Floating Camera

[edmDusty]

Ooops supposed to say floating Cell Phone...



I used very little photoshop on this picture. I got the floating look by shooting from below through a sheet of glass. Here's my set up:

[Dirt_Bike_Ryda]

. thats a set up and a half.. good work mate. love the finnished image.

[david335]

Really good work. But could you specify a little more on what you did in photoshop. I am curious what you needed to fix. Also I love your setup you utilized three lights to their maximum.

[Mandy73]

Great photo, but I agree with David please give more info on set up and editing. Brilliant effect well done...

[edmDusty]

Thanks for the compliments everybody.

If I remember right, post process =

1) slight adjustments to exposure and contrast in Adobe Bridge RAW editor.
2)There was a little glare from the glass so I ran a "De-Fog" trick I learned. = Unsharp mask > First slider on 60, second on 40 (or maybe 20), third on zero.
3)This made the shadow on top look bad so I used the history brush on it.
4)Made a new layer and used the spot healing brush to clean up the spots on the glass in the highlights. There was a big scratch in the glass so I used the clone tool to fix that up.
5) New layer and cleaned up the smudges in the shadows. The smudges really showed up in the shadows and it was very difficult to fix this due to the gradation. If you look close you can still see crap in the shadow.
6) I played around with the shadow a little bit trying to make it even, but ultimately didn't like anything I did and deleted it (that's why I always work on new layers for each new task.)
7) Cropped it and reduced the size and did a little (maybe too much?) sharpening

The spotlight and the shadow is all from the lighting. If I had a super clean piece of glass I wouldn't have had to do much post at all.

The setup =

Garage light with a daylight balanced light to camera left shooting through some drafting paper. Garage lamp with the same light shooting through the glass. Desk lamp with daylight balanced light and a built in grid type snoot for the spot light on the background. I had my camera upside down in the tripod and I had to lay on my back to "Chimp" the shot.