Combining Photos/Composites

1/9/2022

This photo was created from only three plated Creme Caramels, not the six you see here. I achieved this though using a layer mask in Photoshop.

This saved me a lot of work in the kitchen, and gave me the chance to use Repetition as a composition style. Notice the one broken pudding, and how the eye goes staight to it.

This shot was taken in natural light on a dull morning, with a West Facing window. No diffusers were used. With composites, you need to take at least two photograhs to merge, so the light needs to be consistent.
See how I moved the plates to make two scenes I could combine.

These photos are unedited. I did a lightroom edit after I combined them. The broken creme caramel was not moved for the second photo. Adobe tutorials have an excellent video on Combining Images, which you can view if you have Photoshop. Finally I used the clone stamp tool to copy a plate into the top right and bottom left corner.

3) Begin to paint with brush tool to remove elements of layer to reveal the image below. To reverse and repair any of top layer select the areas in the tool bar to put white as foreground colour.

This is meant as an example of what can be done with Photoshop, and not a comprehensive teaching guide. Please refer to Adobe Tutorials for full instructions.

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A Wedding Breakfast
It was my pleasure to photograph a wedding breakfast created by Colline Watt, owner of Colline's Kitchen recently. With a bubbly and nurturing nature, it's no suprise to me that this mother from Zimbabwe wants to feed us all with delicious, fresh and sustainable food, along with a decadent cake or two, and how typical that, on the first date that weddings were permitted in the UK after lockdown, she got the call and I found her in a pretty garden with spectacular views piling food and flowers on to a table in a high wind, and creating an edible work of art.
Colline's successful cafe business, set in the historic Town Hall in the market town of Newbury has been put on hold since Lockdown in March, but she maintains a service, delivering food as diverse as Afternoon Tea and Mongolian beef stir fry, sourcing fresh ingredients locally. Find her at www.collineskitchen.com

BUNTING
When Jo, owner of The Bunting Basket asked me to photograph her bunting, I read her bio, and discovered how the business began, and how it came to be named The Bunting Basket. After making bunting for a family christening, Jo was innundated with requests for it from her friends and aqaintances, and she soon began to sell it at craft fairs, carrying her stock in a wicker basket. When I read this, I knew a picnic basket had to feature in my photographs. I looked at the fabric designs, and thought about the premise for the business and then began to prepare my shoot. Find her at www.thebuntingbasket.co.uk

Combining Photos/Composites

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