I found these oil slicks on a wet sidewalk at the entrance to a parking garage and photographed them with the Sony RX100.  Setting the camera to square format, I took three photos with the intention of creating a triptych of prints later.

I liked the way the colors flowed from one to the other with a sidewalk break centered in the middle image.

This larger version of the center image of the triptych gives a clearer idea of the sidewalk detail.  The color was enhanced later in Photoshop by moving the images into the LAB color profile and working with them there.  Once the color work was completed, the images were finalized by converting them back to the Adobe RBG color profile. LAB is a much more extensive color profile allowing far greater range in the color palette.

Another composite image.  This time of a healthcare professional with a hospital environment.

We had a model in the studio today and photographed her as a dental hygienist seen from the perspective of the patient.  Later this image was composited with the photo from the blog post of a few days ago.  Because I shot each image specifically to be composited I was able to prepare them in a way that made the job of putting them together easier.  The hygienist, for instance, was photographed back lit by a studio tungsten lamp placed behind her to simulate the same type of lighting from the dental light. Also I photographed her from the same position I was in when I took the background shot, and used a similar lens focal length and depth of field.  As a result of this preparation, the two images blended together naturally, and the whole composite took only 20 minutes to complete.

Spent the day compositing images.  Here is one of them.

Composite images

For several months we have been gathering individual photos of models to combine into group images.  Here is one example of people waiting in line. It is made up of ten separate images including the people, stanchions, and background, plus a few other layers to create shadow effects.

Nothing like a trip to the dentist to inspire a stock shot.  I grabbed this patient's eye view while sitting in the chair in my dentist's office -- all because I had the Sony RX100 in my pocket at the time. This photo will also make a nice background for other combining ideas I have in mind.

Lightbox Abstracts

This set of macro images of see-though objects was created on a small light box. All were taken with the Fuji X-Pro1 and Leica R 60mm macro lens. One of the nice things about the new mirrorless cameras is that there are plenty of adapters to attach other SLR lenses to them. There was a very subtle color palette in each scene. To retain the coloring, even in the highlights, I did not allow the background light to over-expose into pure white.

Plastic ink pens

AG-1 flash bulbs

Perfume bottle

Inside of a spray cleaner bottle