Final Product Advertisement Shots

Two final shots of the Product Advertisement, Portrait and Landscape. Portrait version submitted as the brief required the image be portrait although I prefer the landscape version with minimal text. I wanted a nice clean look under the text. Using PS5 I selected the colour of the wood panel and blended, almost invisably, a solid colour to the panel being cut. The logo was downloaded from the web and the deep etched saw had a nub on the back that was the power cord connection so I placed it under the the edge of the logo to keep it tidy. Although not visible in the blog image there is sawdust on the board to add to the realism of the image.

Studio Couple

Had difficulty trying to find a couple I knew who was available to come to the studio during working hours and retired friends were travelling or unwilling to model. Got approval from Julian to do a self-portrait couple show with my wife. Used a large softbox overhead and slightly to the front of the models with a second studio light aimed at the background from the right to left  spill of light to get a gradient effect on the background.

Studio Executive ReShoot

Although the first Studio Executive had some good shots the major problem notice when view at 1:1 as mentioned in the blog was that there the sitter had beads of sweat across the bridge of her nose. Many may have tried using Photoshop to mask the beads I do not feel my skills with PS are up to it as yet and chose to do a reshoot. This shoot was much more satisfactory with no beads of sweat this time and her hair fringe is fuller in this set. Although trying to have the model comb her fringe to fill it out her hair was too thin leaving gaps. I played with a technique I found in a PS tutorial to fill in the gaps and while it works again I felt my PS skills were not up to using it in the final image.