Chapter 5. Photography and Compositing
ETHEREAL, 2008
Covered in this Chapter
• Camera accessories
• Manual exposure controls
• Editing RAW files in Photoshop’s ACR editor
• Shooting various subjects for a composite archive
• Lighting strategies for a composite
Photography is the backbone to compositing, and there’s nothing like shooting all your own material for a project. It gives you total control over your creativity, so you are not bound by the parameters or dependency of always using stock photography. Consider Ethereal (at right) for example. Shooting my own clouds and manually controlling the exposure for each shot ...
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