How I Photographed The "Politricks" Picture.

Politricks

"Politricks is the word "politics" altered to convey the empty-campaign promises often experienced after politicians get elected."

About a year ago I had this thought of making a picture from this word. I needed suitable location and model that looked like politician and had no problem to come and act one. Finding right location was quite challenging becouse many of the locations were actively used by political organizations and obviously the content of the image does not flatter this activity so I had to find a sufficiently neutral place for the photoshoot.

After I found model to act the politician and the location I started skecthing the photo in photoshop and build the props needed for the photo. Long noses were tricky one, at first I though I use somekind of latex noses that I could buy from costume stores but then I figured out that styrofoam could do the trick, its easy to shape and after coating it with waterbased paint I sprayed littlebit of lacquer to it to make it bubble and that way create the illusion of skin pores. The lectern was simple made from gluelam tabletop that I had and becouse I knew from which angle I was going to shoot the photo I needed to make it whole from one side only. Only props that I needed in addition to the previous ones was some blank paper and posters that I could finish in photoshop by adding the "campaign" photo to them.

Becouse of the time we had in the location both models were photographed separately. This way I didnt need so many lights and could work fast and efficiently. The lights I used in this photoshoot were two godox AD360s, a godox V1 and a nikon sb24. The politician was photographed with three lights with a rectangular softbox, one with a honeycomb straight from the top, one from the right and one light on the left side of the model. I wanted the cleaner to be a bit in the shadows so I used two soft boxes right behind and in front of her. After the models were photographed I took couple of shots from the scene with one flashlight in different places around the scene. Last thing of the photoshoot in the location was to take the "campaign" potret from the politician and its was a wrap. The whole photoshoot was done in 2 hours.

In the post I made the politician nose longer, removed lines from the floore, combined the shots in to one and added little details like saw dust on the politicans jacket, campaing posters to the walls and papers on the floor.

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