photo of Gal Gadot from the upcoming Wonder Woman movie is pretty great.
@jemostrom I could be wrong, but it feels like the green and magenta are heavily photoshopped. Both hues are much less saturated on Gadot's face. Plus, the greens on the top of her wings and her right leg look especially painted on. I'm pretty sure the magenta highlights are on the wrong side of the wings too. The source is clearly supposed to be towards the right (from the highlight on her posterior) yet wing highlights would require the source to be in front of her to the left.
Today's crushing of imagination brought to you by a lifetime of looking at light. 😁 //@joelhamill
@Bruce You may be correct in all your observations but, my good sir, you will never crush my imagination!
@Bruce She played a big part in making a DC film not only watchable but pretty damn good, so bending light might have been a trivial exercise.
@Bruce I'm just a beginner myself but I see a few possibilities (I take for granted that there has been a lot of Photoshop work done): the first one is that it's a composite where she had to stay still and they lit her separately with the different colors. The second is that it's actually one image but that needs a lot of careful planning and I assume several light sources, if this is the case then I'm impressed how they have avoided reflections (I assume PS).
But in any way the end result is quite impressive
@Bruce In my case it’s my mass, not my awesomeness that bends light. I bought Wonder Woman on iTunes some time ago, but I haven’t seen it yet. Looking forward to it though!🙌🏻
@Bruce No, no. The magenta is black body radiation coming from heat dissipating out of those metallic feathers after a supersonic flight powered by the gas emitted from the adjacent orifice, which is still clearly radiating heat as well. 🤪
@fgtech Magenta isn’t on the spectrum emitted by black bodies—her awesomeness must be affecting the radiation from the metal.
@jemostrom Oh, it’s definitely a fantastic image. I just think most of the saturate “light” is painted via Photoshop (it’s not that hard to do. I learned most of the techniques during a single semester course in grad school. For this image Photoshopping the lighting is probably easier than actually creating the lighting in reality. 🤓)
@Bruce probably ... but it would be more fun/interesting to do it just with lighting (yes, I dream of actually being able to proper lighting ... I'll see if I can dig up my first real attempts)
@Bruce OK, you asked for it 🤪... so I'll be posting a series of pictures from about three years ago ... I don't know why I haven't done anything later than that because I really liked playing with the light. Most of the images are really basic lighting with two flashes just to try learn they worked
@jemostrom Have you tried using a kicker (what they call a high back diagonal in tv-land)? It would add some more dimensionality and separation from the background (if you were interested in something busier than a white cyc).
@jemostrom Similar, except it’s not directly behind the subject—rather it is offset to the right or the left. The highlight is as well, which adds some more dynamism than straight back light (hence “kicker”).
I don’t know much terminology for photographic lighting. My training is in theatrical/live performance. More than happy to answer questions and give advice though. 🤓💡
@Bruce yeah, these are things I've wanted to try but never come around doing. I've for example played with doing some light modifiers to do thing like that (from used milk packages 😋) and I've thought about doing a three light setup in the dojo and do some more portraits there. But so far it hasn't happened. But I suspect that my wife thinks I'm kind of weird ... I keep watching these lighting tutorials but I never do it myself 🤦🏻♂️. Well, perhaps this is the year when it happens ...