PHOTO COMPOSITING

Photo compositing is necessary when basic photo retouching needs to be taken up a notch to include multiple head and/or body part swaps and complicated blending of multiple images. I have done this professionally for various networks including Discovery and TLC. I often use these skills for my own personal photography as well. 

TLC Dragnificent!

The client asked for a composite using these 5 separate images. This project required masking out figures, recreating shadows, and seamlessly blending in head and body swaps. Lighting, coloring, highlights and shadows had to remain consistent in order to make the final composite appear natural.
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TLC The Blended Bunch

This show art image required 4 head swaps and a brand-established background change which required masking out figures, recreating shadows, and seamlessly blending in separate images. Lighting, coloring, highlights and shadows had to remain consistent in order to make the final composite appear natural. Basic retouching and the addition of an arm on the right side were also required.
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TLC Unpolished

The client asked to have two of the figures in the image replaced. This project required masking out figures, recreating shadows, extending the floor and edges of feet, cleaning up hair and basic retouching.
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TLC Counting On

The client asked to have three of the figures in the image replaced. This project required seamless blending of head and body swaps, cleaning up the floor and basic retouching.
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TLC Sister Wives

The client asked to have two of the heads in the image replaced. This project required seamless blending of head and body swaps, masking out figures and recreating shadows in order to match a brand-established background color. Basic hair clean up, retouching and color correction was also needed.
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Group family photo

Group family photo

My family and I were traveling together on a cruise and decided to book a session with the professional photographer on board. My youngest daughter was in her terrible twos, super clingy, crying and burying her head in my shoulder through most of the shoot. Add that to 3 other antsy kids and 6 tired adults and it made for a pretty difficult photo session. The photographer took hundreds of shots but none of the group ones came out well. By using my compositing skills, I was able to combine different pieces of multiple shots to finally create these perfect images.
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Personal photo

How do you get two toddlers to pose for the camera? The girls were dressed for photos with Santa so I wanted to seize the opportunity to get a good photo to use for holiday cards. I took about 20 shots and not a single one had both of them looking and smiling at the camera at the same time. So I took to the computer and created my own perfect shot using these two images.