Creating composites is not for everyone. You need to plan first. What is your vision? What backdrop do you want? Is it a dark scene, or a bright and airy scene?
In the making of this composite, I knew the kids had to be brightly lit, since its a bright background and outdoors.
First step: set up my lighting. I used a large umbrella and my speedlight, right in my entrance. The kids had to wear boots (would have been strange bare feet in an outdoor scene).
Step two: child labour. Just kidding, kind of! I asked my kids to get the kitchen chair to bring to the carpet. They then had to find the reindeer antlers and their boots, oh and make sure they were all in their matching pajamas.
Step three: making sure all my settings and lighting is correct. Cannot be too bright, or too harsh of shadows. This is trial and error for the lighting power. Lots of testing of placement, and power.
Step four: kids get over here!! I started with my youngest, since he has the shortest little attention span. And lets be real, would have freaked out if he wasn't first. So I had him sit on the chair, I showed him what to do, how to put his legs, pretend he was holding onto a sleigh, and told him to make a funny face. Low and behold, we got this image (IN ONE SHOT... CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!)
I then continued on, and got my two girls to pose also. One waving her arms to the left, the other to the right.
After these shots were done, I brought them into photoshop. I then carefully cut them out individually and pasted them into my background. After I placed all 3, I did some other adjustments to colour and size, and added more snow.
Voila, composite complete :)
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