August 3, 2022

How I Create a Self Portrait Composite | Alberta Fine Art Portrait Photographer

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Hello Lovelies and welcome to my first education blog!

Below, you’ll find a video on how I did a simple composite using a couple of self-portraits I took today. These images were fully edited in lightroom when I brought them into photoshop (I used a preset that I created myself based off of a film photo I’ve seen). However, I did edit out the clouds after I saved the composite back into lightroom because they were bothering me (I just used the lightroom heal tool).

A few notes before we dive in: one of the reasons these images go together so seamlessly is because I used a tripod and I planned the shot I wanted ahead of time so I knew where I needed to be in the frame for each of the shots to avoid complex editing in photoshop (I edit 99.9% of my images using only lightroom and I avoid photoshop like the plague). Some people recommend duplicating your base layer before you get started (which is smart in the event you fuck up and need to start over) but I never do that (living on the edge over here).

If you have any questions; feel free to ask. These composites are so fun, and if you try this and post them, please tag me so I can see them!

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Sasha = Half-feral, visual memoirist and earth mystic with a talent for offending people unintentionally. I have a BA in English with emphasis on psychology and mythology and I will likely spend the rest of my life studying the intimate weaving between those three fields and marinating in my own personal folklore. 

I believe art is a sacred practice of presence that emerges organically through the audacity to believe that your lived experience is worthy of witness.  
 

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