AFTER:

So as you can see I turned the photo upside down and added some editing. Ok hope you guys liked it.
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2.13.09 Put It On Or Take It Off?

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52/5
There are times in life where we need to remove the masks that we've worn.


Ok this week I'm going to show you a behind the scenes on last weeks photo "Rock and a Hard Place"
BEFORE



I pass this airfield everyday on my way home. It's wear I watch the helicopters practice their maneuvers. I had been planning this picture for a while, so one day I packed all my gear and came out here. Unfortunately I happened to pick the day there were like 5 other photographers taking pictures of helicopters. So I felt really dumb. but I took my pictures anyways. After I took my photos I converted them to HDR images.

I then went through and actually edited the HDR image to get the effect I wanted. This became difficult when adding elements like the helicopter in the background because it wasn't taken in HDR.
AFTER:


And from there I eventually finished "Rock and a Hard Place" The most difficult part of this project was making the fence extend into nothingness. The vanishing point of the fence, and the horizon made it difficult to edit properly. But I like the way things turned out in the end.

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02.02.09 Rock and a Hard Place

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52/4

You have to make tough choices in life and see where they take you, because the alternative won't get you anywhere.


This week I will tell you about last weeks photo. Here is a before shot:


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I had a few shots from a helicopter base near my house. They were running drills one day and so I also got the shot of the people jumping out of the helicopter. Unfortunately you couldn't see much because there were trees in the way, and also the helicopter got cut off because I was trying to take pictures of the men. So I took another full picture of the helicopter and put it together with the men jumping out to get this effect. I had to go in and draw the rope leading off the helicopter because my photo as I said was mostly covered with a tree.

I then went through and added all the lighting. My favorite light that I added was the light shining down from the helicopter. After I finished I was trying to add a few raindrops on the lens of the camera (through photoshop), instead I got the two bright lights in the lower left corner. I liked the way it looked so I kept it.
Here is the finished image:



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Anyways hope you guys are enjoying my 52 project. Until next week... or sooner.

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