If you have been following recent posts about the “Case Study” then you have certainly seen us mention doing post production work on the project. Quite often we do a lot in house. But when we get too busy or have something on the more complex side we have our favorite retoucher that we send stuff to. Lisa Carney. We have been working with Lisa for close to 15 years. We are nothing if not loyal! But besides that, she is great at what she does and willing to share her talents with others through seminars and workshops.

You have seen Lisa’s work in our portfolios and previous posts. If you are an avid follower of this blog then you have also seen where Lisa lives and works in this post.

At any rate, she has done all the work on the “Case Study” images and we shared the final group shot with you yesterday. The portraits are yet to come…

Check out her site both for retouching work and for workshops (online ones!!!!!)

We thought we would share a “before & after” image from the recent UHC shoot we did. This one was fun to do. But there was a lot of post production. We shot this from a “cherry picker” poised high above the tennis court and just shot a bunch of images of the two players going at it. This and one other shot (we’ll share that one on Monday) called for a UnitedHealthcare Membership Card to be incorporated into the scene. We shot an oversized mock UHC Card later in studio and then melded the two together in post as well as adding a better sky and cleaning up and simplifying the court.~

Here are the Before and After

Here is the other shot I was referring to in Last Friday’s Post. This was another fun image but needed much post-production as well. We have included the three base images we used to build the final. There were additional elements used but the majority are from these three images. We could not actually shoot the swimmer in place and use that as the final as he was WAY TOO SMALL relative to the size of the pool. So we needed to shoot him as a separate element and drop him in much larger than he would normally be.~

Final

Composite Elements