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04/14/2009 06:03:53 PM · #1 |
Peter Funch stakes out NY City street corners for weeks at a time, taking photos of people walking by. Then he merges the results into a single image, by themes...
Amazing project, check it out here |
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04/14/2009 06:11:28 PM · #2 |
man that stuff is awesome! i had a very similar idea for a series in my town. based on the composite technique ( ) i want to capture images of typical people of specific districts and put those together in one photo for each district.
eta: i noticed that most of the locations offer reflected light, which really adds to the quality and drama of the pictures...
Message edited by author 2009-04-14 18:14:43. |
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04/14/2009 06:21:32 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by Mephisto:
eta: i noticed that most of the locations offer reflected light, which really adds to the quality and drama of the pictures... |
I wonder if it may be clever post editing to get the light consistent? |
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04/14/2009 07:01:02 PM · #4 |
| those are so cool. once the shots are taken how is it compiled? |
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04/14/2009 07:16:38 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by briantammy:
those are so cool. once the shots are taken how is it compiled? |
it's actually quite easy once you know how to do it. it's basically the same technique you use for these multiple selfportraits:
put the camera on a tripod, shoot away on "everything-on-manual-mode" and then in pp layer the shots and mask the parts you want to combine.
as rinac pointed out the difficulty with these seems to be to manage to get all the frames within a certain frame of time in which the lighting isn't changing (much), which to me seems almost impossible considering the locations and reflected light spots he chose... |
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04/14/2009 09:48:45 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by Mephisto:
Originally posted by briantammy:
those are so cool. once the shots are taken how is it compiled? |
it's actually quite easy once you know how to do it. it's basically the same technique you use for these multiple selfportraits:
put the camera on a tripod, shoot away on "everything-on-manual-mode" and then in pp layer the shots and mask the parts you want to combine.
as rinac pointed out the difficulty with these seems to be to manage to get all the frames within a certain frame of time in which the lighting isn't changing (much), which to me seems almost impossible considering the locations and reflected light spots he chose... |
that's what i'm asking. how do you put them together. how do you mask? |
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04/14/2009 10:42:41 PM · #7 |
| I like the yawners, the people taking photos, and the planes in the sky over the beach. Interesting stuff. |
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04/14/2009 11:21:01 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by briantammy:
that's what i'm asking. how do you put them together. how do you mask? |
I would guess using a foreground to transparent gradient mask maybe? Start with possibly an empty scene with the best light, then start adding layers of other images and try to match the quality. If there's a "standard" way to do it, I'd like to know as well. |
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04/16/2009 09:47:36 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by rinac:
Originally posted by briantammy:
that's what i'm asking. how do you put them together. how do you mask? |
I would guess using a foreground to transparent gradient mask maybe? Start with possibly an empty scene with the best light, then start adding layers of other images and try to match the quality. If there's a "standard" way to do it, I'd like to know as well. |
i dunno if there's a "standard" way either, but *I* just start with either a random one or one with no or one person in it, then layer the next one on top, set the opacity to 50% to fine-tune the blending if necesarry (i use a tripod, but not a remote control so slight camera movement between frames is often a factor you need to be awere of when you do the layering), then add a layer mask to that layer, fill the mask with black and gently paint in with a fine white brush the part(s) of the photo (in this case another person) i want to see through.
then add the next layer and do the same (make sure to order your layers from foreground to background/top to bottom in photoshop).
here are a few i did today:
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04/17/2009 12:51:08 AM · #10 |
| Thanks for the link, Rina. Really fun composites -- the thematic linking is wild. |
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04/17/2009 12:57:27 AM · #11 |
Originally posted by Pug-H:
I like the yawners, the people taking photos, and the planes in the sky over the beach. Interesting stuff. |
The yawners cracked me up too. I also thought the planes over the beach was really cool, especially because that photo perfectly summed up how my trip to San Diego seemed. Damn planes.
That really is a pretty neat series though. |
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04/17/2009 01:01:16 AM · #12 |
| whoa that was really cool and a great idea... |
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