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nicola lane photography

Working With Composite Images

  • Making Images Magical

Making magical images come true, as a Cary child photographer, I decided to do something different.!  These images are also known as “Composite” pictures. They are can be from several different images merged into one. There are a lot of free stock images available for you to work with from different sites such as DeviantArt. All you need is a great imagination and patience.  Composite work requires a lot of Photoshop knowledge. You should know all about Photoshop, layers, layer masks and extracting subjects. For these particular images, I used a green screen. Green screens can be very helpful when you are using a child or object you need to “cut out” of another photograph.
 
Pictures like these are often described as “fine art”.   It is making something that is not real – look real and that is where the magic happens! Who doesn’t want to fight a giant octopus, feed an elephant or ride in a boat above the clouds! It is limitless what you are able to do when you combine images together. Use your imagination, book covers, movie covers. Even memories of your own childhood. The possibilities are endless. This method can also help when you have an image of a child looking away from the camera. You may see that they are looking at nothing. If you put a rabbit or something in the path of her eye is going, you will find you have a much more interesting picture! There are so many things you can do when you learn how to bring magic into a photograph. Knowing how to do this and do it right is so important. Some images can actually look realistic! Many times I have heard a comment “wow, that bat was very close to you” and they have no idea the bat was never there.

 

A little boy rides through the sky in this magical image. He is surrounded by clouds and hot air balloons!Cary Child Photographer | Feeding the elephants | www.nicolalanephotography.comMaking magical images come true! A little boy battles off a large octopus in a stormy ocean.