The finished project is at the bottom of the page.
The point of this project was to find a movie or TV show that both Leah and I liked, and we would then find a poster for said movie or TV show with our favorite characters. Then we would recreate the poster, utilizing my Photoshop skills to replace the characters in the poster with photos taken of my girlfriend and I! I learned a lot from this project about ambient light and how shadows and ambient occlusion can work together to create a realistic scene.
The first step in this fun project was to find a poster to recreate!
Here's the poster we chose. We almost look like the characters from Bones already!
The next step was to take a photo of us posing as the characters in the poster. My friend Ben helped us out with his steady hands for the camera.
The final step, and possibly the biggest step, was to plop us into the poster! To make things a bit easier for me, I happened across this teaser poster for the same season. This clear shot from the same angle of the chest was perfect to help erase the original characters' legs and replace them with our own.
Another bump in the road was that in our photo, my legs were up too high on that cardboard box for me to look realistically sitting on the chest. To make this look more realistic, as opposed to manipulating my legs, I simply placed this creative commons photo of a briefcase into the photo for me to put my feet on, and this seemed to do the trick, as you can see below.
Using black magic (and Photoshop CS6, the latest version at the time) I came up with this as the finished project! I printed this on glossy 12" x 18" poster paper, and Leah hung this up on her wall. People do a double take every time they see it because of how unexpected it is to see her and I
in a Bones poster!
in a Bones poster!
