The industry has changed significantly over this time, with CanStock launched in 2004 during the early mass adoption of digital cameras, and before "social media" was even a phrase. I also want to share my editing process with you.Can Stock Photo has now ceased operations.Īfter nearly 20 years in business we have been forced to make this very difficult decision and would like to thank our many thousands of talented contributors and customers for making it possible. In the second one, I was inspired by the way the light was illuminating the tumble weed and when saw that one of my rain captures looked like flames, I knew I wanted to get a bit more creative and ended up combining the two shots to make it look like the tumble weed was on fire!
In the first capture, I loved her interaction with the plant, so I wanted to play that up and make it magical. I did not initially capture these shots with the intention of adding a bokeh overlay, It is usually something comes to me after I shoot, and when I sat down at my computer to edit these, I was so inspired to get creative!
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Read more: How to use Kelvin for White Balance I typically shoot around 5800 K at golden hour which I find gives me a very neutral base to start with. I also like to use Kelvin to set my white balance. I can always adjust my exposure later in Lightroom but you can’t recover any detail in completely blown highlights. I shoot in RAW and like to underexpose my shots in order to avoid blowing any highlights. There is a way to do multiple exposures in-camera, but this requires you to shoot one photo after another (which I, admittedly have never actually attempted.) For me, the creativity comes from being able to experiment with different shot/overlay combinations later in Photoshop.īelow are two SOOC (straight out of camera) shots that were taken the same evening. Typically, when I’m shooting for bokeh overlays, the bokeh shot and the base shot are completely separate.
The key for me when shooting with bokeh overlays in mind is to create as black of a background as possible, which can also be adjusted in Lightroom by dropping the shadows and black sliders.
Below is a favorite that I captured from that night. That image is what inspired me to create a bokeh overlay from rain being illuminated by a streetlight on the window. I have to give credit to Mindy and her incredible image of her little one in front of a rain illuminated window. Read more: 4 Fun Ways to Create Foreground Bokeh These bokeh overlays have inspired some of my more creative edits which are what I’m going to share with you today! Since then I have created bokeh overlays from Christmas tree lights, bubbles, as well as illuminated rain on a window. I knew I had to try it out for myself, and needless to say I was hooked, maybe even borderline obsessed! I first discovered double exposures this past Christmas when my Instagram feed was flooded with magical double exposures from Christmas lights.
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