Comments on: [Workflow] Complete Erik Almas Composite And Edit In 3 Minutes

By: janos_2

janos_2 — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:33:00 +0000

Photography in the service of commercial art, or “graphic design” as they call it.

By: stumpylumpy

stumpylumpy — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 10:54:00 +0000

after all that work it looks so real and believable , it just misses a lion sitting in the boat in my opinion for that extra Almas authenticity.

By: Abdul Cader

Abdul Cader — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:33:00 +0000

i agree with edlarrosa, the image of the model is placed in a wrong spot.. look at her hand on the pole & look at where she stands… it’s a sloppy photoshopped image. except that perspective thing, the feel is awesome!

By: jpgodwin

jpgodwin — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:53:00 +0000

Also, what I love most about this is the beginning. I sometimes doubt my abilities because I don’t see the best shot immediately, and it’s reassuring to know that even someone with as singular vision as Almas still takes hundreds of shots before landing on the right one.

By: John Godwin

John Godwin — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:03:00 +0000

God I love Almas’ work, it’s so brilliantly simple.

Subject/background/mid-ground element to join both.

Any detrctors of Erik’s work invariably have crap portfolios themselves. Purists: the kind of people who wish the Renaissance never happened.

By: John Godwin

John Godwin — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:45:00 +0000

Except that he took all of the photographs in the image himself. Which would require some skill.

By: Roman

Roman — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:32:00 +0000

Well. I can see the perspective is slightly off. Picture of model is taken from below her shoulders and picture of BG was taken with higher perspective, above her shoulders.
But the difference is so small that I wouldn’t notice it without analyzing the picture.

By: edlarrosa

edlarrosa — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 14:48:00 +0000

Impressive work.
But one thing that bugs me about the final image is that the model is standing in the wrong spot. The relationship between the top and bottom half of her body is wrong. Look at the original shot of her to see where her feet should be in relation to the pole…

By: Roman

Roman — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 02:14:00 +0000

Nine hours of work with computer… plus time to take both photographs.
He made a nice picture, but this is not a photography I like. I understand that now we have to be able to take a picture, process it, retouch it, compose it, model 3D objects, make a video and edit it… and charge just enough to cover our expenses…
I guess I will stay poor just taking pictures. All the computer work above processing and retouching is no fun for me.

By: Clay Kerri

Clay Kerri — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 01:54:00 +0000

two reasons why i don’t see it as feasible to shoot on-site.

scheduling with a model on a date that you’d be lucky enough to get that type of fog background would be insanely lucky.

getting that beautiful lighting on the model would be difficult in camera. In order to get that light, you’d have to have somebody with a strobe out on a boat. Which you’d have to composite out. You’d also still have to retouch the dock to get the same look he has here. either way, it’s going to be photoshopped like crazy. i think he just did it the more practical way.