As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, Meet and Shoot is a fantastic photo meetup group in Atlanta that offers unique and creative photo shoots for photographers of all skill levels. Back in April 2011, Meet and Shoot offered a Pin-up styled shoot. Some of my favorite personal images are from this particular meetup, but I felt that my post processing was lacking on them. So I decided to revisit some of them, one in particular that I’ll be talking about here.
Shawna is a lovely young lady from South Carolina who came down to model for this shoot. I took a few different looks with Shawna throughout the day, even getting in front of the camera with her.
One of my favorite looks from this shoot was just simply Shawna, with a bit of confidence in her eyes.
While the composition leaves something to be desired, she does a wonderful job in front of the camera. So its up to me to make a more compelling image with my lovely model. I start thinking of what would work well with this image and the patch of brick on the background is what jumps out at me. I did a little google-fu and decided on a different type of brick wall image.
I had to create more of a foreground in order to make it work; as well as create a realistic shadow that she may have cast being as close to the new background as she appears to be. I recently invested in a Wacom Intous 4 tablet and this image was going to make the most of this accessory. After some careful masking, cropping and cloning; I ended up with my final image.
I’m very pleased with how this came out and its still one of my personal favorite images. Not for any one part, but how all of the aspects of the composite fit like puzzle pieces should.
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