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Photoshop Composites

A composite needed to be created using the two sisters and the black dog for Coroner Season 1. To tie it all together with the story's main character (shown below), I was also tasked with giving the dog red eyes. The tricky part is that the dog's eyes were closed in the photo that I had to work with. The rest was a matter of getting all the colours and grass to blend. 
A family photo was requested in a time well before the husband Vic started working out, and when the wife Shanti was pregnant. The two shots on the left were taken knowing that we needed to put Vic's head on the thinner actor. My job was to swap the heads, colour correction, and to soften some of the highlights and veins. As you can see below, sometimes hyper detailed photoshop work is more for the background than it is for front and centre storytelling. 
Photoshop Composites
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Photoshop Composites

Process work to show photo composites for TV/Film from start to finish, and how they look on camera.

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