How to shoot against gravity

The fantasy of floating photos is overwhelming, and many photographers and friends can't help but try it. Creative and interesting images emerge one after another, and those anti-gravity visual effects are both fresh and subversive, which makes people envious. However, many photographers still have a little knowledge of the mystery. Today, Bian Xiao invited users to talk about the creative process of her floating works, share exclusive practical tutorials and improve your photography level.

1. What is antigravity?

Capture the jumping moment:

The picture above is a photo of a Japanese floating girl that became popular at the beginning of the year. Many photographers are surprised to know how to shoot it, and then they will wonder if it is a late PS. Because it is incredible that those normal movements stay in the air. In fact, this kind of photography is actually very easy to achieve, just a simple snapshot, and then select the most incredible and true film from many scattered films.

Borrow props:

Of course, some of them are post-processed by art, and some simple adjustments are made through simple shooting techniques and equipment combined with Photoshop, but everything seems incredible and difficult to distinguish between true and false. We have seen such artistic creation in many movies, and we are deeply impressed.

In fact, shooting floating does not need too complicated props, mainly through the transformation of environment and lens. Of course, the most important thing is the performance of the characters. The movements and expressions must be natural in order to take a perfect photo.

Props: In fact, the whole prop is very simple, two stools (one has no backrest, the other is a little better looking), and a beautiful woman whose hair dances lightly with the skirt.

1. Choice of clothing and environment

The styling of hair and skirt is the main visual center, so we must let them flutter naturally, otherwise they will look particularly artificial and stiff. The method I used is very simple. I need to communicate well with the model, and then let the model hold her hair and skirt with her hands. Before pressing the shutter, let the model put her hair and skirt aside, and then I'd better set the camera to continuous shooting mode and take instant images continuously. The success rate is still very high, and then we have to pick out the most natural movements.

In addition to the shape of skirts and clothes, the shape of the body is also particularly important. In order to make the body look natural and light, the choice of fulcrum is very important. I just need to choose two fulcrums. One is a bench, which can support the main center of gravity of my body. The other chair is placed on the foot, so that the beautiful woman's foot can be gently placed on it to support her body and adjust her leg shape at will.

Step 3 shoot the same scene twice

The most important step comes, why the processed pictures will look so real, because all the elements are taken from the same scene. I took two pictures when shooting, one was a scene with people and the other was an empty scene without people. In post-production, props can be covered more naturally. As for the treatment method, we will talk about it in the next step.

1. Drag to the screen to draw the selection.

Drag someone's picture into an empty environment, generate a new layer and align it.

Use the pen tool to follow the girl's body, roughly outline the scope of the stool, draw a good path, and hold down the shortcut key Ctrl+Enter to turn the path into a constituency.

2. Cover up and downplay

Create a mask and cover it on the stool, and the effect will come out immediately.

Now is the color matching step, which is more troublesome. First, draw a circle on the girl's limbs and brighten it with the exposure adjustment layer. Then use the curve tool to adjust the colors of different channels. Then use the color balance adjustment, and the green-red value is-12. Light blue-green uses positive overlay mode to project light blue on the picture. Filled with deep purple, the superposition method is repulsive. Then adjust the color tendency with optional colors, which is the key to tone formation.