thanks for the advice !
i have already ready thought about photoshopping it tho and it was not very successful, i always try to get a close can a i can on film and then touch it up later . i think i'm going to experiment with acetate paper and try to project bits of film on to my model :)

This was the photo we used as the inspiration for shooting our jewelry editorial. We didn't want to do another studio looking shot, plus our studio was for product/jewelry photography, not model photography, as it's very small, so we had to make it work, to bring the element of "outdoor" shoot to the look, without having to shoot outside. We had to find a solution to our limitation. What made the photo worked was the studio lighting-to light it so that the model has a natural glow over the top of her head, as if sun light was shinning upon her. Once we achieved that, merging the 2 photos became very easy. So it's not about photoshop doing the work, the photographer has to know the lighting and how to balance the lighting so the 2 photos would work together.

yes i'll defiantly put some test shots on soon !
i'll need some opinions as i need these to be great as university is very soon and i need my portfolio to be perfect !

Hello HarryLeek,
to give you a very straight answer to your question , it is simply two pictures overlaid in Photoshop.The clouds were shot on my little 'point and press' Leica and Carmen was shot on old out of date 10/8 colour poalroid in daylight with exposures of 20 or 30 seconds.
To be honest with you by that point in what was a very difficult shoot I had adopted the mindset of just open the camera lens and some image will register on the film .I was quite enjoying the freedom of letting Carmen move around and refocusing blind and moving the camera during the exposure and in fact not even trying to time the exposure at all.I wanted to free myself of the reality of what was in front of me to try and find something I couldn't see just by looking. The styling was so strong that i knew if i could find some way of 'letting go' I would get to the essence of what Panos( the stylist) was trying to create.
I hope that is helpful.
I think the thrust of the comments by other people in response to your enquiry HarryLink is that you won't learn anything important about yourself and your own work and therefore your own 'problems' by just finding out how other people solve theirs.
Good luck in any case.
Nick

Hi Nick...I missed this live shoot (Clown), and Ive just had a look on the Archive for it...nothing 'cept one small image of you shooting...quite frustrating that many of your live shoots are simply that, miss 'em and you've missed 'em!? No footage to load ?? Ive seen the images in Another Magazine, GREAT! Always good to see you being more creative with your editorial stuff, Im sure advertising can be alittle restrictive, though you still get to play alittle, otherwise why book Mr Knight...!? So...footage of Clown shoot please....

thank you very much nickknight !
i'll write this all in my sketch book,
oh and i saw your showstudio exhibition on friday... it was amazing !
i loved the sleep photos but i missed your live shoot.
oh and the book its brilliant.

hello ...

some of you wanted to see the finished results of my project.... so here they are.