Levitation

Jonathan Sitting Like A Levitating Monk

For our first photo we decided to take a shot of Jonathan levitating.

We first wanted to find the right background for our shot that woud give the illusion of their being nothing under him.

We used a stool, Canon T7 and 18-20MM Lens.

We made him sit like a levitating monk.

We chose this background because there's a gap between two bushes appearing see through.

We initially shot with the bush in the background, and it disturbed the illusion.

On Photoshop we added blur for the background to pop. We also raised the resolution to make him stand out the most.

We don't think that the photo worked as we initially thought.

The bush as seen on the left messed up him levitating, it is as if he is sitting on the bush.

We could try another background the next time we shoot a photo similar to this.

Thats really the only thing we'd do differently next time we shoot this type of photo.

Jonathan Levitating For A Flower

For our second photo we came up with the idea to have Jonathan lay flat and pick out a flower.

For our equipment we used our Canon T7, 18mm Lens, A Stool, and a Specific Pose.

We wanted our illusion to look like he was floating and picking a flower form a near flower bed.

We chose this background because we thought his clothes would contrast which did end up working.

Once we threw it into lightroom we added background blur to make him pop, added a shadow which came out successful to our illusion, and higher the resolution to make him stand out the most.

One think that I could think of to fix this photo in specific would be raising his back to legs up or create more space.

I think that would be beneficial and a good note taken for future possible shoots similar to this.

We believe that the photo worked, but only because of the shadow under him.