Alright.

Hello everyone! I would really apprciate if you would help me:]
So, if you don't know what levitation in photography is, i'll explain it. But if you already know, than skip to my question:]

The product should look like this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kayteecallahan/5153398680/ (This is my picture)

SO, you take a picture of your setting. You cannot move the camera after this, so a tripod helps. Take a stool or a ladder and balance, sit stand or do whatever you want on it. Take a picture of you doing that. Make sure your camera stayed in one spot the whole time. So you have these two pictures. Use GIMP to layer them. Put a white layer on them. Than take the black paint brush to erase the ladder or stool. Than you smooth out the edges with the smudge. and WALLA!

My Question is.. :

How did this person achive levitation with the reflection.. and not have the reflection of the ladder or stool?
Picture: http://weheartit.com/entry/5417608

Please get back to me as soon as possible!

I may have more questions!

BUT

The top layer, with your image shown "levitating" can have the entire background removed, where as the bottom layer image of the environment is minus the chair, stool, etc. So there would be no shadow cast on the original and bottom-most layer.

I'm not totally certain the photographer used that process, though, just saying that for image layers, you can take multiple shots, and not include the stool or object that is used to "levitate" someone.

I've used a technique like that. I just duplicate the image I want to reflect, flip it, place it into position. You can then apply some some distorting effects, like spread then blur, and finally transparency. That's a simple way. Adding other artistic effects work great also.

Yes the image with the reflection is probably a bg with a rendered person.
Then just duplicate the render flip it and set the opacity real low.

How would you duplicate and flip?
And I know if there was a stool the dress wouldnt be fliped up like that. They must have made it look like it fliped up some how. How would they do that? And could they have made the hair more crazy with IWarp?


Annnddd ONE MORE QUESTION.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lissyl/4777005453/

Could she have made the apples bigger with IWarp?

I know I asked how she could have done that before, but there has to be an easier way!

To me, the model looks like her picture was taken in two different poses; her pose is impossible otherwise. The image was cut off at about the waist with the legs and bottom of dress in one image and the rest in another. Something could have been stuck inside the skirt or a wind machine to make it stand up like that.

It was hard to find a model facing sideways to the camera, but I found this one and cleaned it up as best I could. I then flipped the image horizontally and vertically so she would be in a lying position.

Next, I cut the model off at the bottom of the skirt so I'd have the legs in one layer and the rest in another.

I used the rotate tool to rotate both of the layers and kind of put it back together. She's nothing like the lady in the picture but I think it demonstrates what they did.



Not a good replica but just to show how.

Nicely done O! =)

Yeah, basically the same thing as shifting the camera scene sideways, to make someone look like they are scaling a wall. Good example, O.

Another thought that came to mind was she could have been in a rope swing and airbrushed it out.

Rope swing sounds good, mahvin. I think her head may have been adjusted to have it farther back too.

oh man..
what tools did you use and stuff to get the reflection?

Here is an image I put in a colored background. I duplicated the layer the model facing up is on.

Then Layer > Transform > Flip Vertically to a layer and she is now facing down. I used the move tool to put her below the facing up model.

I lowered the Opacity of the face down model (See where arrow is pointing in the image) so that the background shows through. Note that I put the picture of the layers below that image and you can see her skirt overlapping it.

Here's a photo of a levitated woman and just a very little bit of reflection on a wet surface.

http://thewondrous.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/52.jpg

I like what they've done here.

great bokehs and shadows in the second one!

It is not really a reflection.Just a rendered copy of the woman or model flipped, and then set at a very low opacity, almost transparent. That gives you the effect of a reflection.

O - The shadowed one is very cool, getting that effect would be pretty easy too, but tedious i am sure.
Especially with the shadowed hair.That background removal tutorial utilizing the levels or curves tool
would probably work.Then just keep the B&W layer.Select the model part of the layer, feather a little - copy to another layer - flip it - and set the blur and opacity.

That way you could get the intricate parts of the hair in the shadow.
I may have to try this one