Patriotic Pup

Henry as Patton

Dog Blog Post #1833

Here's Henry, doing his best George C. Scott from the movie "Patton" imitation.

Photography Assignment

Daily Dog Challenge 1340. "Patriotic Pup"

Our Daily Challenge - July 2, 2015 - "On Your Bucket List"

I don't actually have a photography bucket list - perhaps I should - but I do like to recreate images from famous sources when I have the time and the challenges "fit".

Today was the perfect opportunity to try recreating a famous still from the 1970 Oscar winning movie "Patton".

I've recreated old-master art before, but I can't remember ever trying a movie scene and that seems like something that should be on my list, if I had one.

Behind the Scenes

Henry was shot against a green screen...

Henry

The flag...

Old Glory

... is your standard 4'x6' house flag, and was shot hanging from the cabinets like any other backdrop would be.

It was cropped tight, the creases cloned away, the saturation was upped and the blue field darkened a bit as the fabric was a tad too transparent.

Photoshop Elements was used to merge the two together.

I did take pictures of Zachary, but only had time to mask one shot as fur is rather time consuming to mask.


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Chillin'

Henry, whatcha doing?

Henry: "Relaxin'"

Oh... that's nice.

Wait...

What's that in your glass?

Henry: (blink blink)

Zachary!

Mr. Cool

Dog Blog Post #1832

You would think he could at least pour me one.

Photography Assignment

Our Daily Challenge - July 2, 2015 - "Iced Beverage"

Daily Dog Challenge 1339. "Maxin' And Relaxin'"

Still Mr. Cool

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Fog?

Zachary: "Ahhhhhhh!"

Henry: "Hmmmm"

Zachary: "Ahhhhhhh!"

Henry: "Hmmmm"

Dog Blog Post #1831

Wasn't I surprised to find fog in my studio (aka Kitchen).

Photography Assignment

Our Daily Challenge - July 1, 2015 - "Taken By Surprise"

Daily Dog Challenge 1338. "Unexpected"

The picture of Zachary is of him catching Cookies layered with a picture of "fog" I "painted" using Procreate on my iPad.

Henry's picture has the same fog image but a more standard pose.

The images went through a basic post-processing in Lightroom (cropping/exposure tweaking) then were shipped off to Photoshop Elements to be combined with the fog (Zachary was masked and put in front and Henry put behind a mask of the fog), then shipped back to Lightroom to be turned into B&W images.

Originals

Zachary: "Ahhhhhhh!"

Henry: "Hmmmm"

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