For the second shoot I decided to explore some outdoor locations. I wanted to increase the magical effect of my pictures giving a more romantic and peaceful feeling. We shot in a football field which gave us multiple opportunities like shooting between trees or on a beautiful grass. Like in the first shoot I used a tripod and a couple of stools to lift my models. This is the contact sheet of the first part of the shoot:
Then I edited the best picture using the same technique used last week, but I think that the clothes don't behave naturally. Probably my models should wear different type of clothes that could hide the zone where they touch the stool.
We also shot some pictures with the models standing, the problem in this case was that the floating effect wasn’t perceptible how it should. The main problem was that the background texture was pretty distracting and that the point of view should have been lower. Some more bokeh could have helped to separate the models from the background.
We tried the same pose with another background which unfortunately had the same problems as the first one.
Finally taking the last shot we found out how to enhance the levitating effect. The model sat on the stool on her back facing up and in this case both the cloths and the separation from the floor worked pretty well.
As I wanted to increase the effect even more I “lifted” the model from the ground using Photoshop and I color graded the picture using Lightroom.
I’m really happy with the result and I think that this technique is really great to represent the relationship I’m working on. Next time I’ll try something slightly different to see if there could be other ways to capture people floating.