Lysson and Doble
Added 2017-03-30 18:27:49 +0000 UTCGrateful my friend Doble brought his friend Lysson from NYC for our latest collab, and inspired me to do this concept.
Notice, similar to my recent "At the piano" post, that Lysson is not merely see-through. This is not two images shot from the exact same angle, with and without the model, where one layer has a lowered opacity. The "digital bodypaint" layer is purposefully in-focus, with a slightly changed angle and, most notably, composed of separate pieces (such that, for example, the pattern breaks when your eye goes from Lysson's breast to her stomach, or from her side to the arm pressed against it, or even from finger to finger). A subscriber has asked for more details about my editing process, so I'll point out one thing I've learned from doing these images.
I discovered early on, if I merely start with the base image (with the model in the frame) and then blend a layer onto her skin, doing one body part at a time, then the overlap of the blend layers will make a darkening, an obscured coastline of overlap image meeting overlap image. I discovered that I really need to flatten the layers each time I do an overlap layer, and then turn off that overlap layer and do the whole process again for each body part. That way, I could mask only the flattened layers, and do the precision work only after I'd finished the overlays. Without that, I'm forced to do an edit process similar to tan-line removal, which I hate doing.
