Archive for November, 2009
Refuse truck, in all it’s glory!
by Bob on Nov.11, 2009, under Personal
Ever wonder how to make a ho-hum photo of a refuse (ie: garbage) truck appear less…. um, trashy?
Here is the original photo.
The assignment was to give the truck some “love” and make it “pop”! The first order of business was to select an appropriate background. Bill Luebker of The Karma Group brought this project to Image Studios and he had some suggestions. Since the original shot (before this one) was done in New York City it was decided to keep the feel urban. I scoured our extensive library of stock photos and found a shot done by Rob Resnick of a housing development. In the animation below you can see the steps involved to assemble and transform into the final image.
I would like to thank Bill Luebker and The Karma Group for choosing Image Studios to do the technical work on this photo and allowing me the creative freedom to make it happen. Also, thank you to Rob for providing the background image.
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A Little About Me
I became interested in photography shortly after high school. My first camera was a fully manual SLR in 1982. I made the switch to digital in 1999. In the time between those two dates I studied engineering, computer programming, sold photo retail, managed photo labs, photographed weddings and portraits and got married myself. In 1993 I found Image Studios and they were gracious enough (or desperate enough) to hire me to manage their photo lab. By 1998 it was apparent that digital photography was the future so I became a student of Photoshop. Here I found a way to combine both my technical nature and my love of photography. It wasn't long before I was employed full time as a Photoshop Operator. Today, I am still producing photographic composites via Photoshop for Image Studios.
Photoshop Samples
