Photoshop – Vodka advert

It’s been a while since I updated my blog, this can be explained mostly by school projects not having been the type of photography that inspires me as well as being busy with other things.

We had another course with Jan Christian Sørli this time on how to make photoshop composits.

We started off learning some basics, setting us up to do some simple mistakes so that we would learn not to do them again.

We finished off the course with having to make an alcohol commercial, since alcohol bottles tend to be better looking than soda and water bottles… and since Norway is very possibly allowing alcohol commercials again (due to EU regulations).

Here is the “final” result and a quick video showing how its built up.



I do plan on fixing some of the small mistakes that I didnt have time and pictures to do. Adding a more realistic “into the water” bit, getting rid of the splashes a bit/replacing them with some taken in more correct light, as well as getting som more waves in there.

No Dawn – CD Cover

Finished off the CD cover photos last night, today was spent getting the CD cover printed, drinking coffee with Martine and Bjørn, an impromptue barbeque down by the harbour an video editing (from stills). Having never used any video editing software before, I am fairly happy with the result (though I did run out of images to use fairly fast… and i did get slightly nauseaus from all the flashing and movement in the video).

Will try to get the video onto the blog later, but need the bands permission before I post it, since it has their song in it…

In the meanwhile (or instead if it so happens…) here are the images I used for the CD cover. First 12 are from the booklet (#1 being front cover, #12 being the back side of the booklet) Last two are the back cover.

Thanks to BT for helping out as my model for the studio photos.

Thanks to No Dawn for letting me take live photos and for getting me an mp3 to use with my video.

Photoshop Exam = Done

Been working on my Photoshop exam the last couple of days… I chickened out and did one I knew I could do rather than attempting on of the harder ones… oh well…

The angle of the hand, and the expression in the eye etc arent quite right, but think the overall photoshopping is decent:

I threw in some easter eggs in there as well :)

Click image for larger version. The one on the left is my version, the one on the right is the original