GrimLight. Below is a first draft about 85% complete.
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Sunday 24 July 2011
The Viper Strikes
Just putting the finishing touches to a draft production shot for WWE wrestler Randy Orton. Randy was shot earlier this year and the background effects where all hand drawn in during post production by
GrimLight. Below is a first draft about 85% complete.
Posted On Location - Digital Dennis / GrimLight / Strobistonline / Tweet @digitaldennis
GrimLight. Below is a first draft about 85% complete.
Posted On Location - Digital Dennis / GrimLight / Strobistonline / Tweet @digitaldennis
Wednesday 20 July 2011
White Heaven A Self Portrait
Whilst recovering from some time off my feet with a bad back I've been busy fine tuning my post production and art skills. I just finished a self portrait the shot was taken back in March 2011 I had the idea to put an image together with me snow boarding.
The image is a portrait of me shot on a black background laid on the floor the following have all been added during post production by me by hand. The goggles, snowboard the snowboard art, additional lighting effects, background, sky, snow particles and snow all drawn in by me to bring this art piece together.
Just wanted to show you what I can offer as part of a new service called DigiArt / GrimArt. Digital Dennis and GrimLight - Where Imagination Becomes Reality !
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The image is a portrait of me shot on a black background laid on the floor the following have all been added during post production by me by hand. The goggles, snowboard the snowboard art, additional lighting effects, background, sky, snow particles and snow all drawn in by me to bring this art piece together.
Just wanted to show you what I can offer as part of a new service called DigiArt / GrimArt. Digital Dennis and GrimLight - Where Imagination Becomes Reality !
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Dave Hill Galaxy
Dave Hill's work has always been an inspiration to me and he has just made available a new 3D reel showing how some of his work is done.
I wanted to share this as it shows how much work is involved with images like this. I have posted before work that we do here at GrimLight and this video gives you an insight in to how much work we put into our images and work but also shows you just what is possible here at GrimLight.
Thanks to Dave Hill for sharing this video with us.
Adventure Series - Exposed from Dave Hill on Vimeo.
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I wanted to share this as it shows how much work is involved with images like this. I have posted before work that we do here at GrimLight and this video gives you an insight in to how much work we put into our images and work but also shows you just what is possible here at GrimLight.
Thanks to Dave Hill for sharing this video with us.
Adventure Series - Exposed from Dave Hill on Vimeo.
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Saturday 16 July 2011
BL Fashion Shoot - Revamp
Been busy finishing off some shots from a portrait and fashion shoot for BL Hairdressing. These shots are re-vamp work and post production examples for the client just wanted to share some of the shots with you see below.
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Wednesday 13 July 2011
It's In The Magners !
Another shoot been done for Magners Cider as part of a concept idea I put forward using the Bee's more from the advert. This shot and concept work are copyright of Digital Dennis and GrimLight. The shot was put together from multiple different shots taken to bring the components of the shot idea together during post production all work done by us here at GrimLight.
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Olympic Champion - Kurt Angle
Got the chance to meet Kurt Angle the Olympic Champion wreslter from Impact Wrestling. Kurt was over here in the UK promoting an up coming event here in the UK in January 2012. It was a pleasure to meet him a very polite and humble man was so chuffed been mad on wrestling since I was knee high. I managed to get a couple of quick shots before he had to go. I put together a concept shot to replicate the current Impact Wrestling brand see below.
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HTC Wild Fire S
Been doing some concept work for HTC around their new HTC Wildfire S. A lot of post production work on this and conceptual drawing work to put the shot together see below for a 90% finished draft.
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Tuesday 12 July 2011
Fellow Photographer Lighting Help!
I posted some new work on my flicker today only to be asked by one of my friends and contacts for some help regarding how this shot was done? I send a help email to help him out.
I thought I would post this email below firstly there is a link to the shot in question on my flicker which is http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitaldennis/5930618648/
My reply is below hope this helps you all?
Now then hope you well?
Ok phone shot I did of the HTC was shot on a green background so I could knock the background out quicker but to keep simple see below tips.
Reflections - have cards availble in black and also white these are excellent for controlling and blocking out reflections. If say with a phone you want to shoot the screen donthis separate I'll come back to this.
You can shoot a phone against a black background cut down on outfit spill if shot with a White background you can get a brighter image.
Phone screen shot is easy black background low light with camera over and above screen with phone laid flat take a low light shot no flash with a 2 - 3 second exposure with iso at your lowest camera setting. This is always the best way to get these kind of shots and easiest. Then during post work you can copy the screen details across onto the subject shot and combine the two.
The above gets rid of unwanted reflections on glass and subjects like your iPhone screen.
Lighting ? - ok the shot I did was done with a single sb800 you can use either a soft box or diffuser or you can shoot through a sheet of thin paper this diffuses the light so soft this will light the phone evenly or you can point the flash up to the ceiling and step power down to get similar lighting.
Another option you can try is stand the phone upright blue tack is a god send for this with a black background lighting wise you can put a flash on each side of the camera st power lw to start with so your lighting the left and right of the camera the light will soften in the middle.
Some times you can shoot the camera, then you might shoot the phone details differently then combine the best bits again during post in photoshop.
The above will help you massively shots like these will be often made up of several shots to get the combined parts when put together right.
So to recap - using phone as example
Light and shoot the body edges first, then the phone front, move camera around whilst using White / black cards to see and capture the lighting or reflections you want then you will have all the parts of the image finally the screen display in low light then combine together to create the finished shot.
Another final note you can get the above with out reflections on the screen sometimes by using a longer lens say 70 - 100 mm so your further away from the camera hence less chance of creating unwanted reflections.
Commercial shots like the magazines are never straight from the camera this is just not the case.
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I thought I would post this email below firstly there is a link to the shot in question on my flicker which is http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitaldennis/5930618648/
My reply is below hope this helps you all?
Now then hope you well?
Ok phone shot I did of the HTC was shot on a green background so I could knock the background out quicker but to keep simple see below tips.
Reflections - have cards availble in black and also white these are excellent for controlling and blocking out reflections. If say with a phone you want to shoot the screen donthis separate I'll come back to this.
You can shoot a phone against a black background cut down on outfit spill if shot with a White background you can get a brighter image.
Phone screen shot is easy black background low light with camera over and above screen with phone laid flat take a low light shot no flash with a 2 - 3 second exposure with iso at your lowest camera setting. This is always the best way to get these kind of shots and easiest. Then during post work you can copy the screen details across onto the subject shot and combine the two.
The above gets rid of unwanted reflections on glass and subjects like your iPhone screen.
Lighting ? - ok the shot I did was done with a single sb800 you can use either a soft box or diffuser or you can shoot through a sheet of thin paper this diffuses the light so soft this will light the phone evenly or you can point the flash up to the ceiling and step power down to get similar lighting.
Another option you can try is stand the phone upright blue tack is a god send for this with a black background lighting wise you can put a flash on each side of the camera st power lw to start with so your lighting the left and right of the camera the light will soften in the middle.
Some times you can shoot the camera, then you might shoot the phone details differently then combine the best bits again during post in photoshop.
The above will help you massively shots like these will be often made up of several shots to get the combined parts when put together right.
So to recap - using phone as example
Light and shoot the body edges first, then the phone front, move camera around whilst using White / black cards to see and capture the lighting or reflections you want then you will have all the parts of the image finally the screen display in low light then combine together to create the finished shot.
Another final note you can get the above with out reflections on the screen sometimes by using a longer lens say 70 - 100 mm so your further away from the camera hence less chance of creating unwanted reflections.
Commercial shots like the magazines are never straight from the camera this is just not the case.
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