Hey Everyone
Wednesday I was finally able to shoot a creative idea I had for going on 2 years now. I talked one of my friends (Andrew "Timmie" Timlick") into being the Good and Bad Cop for the shoot and as you can see he fit the bill perfectly.
The idea was simple split personality/angel and demon, make it a little more surreal with the same guy as both characters. The Bad Cop would destroy the things that the Good Cop would offer, basically doing the complete opposite of the Good Cop. Wardrobe was all Andrews, but the props were a collection over time planning for this....
Props List:
Air Pistol ($100 Canadian Tire)
Shoulder Gun Holster ($40 Wholesale sports....now for sale for $40...lol)
Old Telephone ($5 from an "odds and sods" store in Toronto)
Desk (from home garage)
Plain White Donut Boxes (free...corner store bakery)
Cop Badge ($11...costume store)
Mugs (2 from the kitchen)
Cigarettes (2 packs...$19...am I ever glad I don't smoke)
Donuts (2 dozen from Tims...$10)
Coffee (2 large from Tims...$6)
Chair (from the garage)
Fake Files (From home)
Pantyhose (The Bay $10)
Hammer (From Home)
Now the set up was simple and done in my basement as you can see from the video:
Now the shoot was pretty fun, at one point when Andrew was stuffing his face with Donuts we were both laughing hard and then again when he was smashing the telephone. Here is a fun clip I put together, when I was sorting the images they kind of looked like a stop motion video when I scrolled quickly.
Now like I said there was plenty of planning, I also prepared the lighting ahead of time by sketching it out.
So I shot everything on a white backdrop to keep a minimal amount of colour bleeding into Andrews clothing and skin tone. I replaced it with a iStock image of a concrete wall ($22), which I did a lot of texturing, dodging and burning, resized, and painted in light sources to look as natural as I could make it. Each image took about 5 hours each to edit (colour correction, masking, dodging and burning, sharpening, compositing, etc) the Photoshop files (.psd's) were around 600 megabytes each, final .jpg's are 11.5 megabytes each...which my computer really didn't appreciate...So finally after all that here are the final images, that is if I don't see anything I want to change.
Oh and the Bad Guy is me...lol
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