Wednesday, January 7, 2015

"Regular" People are fitness models without Photoshop

From Benjamin Wong

You see the clothes and sports equipment ads: People strive muscle shows determination to win a little pain, but still. Otherwise, surpassing other, leaving behind their own borders.

These are professional athletes and fitness models for the development and definition of physics are the job requirements. Ordinary people never look like this, right? At least not with a good dose of magic of Photoshop.

Do not be so sure.

From Benjamin Wong photographer was doing a photo shoot for the web hosting company image Smugmug. The company wanted the gym walls with portraits of sports to fill their own employees. This meant people could not be pumped numerically past reality.

Wong took the challenge to know the true power of photography is not twist pixels on the computer, but photographers, lighting, composition, accessories and games use to unforgettable images. Black fund $ 20 rain machine at home - garden PVC Pipes and tubes - contributed to more efficient lighting, which Nike appearance, mini-documentary video shows below.



"When the people saw the photos, it was a lot of shock and awe," said Stephanie Drazic Front Office Executive. "People do not think it's what it looked like. They look and go," What he has to also capture this image? Do not even think I looked like that. "

"I am a grandmother of 62 years," said Toni MacAskill, who has the title of Countess of cash. "Ben is used for shooting beautiful young models. And yet somehow manages me go too big."

Some people started cunning. Others, not so much. But the headlamp unit helped develop, the shadows, the muscular contours. And by Wong worked with themes by various movements, times and feelings encourage them to give more than a static posture.

From Benjamin Wong


It was a bit of post-processing in Photoshop and reduction of raindrops done if it was too annoying. But the main components are the people themselves and the eye of a good photographer.

If the story behind the shooting began his interest, a number of them on its website by Wong prepared, including an underwater filming, in case of rain, the machine was not wet enough for you.

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