Fly Girl

Today I was doing some photoshoots for the fashion journal, and when I was done, found myself fooling round in front of the camera. (I was pleased with how wavy my hair was after being in a plait yesterday and wanted to photograph it for posterity as I’m planning to cut it off soon). A few playful shots of tossing my hair turned into a concept for a flying girl picture.

Flying girl of course won’t be convincing if she looks like she’s standing on tiptoe, so I pulled out a little stool and poised to jump. It was tricky timing the jump with the camera shutter. It was on a two second timer, and it took quite a few frames to figure exactly when to leap so that the flash would catch me midair.

I ended up with three or four usable shots, and with a bit of Photoshop trickery, merged one of those with a shot of my upper body. Add a bit of motion blur, and I was ready to fly.

Unhappy with my own existing cloud photographs, I logged onto StockXchng and sourced an image of golden clouds in a blue sky that happily had a moon in it. (I made that bigger.) I also needed to match my skin tone with the background, and used a Deep Yellow Photo Filter. Then I added a few more grungy effects using PhotoFrame just for kicks. I’m flying!

And just for fun I did an underwater version as well, finding another great image on StockXchng of water bubbles. I’m swimming through hoops!

Thanks to Antonio Gillo for the ‘Clouds and Moon’ image, and Oktaviani Marvikasari for the ‘Water Bubbles’ photo.