Art in Photography

Example of what it takes for a simple photo edit…

Recently we had a new fitness model Tia Denise drop by for a photo session…It was a fun session, even though we decided to head out to the beach, unfortunately the weather did not agree with us when we arrived at N. Lido. It was freezing cold and we were covered with moisture and fog! Very unpleasant shooting conditions!

Here are a few shots from the session…

Couldn’t sleep so decided to make some special effects tutorial that would cover everything from beauty retouch to backgrounds to special effects, etc… However after hours of editing…the 4 gig video did not save correctly (file won’t play)!

Sucks but oh well…here’s the final pic…

In the video I showed several examples of Special Effects, but my last one was the smoke effects so this is what you see here!

Old shot with a new look…

Its an Ice Age here in Florida!

Everyone meet Kaydin!

This is a really simple special effect to do in PhotoShop, it requires only the use of 3 tools! First make a new layer and select the brush tool. The brush should be fairly hard and not too big. Now draw your smoke shape with white colored brush…In this photo I drew the zigzag around the model. Next select your Smudge tool and just start smudging away to distort the lines…you will quickly see how it makes the smoke effect happen. The final step is to grab your eraser tool and take away the parts that you don’t want. For instance, if you want the smoke to go behind an object, then just erase that part of the smoke that is overlapping the object. Well thats about it…have fun!

Arash – Pure Love

We recently finished a shoot for Rukus clothing with our beautiful model Jess Snyder and a first time colaboration with Philip {Body Painter}. It was an early day, Philip had Jess in a 2-hour body paint session while we drank starbucks and watched comedy on YouTube! Here are a few behind the scenes shots…