I want to wish everyone a Happy Holidays and may you have a safe and healthy New Year. It's that time of year at work where every department circulates Holiday cards. This year we were a little behind the curve in getting our departmental card done. We tossed around some ideas about shooting outside at the XMAS tree lot, but as I looked at all the computer equipment in our department I suggested we do a humorous shot. My Senior Systems Administrator is a Photoshop Wizard and so he knew what I wanted.
Pretty quick set-up, we used my studio strobes and I did a group shot. Two umbrellas at 45 degrees camera left and right, angled slightly down at full power. ISO 100, 1/125 shutter and f/8 to ensure we were all in focus. Once we got the group of all of us holding up pa monitor, or tablet, I did individual shots using clamshell lighting.
Once all the shots were taken, I processed them and turned them over to Ty. He worked his magic, by using layers, cropping, resizing and cloning. The gentlemen with the Santa hat needed a portion of his shirt inside the monitor cloned too match the rest of his shirt.
All in all from start to finish this creation took about 3 hours. Not bad for a spur of the moment idea.
What did I learn?
1) I need to take a Photoshop Class for fun stuff.
Once again, Happy Holidays, and...
...That's a Wrap!!!
It turned out awesome!!! I love it
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