BeyondPhotoShoot

Turning regular photos into something spectacular by replacing the background in Photoshop is really powerful. My first photography mentor, Stefan Gesell, became a real icon by layering photos of his models over other backgrounds and textures.

 

Can you do that as well? Yes you can! The first thing you might want to try is downloading the Cover Page Template of my magazine. This allows you to place your model photographs onto the cover with minimum effort. That’s a quick little effect that’s going to make a lot of models very happy; it’s also a great eye catcher for social media:

 

 

To get the best from the template, you can isolate the model in your photo from the background and let her head overlap the magazine’s logo; like we are all used to seeing on the covers of famous magazines. 

Would you like some help with that? Most of you love the tutorials and eBooks of Ed Verosky. Ed has just released his latest book, which is about exactly this topic. In “Digital Backgrounds” he walks you through all the tricks and techniques required to isolate models from backgrounds and place them into new scenes in a way that is both believable and beautiful. Optionally, you can apply textures and voilà, you’ve created something exciting. The book comes with a lot of files including 40 backgrounds and textures to play with.

 

For the next 7 days Ed is offering our dear Good Light readers an awesome 25% launch discount when you apply your coupon code during check out:

 

Coupon Code: GOODLIGHT

 

 

Once you’ve had time to play around with it, feel free to share your best results on our Facebook page. I can’t wait to see your creations.

 

 

I wish you good light!

Michael

A beautiful model in an epic location with breathtaking light falling in through the windows. Is this enough to make a dream photo? I think in order to do our models justice we photographers have to make sure that we let our model shine in the photo much more than the location. We have to take care that the main light is on them and that disctractions are eliminated by cropping in tight or by underexposing the ambient. In this video I am grabbing an image submitted by the awesome Tony Sutton and applying some changes in Adobe Lightroom in order to hammer home the points that I personally would look for when photographing my models.