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Flower Bed (2)


 
BetterPhoto.com Photo Contest Finalist   Flower Bed (2)
Flower Bed (2)

Johannes Kornelius

 
 

Johannes Kornelius

 
 
 

Johannes Kornelius
 

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September 14, 2006

 

Melissa A. Mannon
  beautiful loving pose. And I adore your effects! nice lighting. fabulous image!


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September 14, 2006

 
- Maria Warren

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  very nice I love it


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September 14, 2006

 

Lynn Crawford
  Oh Wow Johannes, love this effect of adding the flowers, really beautiful job, wish I had this skill :)


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September 14, 2006

 
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  Johannes, excellent clarity, lighting and effects.


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September 14, 2006

 
- Kay E. Mahoney

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  Beautiful. Love the result.


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September 14, 2006

 

Helen N. McHugh
  Wow ,Johannes, this is amazing!! Beautiful portrait & the effects are just brilliant!! Amazing skill!


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September 15, 2006

 

Johannes Kornelius
  Melissa,Maria,Lynn,Janine,Kay and Helen, thank you all for your comments.


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September 15, 2006

 

Stefan Kanya
  Hello Johannes,
how did you seperate the children from the blue background, keeping all that detail in the hair?

Stefan


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September 16, 2006

 

Johannes Kornelius
  Hi Stefan, I use Primatte 2.0 plugin for Photoshop to separate the subject from the bluescreen. You may see the plugin tutorial in:

www.digitalanarchy.com

If you want to extract manually try to search for "photoshop extract hair" on the net. You will find some tutorials on this subject.


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September 19, 2006

 

Datha Y. Thompson
  WOW!! Beautiful children and expressions!! Love EVERYTHING!! Excellent work Johannes :0)


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September 20, 2006

 

Johannes Kornelius
  Thanks Datha.


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September 23, 2006

 

Stefan Kanya
  Hi Johannes,
thank you for your tip. I've looked at your gallery and I'm fascinated. Great work johannes! You make a lot of parents very happy! I suppose you have a library of foregrounds and backgrounds and some objects and then you compine them with the young kids.

Did you shoot the kids in a studio, maybe with a certain simple background to easely seperate them?

Best regards,
Stefan


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September 24, 2006

 

Johannes Kornelius
  Hi Stefan,
Thanks for visiting my gallery. From the first time I started, I did not have any painted background. I bought only a plain blue background with one thought to create something out of it. At that time I was hoping to create outdoor scenes as natural as possible inside a small space studio. It's a long struggle but it is rewarding. The backgrounds were painstakingly added one at a time. I have made a few themes, such as Little Garden, Cloudscape, Sunset.

Some of the digital backgrounds have multi layers. Taken photo is inserted in between foreground and background layer to create more realistic photo. For every subject must be shot against plain background. In this case I use blue for more effective extraction.

I will add one sample of sunset with the original shot and studio setup to give you some idea shortly after this.


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September 28, 2006

 
- Kay E. Mahoney

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  Congratulations on your beautiful finalist. Good luck in the next round.


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October 26, 2006

 

Lavone Vannoy
  CONGRATULATIONS!!! Your work is awesome!! :)


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October 27, 2006

 
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  Johannes, congratulations on your finalist.


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October 27, 2006

 

Lynn Crawford
  Congrats Johannes on being a finalist with this great image, wonderful work :)


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October 27, 2006

 

Donna La Mattino Pagakis
  Sweet image, great work!! Congratulations!!!


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October 27, 2006

 

Johannes Kornelius
  Kay,Lavone,Janine,Lynn and Donna. Thanks alot for your comments and support.


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October 28, 2006

 

Datha Y. Thompson
  CONGRATULATIONS Johannes!!!! IM A huge fan of your work!!! LOVE THIS Good Luck to you in the next round!! :0)


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October 29, 2006

 

Jill Lenkowski
  Great job! The after turned out so nice.


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November 02, 2006

 

Johannes Kornelius
  Datha,Jill.Thank you so much.


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November 03, 2006

 
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