Båstnäs scrap yard

I visited this place today (17. may) to see if I could find anything cool and then go back later and shoot, shoot and shoot. There was a lot of cool stuff, and that means going back later this summer.

Here is some of the shots from today.

The making of "The Jokers"

This is how I shot and edited one of The Jokers pictures. There is really not much to it.

First, this is how I photograph my figures:

http://www.glennmeling.blogspot.no/2013/01/how-i-photograph-my-figures.html

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A behind the cool scene of interrogation room :)

This is the shot I used and straight out of camera.

Here I gave The Joker to the left a little more light and retouch his wrist.

Some more light and retouch on both of them and the background.

Desatured the the entire picture and added a little vignette.

And finally I lightened the entire picture and the eyes of the joker to the right, added some texture and more contrast.

The other picture where I did the same thing.

The making of "Kaptein Rødskjegg og havets flamme"

This is a step by step process and I will try to explain what I did on each step.

The picture is a poster for their upcoming show this summer.

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This is the first picture and how it was shot.

Added another shot and cut away the half top of the picture to get the legs in place.

Retouched the background, the hat, the hands etc. and decreased the contrast and saturation.

I used the Rectangular Marquee Tool and made a selection that looked like a pier or something and added a couple of colors.

Then I added a wooden floor texture, distorted it to make it match the perspective and changed the blend mode to Soft Light.

New background with the blend mode Hard Light and masked out the guys.

Brought in some more stuff.

I cut out the hands from another shot and put them in place based on the next step.

The book was shot separately and brought in.

On the three next pictures I added different stuff. The water and fire (stock) was shot on a black background and I changed the blend mode to Screen. The rest is just cut out and the cloud and fog is made using cloud and fog brushes.

Changed the colors, darkened some parts.

Added the "effect" I usually do on this kind of images. That process it to much to write about, but it's mainly dodge and burn, sharpen, High pass filter and so on.

Changed the colors, darkened some parts, added a vignette and finished.

The making of "The Flash on Route 66"

This is how I made my picture of The Flash on Route 66. I took the picture of The Flash several months ago and didn't have any idea of what to do with the picture. I ended up thinking it would be nice to put The Flash in a street in New York or something, but I didn't have a picture of a street in a big city from a low angle. I used a picture of Route 66 that I shot in 2011 instead.

I used one light on The Flash, like this:
http://glennmeling.blogspot.no/2013/01/how-i-photograph-my-figures.html

The statue is the DC Universe Online Statue. Measures approx. 5.75 H x 6 W x 3.5 D.

THE PICTURES I USED (The lightning and route 66 logo is stock, the rest I shot my self):

STEP BY STEP:

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How The Flash was shot with one flash :)

Added the road and tweaked it using Free Transform and Distort to change the perspective.

Brightened The Flash and added a shadow.

Added some motion trail and dodge and burn on The flash to enhance the muscles.

Added the Route 66 logo, toned down the lines on each side to match the logo and retouch one crack.

Bringing in the new sky.

Added some lightning on the Flash, more saturation and contrast.

Added a sun of some kind using Knoll Light Factory.

Changed the colors on the whole picture.

Added some motion using the filter Radial Blur and the blur method zoom.

Cropped it, added a vignette and finished.

Finn Nielsen

This is my father-in-law, Finn Nielsen, at the island Herføl in Norway. He owns a cabin which is located right behind him and the tree line in this picture. We spent the easter vacation there.

I shot this picture with a Sony DSC-RX100 compact camera in raw format, and the light source was the sun. 

The shot was a test shot for a picture I was supposed to shoot this summer (2013) with flashes, diffusers and so on, but I liked how it turned out so maybe we will skip the summer shoot.

The Sony DSC-RX100 compact camera is a great camera by the way.

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This is how it was shot, a little underexposed.

Camera Raw edit.

Then some edit in Photoshop and finished.