People Photos
My photos of people, either posed or candid.
Here are 42 my favorite photos of people. Click on a thumbnail to view the full size image on Flickr. The image will open in your current window. You may right click on a thumbnail and choose Open in New Window or New Tab if you wish.
![Tim Bograkos - TEDx Lansing 5.20.11](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3384/5740987254_5e1ec3990f_s.jpg ""Don't Act Like a Fart in a Skillet."")
![Happy Towel Day 145/365](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3334/4640802434_3ee57cd87d_s.jpg "2010 Day 145
Happy Towel Day! <a href=\"http://towelday.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\">towelday.org/</a>
I decided to try a trick I saw in a photo magazine--masking yourself so it looks like you are floating or something. The important part is having matching backgrounds.
step 1: Found a simple background. My boring closet doors were perfect.
step 2: take a picture of the background by itself. I had my camera on a tripod and used the timer to avoid camera shake. Using Live View helped with lighting/focus.
step 3: picture of myself. same way as step 2.
step 4: dump it all into Photoshop. The original background is the bottom layer, the photo of me is the top layer. Added a Mask to the layer with me and "painted" myself out of the picture.
With a Mask, anything you paint Black disappears (this is preferred to erasing because you can just paint something White to bring it back). TIP: drop the Hardness of your brush down a bit so the edges aren't so jagged/sharp.
and that's pretty much it.
Lighting didn't turn out exactly as I would have liked, but I'm happy with this over all.
You can see I cut out parts of the towel, which is fine--I was going for more of a flying carpet look anyway.
I also wrote a <a href=\"http://danieljhogan.com/home/2010/06/03/flickr-photoshop-fun-how-to-disappear/\" rel=\"nofollow\">blog</a> about this process, which contains some helpful screen captures.")
You may also view these photos as a slideshow on Flickr. I have plenty of other photo sets on Flickr for your viewing pleasure.
The list below will take you to additional photography samples on my site. Enjoy.
Animal Photos :: Attraction Lost :: Black and White Photos :: Escape to Alcatraz :: Event Photos :: Food Photos :: Lansing Photos :: Photoshop :: Still Life Photos :: Travel Photos
