So for a while now I've been wanting to shoot a shot of my parrot as if she was the star monster in an action/horror movie. So the other day when I was walking around Glasgow, I was glad to see some construction/deconstruction work going on.
Not knowing exactly what would work (but had an idea) I went about capturing the scene from different angles and I also used a telephoto to capture the panoramic scenes so I would have lots of room for cropping and fine details.
When I got home, I picked which scene to render then went about setting my small loft studio up for my parrot.
lighting
The scene was overcast with hardly no shadows and lots of soft light so to emulate that I put two soft box's up close either side and to the front of my parrot so she got some nice soft feathed light from both angles.
pet trickery
Because Yoshi's a pet and not a model I knew I getting the right pose from her would be tricky, So I used my tripod with one of the handles in a vertical position and placed her on top. Knowing that parrots are inquisitive by nature I knew she would start to climb down and look about. (she also chomped some of my rubber grip grrr lol )
post
I joined both photos together, moving Yoshi about and resizing her till she matched what I wanted. I then used a mask to fit her into the image.
Next I did some color correction (to look more like a movie), a texture overlay and a bunch of other stuff.. just to make it look how I wanted.
Anyway here's the shot
Originally posted by Ash 
