I’ve decided to make a video of how I made my last image “upwards”. It was my first serious attempt to make a levitation image and naturally it made people wonder how I did it. It was fun to let them guess if I jumped, if I was standing on something and other theories. The answer is quite simple really. I used two different shots of me lifting each leg in the air. I used the first one as my main shot and then I combined it with the part from the second one that showed my other leg lifted from the ground. The key to these shots is to have a shot of the background without anyone in it, so that you can erase the parts you don’t want without leaving “holes” in the image. In my case I had forgotten to take such a shot, but luckily as I was trying different poses, I shot some where I was standing more to the left, so I used one of those.
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I’ve been flirting with levitation shots for quite some time, but I never actually got around to doing one. This seemed like a fine opportunity for something like that, so I took it. It wasn’t until I started working in photoshop, that I knew what I wanted to do with this picture. I had some shots where I was holding the umbrella down on the ground, so I decided to keep those too and use them for this picture. Had I planned this beforehand, I would have taken more shots of the umbrella on the ground. I think it would look better if there were black umbrellas lying on the ground all over the place. I could try to fake it using the shots I already had, but I didn’t like how it was looking, so I kept is as is.