Friday, August 14, 2009

225/365 - i'm not bluffing


225/365 - i'm not bluffing
Originally uploaded by ddiemont
been a while... again. sorry ;-)

so had a couple of request to explain how this was done, so here we go.

first things first, i pulled the royal flush out of my card deck. I then set up the camera about 3 feet in front of my face. i set the camera to manual focus and focused on a point in space 3 feet in front of the camera... this is where i would stand. i then tethered the camera to a laptop so i could see the results of the shots as i took the pictures. if you are unsure what tethering looks like, check my pic for day 9.

below me, at waist level, i set up a flood light and pointed it at the cards in my hand. i then proceeded to take several shots until i saw that the focus and positioning was correct.

i then went into photoshop and removed the reflection of the tripod, camera, etc. out of the reflection in my glasses by cloning them out. tweaked some of the color settings, cropped... and posted.

that's it... not too difficult ;-)