Retouching: Luder Part 1
This will be the first post of many on the subject of photographic retouching and the broader subject of compositing, also referred to as photomontage.
Luder is a band comprised of Detroit rock veterans. We did the imaging and design for their 2009 release, Sonoluminescence. We have posted the CD design before, but we have not yet discussed the photo retouching that was so important to the overall design. This is one ‘before and after’ example. More will follow in future posts.
CD cover – Retouch and Composite:
We shot the image outside in relatively neutral light. After loading the image into Photoshop, we knocked out the background, careful not to lose any detail from the figure. We placed the figure into a full resolution, square-format file. We added a sky image, some vector light rays and flares, and the unformatted text. All the elements were manipulated into one, cohesive image communicative of the concept we chose for the album.
If you need photo retouching or compositing performed, or you would like to learn how to do it, contact us for a quote.
MOCHIMAD made CNN with La Grande Bebe
On September 15, Sue Lott and Matthew Richards of MOCHIMAD traveled to Grand Rapids, Michigan to join a team of artists supporting Jonathan Haner and Teresa Holmberg in Haner’s entry for the world’s largest art competition, the Grand Rapids ArtPrize. The team built the world’s largest doll, La Grand Bébé—a 72-foot tall soft sculpture made of industrial plastic tarp and polystyrene foam. Sue Lott provided project management while Holmberg, still in Sweden, watched the project’s progress via Internet. Holmberg flew in for the final day of the build to stay through opening day at ArtPrize. Thanks to Grand Rapids native, Jen Walsh, news media leader CNN took great interest and broadcasted ongoing reports on the big baby’s progress. Matthew Richards’ and Sue Lott’s photography was emailed to Holmberg as the events unfolded and published with each CNN report. The Grand Rapids ArtPrize awards a grand prize of $250,000 and the winner is decided by popular vote. The city-wide competition is the first of its kind and runs from September 23 to October 10. We’ll be posting more as ArtPrize continues to catch the world’s attention.
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Additional photo work was performed during the build by the project’s official photo documentarian, Emily Jones. It and continuing photo documentation will be released after ArtPrize has concluded.
Luder Album Cover Design
Sonoluminescence, the upcoming new album by Luder, is slated for release early this fall. We had the pleasure of providing the concept, the photography and the graphic design.
Best of Detroit
Real Detroit Weekly’s ‘Best of Detroit’ issue has hit the stands, featuring beautiful cover art by our friend Kevin O’Rourke.
Real Detroit Weekly also named him ‘Best Cover Artist‘ in recognition for the work he’s done since living in Detroit.
Check out our shot of Kevin used for the feature in print and on the interweb.
Our previous post shows more pictures from that portrait session.
Kevin O’Rourke
We recently had the pleasure of photographing our good friend, Kevin O’Rourke.
Look for his feature in the upcoming issue of Real Detroit Weekly.
Rossinabossio.com Now Live
MOCHIMAD is proud to work with artists and musicians. We ARE artists and musicians, after all. One such artist is Colombian fine artist, Rossina Bossio.
Rossina’s former site was Flash-based and heavy on browsers, making navigating through her extensive portfolio cumbersome. Utilizing clean graphic elements provided by Rossina, we set up her new site in WordPress, the highly-customizable open source blog platform. What many people don’t realize is that WordPress is also very powerful for building dynamic web sites because of its excellent built-in content management system.
The new RossinaBossio.com is clean, functional, search engine-friendly, and most importantly, easy for Rossina to update whenever she gets a new exhibition or completes her latest commission.
All new www.rossinabossio.com!!! on Flickr
Medium Format Film
Shot on Fuji Pro 400 medium format film with all natural light. No Photoshop retouching performed.
