Jack Watson - Green Screen Glamour Photography Made Easy: How to Create Beautiful Composite Glamour Images Using Green Screen Technology

How to Create Beautiful Composite Glamour Images Using Green Screen Technology

By Jack Watson

Green Screen Glamour Photography Made Easy: How to Create Beautiful Composite Glamour Images Using Green Screen Technology

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Watson, Jack, 1947

Green screen glamour photography made easy : how to create beautiful composite glamour images using green screen technology with DVD & software / by Jack Watson.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN-13: 978-1-60138-673-1 (alk. paper)

ISBN-10: 1-60138-673-7 (alk. paper)

1. Glamour photography. 2. Photography--Special effects. 3. Cinematography--Special effects. 4. Computer graphics. 5. Digital video. I. Title.

TR678.W375 2011

778.9974692--dc22

2011001444

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Acknowledgements

A camera and a photographer are only two-thirds of the glamour photograph equation. Without beautiful models to photograph, this book would not have been written. My praise and endless thanks to my great friends and always available models Jennifer, Trisha, Heather, Suzie, Alexa, Gail, Bernie, Brittini, Heidi, Lisa, Jamie Lee, Samantha, Danielle, Mia, Tali, and Nikki. Without your tireless effort and beautiful looks, this would just be another ordinary book on photography. Special thanks to my friends, Jeff and Peggy for providing me their beautiful Smoky Mountains cabin as a retreat during the writing of this book. Thanks to Brad Goldbach for his brilliant editing of my technical manuscript. You simplified a complex subject brilliantly. My publisher, Doug Brown, deserves special recognition, and thanks. I am honored that you believe in me and continue to support my writing endeavors. The layout and design of this book is a tribute to the incredible Jackie Miller. She amazes me with her artistry and passion for taking words and photos and crafting them into something beautiful.

A very special thanks is in order for the generous support and assistance provided by FXhome , its founder Joshua Davies, and senior staff members Lucy Harvey and Simon Jones. Your amazing PhotoKey 3 Pro keying software has truly changed my photographic perspective, and because of you, I have become a much better image creator.

My dear friend Mary Thornton, president of www.starwearusa.com , the most amazing swimwear company on the planet, graciously provided wardrobe for the majority of images in this book.

Additional thanks to my dear friend Dave Hurley, who showed me the beauty of the Bahamas aboard his magnificent yacht and gave me the opportunity to photograph its beautiful beaches.

Last, but most important, I must express my undying gratitude and love for the support and tolerance of my first and best model, my lovely wife Leigh.

Foreword

Because you are reading this book, you must love photography. You look forward to shooting pictures, and you are always looking for new ways to capture images. Some of you might not have the budget to go places that are far away and shoot models on location. All of us envy the top shooters who seem to have large, expansive budgets to go just about anywhere and shoot anything.

Most working photographers feel limited in their scope of locations and available places to shoot. As budgets get increasingly smaller for beauty and advertising assignments, we will all feel that pinch to do it less expensively than flying to a distant location.

As a professional photographer, I have been lucky for most of my career. I have been shooting on location in foreign countries for 30 years, and I would not trade those experiences for anything in the world. Many of my clients paid me and my crews handsomely to go to exotic locations, and the budgets have always been large enough to hire assistants to carry equipment, fly in models, lodge in great hotels, eat good food, and purchase other luxuries. These perks have added to my reputation as an expensive travel and lifestyle shooter, who always comes back with the perfect image.

I would not say it has been an easy career, as there are inherent problems and dangers in traveling to many of the places I have worked. We have worked in well over 170 counties on all seven continents, and it has not been all fun and games. However, we have had the budgets to go anywhere to shoot models and assignments that many people in this career only dream about. My website ( www.billbachmann.com ) shows many of those assignments.

In the last ten years, I have seen many budgets shrink drastically, and clients now worry about all the line items in the estimate, much more than they did previously and it does not appear that it will improve much in the near future. Budgets are likely to stay low for some time.