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Salsa Jeans – "Wonder"

Madail — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:08:32 +0000

Another work for jeans advertising. I was asked by the photographer to remove the white background. I suggested some concrete wall, urban style. I made the concrete wall in 3D, and then composited the original photo with the render, and edited the photo as needed – modifying body parts, shapes, colors, etc until the desired look was achieved. Check the before/after comparison.

Client: Sérgio Matos | Software used: 3dsmax, Photoshop

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Salsa Jeans – ONE

Madail — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:08:31 +0000

Another work for jeans advertising. This time the photographer had some sets of photographs taken of the models in front of a mirror, one at a time. With those i would then make masks and use them in an environment. This is the final environment, a closet, or dressing room. It’s all in 3D, and along with the final rendering, i made the final composition, editing a lot the original photos. Below you can see one of the original photos as well as some other tests for the environment.

Client: Sérgio Matos | Software used: 3dsmax, Photoshop

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Mr Hide

Madail — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:56:01 +0000

In the shade, we all go through changes… My wife Catarina was testing a new camera and took some photos while i was working. I then picked this one and played a bit with it in Photoshop, to get this undead look. I’ve finally added the effect of some venetian blinds to enhance the shady look.

Exif Information:

Date Taken: 2009:11:05 21:57:42
Equipment Make: Canon
Camera Model: Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Time: 1/30 sec
Fstop: f/5.6
Lens: 55 mm

Shiny Days

Madail — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:05:45 +0000

This photo of my wife Catarina express an happy feeling, associated with the return of sunny, shiny bright days. The color, tones and brightness in the face against the somewhat desaturated blue sky in the back creates the bridge between the cold and hotter days.

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Exif Information:

Date Taken: 2004:03:05 22:39:03
Width: 2272 pixels
Height: 1180 pixels
Equipment Make: Konica Minolta
Camera Model: DiMAGE Z3
ISO Speed: 50
Exposure Time: 1/500 sec
Fstop: f/3.2
Lens: 5.859375 mm

Catarina by the sea of Santa Cruz

Madail — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:05:44 +0000

We spent a very nice day in Santa Cruz, a small seaside village, near Óbidos. It’s a beautiful place. This panorama was taken with several photos that i merged together. The most difficult part is to be able to keep the details of moving objects, such as the waves, without the mixing being to noticeable. I like the duality on cool, non saturated look in the water against the two colored parts, the rock and my wife. The compostition really helps our eyes to get caught in the immense rock, and then drift away to check all little details, like the water splashes, the waves, etc.

Exif Information:

Equipment Make: Konica Minolta
Camera Model: Dimage Z3
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Time: 1/160 sec
Fstop: f/8
Lens: 24 mm

Catarina in Ponta dos Corvos

Madail — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:06:16 +0000

This time we went to a close city in the south of Lisbon, called Seixal. Amongst other interesting features, it has a very nice spot, in a extense and thin stretch of land, filled with marshes and water mills. It was there, in Ponta dos Corvos (Raven’s End sounds a nice translation), where in the low tide we can get by foot to some large sandbanks. This is part of a larger panorama, again with my favorite shooting subject, my wife.

Big, Happy Family!

Madail — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:26:09 +0000

Wow, this is some crazy mambojambo cloning madness!! No, we dont have multiple twins neither, eheh

What’s going on here is that i’ve used the same technique as i do with the panorama creation. I take multiple shots from the same location, but in each photo i move the tripod a bit to the side, set the timer, and go back to place and change position. Then its a hard task in Photoshop to make all the image seem seamless, with some harder tasks as masking some bodies in front or in the back of another set.

In the end, we get a nice panoramic view of a single scenario, with multiple people in it.

I can say that buying a tripod was a great investment, since from there i started making some panoramas, and opens new possibilities and techniques impossible before.

Exif Information:

Date Taken: 2009:09:24 03:18:59
Width: 1704 pixels
Height: 2272 pixels
Equipment Make: Konica Minolta
Camera Model: DiMAGE Z3
ISO Speed: 50
Exposure Time: 1/100 sec
Fstop: f/3.2
Lens: 8.32 mm

Água das Pedras 2009 Online Calendar

Madail — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:54:09 +0000

Project made for an online calendar campaign for ”Água das Pedras”, a world known natural carbonated mineral water. Sérgio Matos took all the photos that i used on each layer in Photoshop. Lots of painting, retouching and patience. Big thanks to Gonçalo Pereira for inspiration! Check out the Making of Video!

Official website – www.aguadaspedras2009.com

Client: Sérgio Matos | Software used: Photoshop

http://www.vimeo.com/4607999

By the water

Madail — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:03:50 +0000

This photo was taken in a small lake formed by a small waterfall. My wife Catarina was the photographer this time. I just took the liberty to make some color adjustments in photoshop afterwards.

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Exif Information:

Date Taken: 2005:08:25 12:09:36
Width: 1024 pixels
Height: 768 pixels
Equipment Make: Nikon
Camera Model: E3100
ISO Speed: 106
Exposure Time: 10/36 sec
Fstop: f/2.8
Lens: 5.8 mm