deviantART: by:rabatz http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:rabatz&section=today deviantART RSS for by:rabatz en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:07:58 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png Never be mine... http://rabatz.deviantart.com/journal/16477792/ http://rabatz.deviantart.com/journal/16477792/ Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:32:37 PST

Behind the picture


I watched PhotoShop User TV today and the "300" lightroom preset looked really cool. I played around with some old photos and had to realize that the preset only works with very few pictures. The very happy with here but it might look odd on some (uncalibrated) monitors.

For the background I used the great Grunge brushes made by =Metal-CX, the feathers came from ~Falln-Brushes. The model is my sweet muse ~FrauSchmidt. The base picture is not new. When we did the session for "Still too hot" we made quite a few shot too make sure we got the right angle, so this is basically recycling of the leftovers ;-)



]]> ~rabatz The long pause... http://rabatz.deviantart.com/journal/16280048/ http://rabatz.deviantart.com/journal/16280048/ Sun, 06 Jan 2008 02:41:32 PST
]]> ~rabatz Yikes! My first DD! http://rabatz.deviantart.com/journal/12357370/ http://rabatz.deviantart.com/journal/12357370/ Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:23:02 PDT
So this is the first time I'm featured for a Daily Deviation. It is super exciting since I only came to Deviant Art a few weeks ago. But what's the best about this DD is the picture that was chosen.

With a few exceptions my photos are barely more than snapshots. Usually I only have a general idea about what I want to do and how to set the lights but the actual picture is worked out with the model during the shoot. That got me some very beautiful pictures but I wanted to have more of a story behind the photos.

Behind the picture


What's different with Still too hot is that this is the first photo idea that I really planned from the very beginning. And it turned out just as we had it in mind :)

~FrauSchmidt and I sat down and she came up with this idea of a giant woman and a burning house. The next week we bought a model railway house and a background cloth (which was not used in the end) and then set up the photo. The actual shooting was one of the shortest sessions I ever had. We only took a couple of pictures and then it was perfect - setting up the lights took much longer. The model house was a little too big for our idea so I shot it seperately under the same lighting conditions.

Originally I did not want to use stock. Never had used stock before and I was somehow cautious because I don't want to violate copyrights. I have no problem giving people credit for their work but some usage rules are quite restrictive. Photographing the flames did not work - a candle is much too small and I did not want to risk burning down my house for a photo of a bigger flame. I tried to paint them but that just looked ridiculous :blush:. So I looked through DA and found the great flames by ~tirasco-madawa that had very acceptable usage rights :D. The original background cloth was not ideal so I used the texture from ~Enchantedgal-Stock. In total I worked about five hours on this picture until the lighting and colors were as I had them in mind.

I have to say I'm really happy with the result. A big thanks to the many people sharing their stock on DA! I'm sure I will use more in the future :)

]]> ~rabatz Shameless cross-promotion! http://rabatz.deviantart.com/journal/12074912/ http://rabatz.deviantart.com/journal/12074912/ Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:00:12 PST FrauSchmidt is my favourite model. Working with her is just great - she has humour, is professional and is able to hold weird, painful poses for as long as the bloody photographer takes. And even though she's a beautiful lady she can make really stupid faces - and allows me to post them :D

Now she has an account on DA but as usual there is not much traffic there. So if you like her pictures, give her a visit and say hello to her.



And some more pictures of her in my account:


]]> ~rabatz Bzzzzz! http://rabatz.deviantart.com/journal/12067075/ http://rabatz.deviantart.com/journal/12067075/ Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:27:26 PST FrauSchmidt today and discussed the next photo shootings. Wow, she was buzzing with ideas - this is going to be great! Now we just need to find the time for that....

]]> ~rabatz Wowowow! http://rabatz.deviantart.com/journal/11987229/ http://rabatz.deviantart.com/journal/11987229/ Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:44:04 PST

And I've been featured! Check out those fine journals:



And if that was not enough, my gallery is also featured by *deviant-ARCADE




I'm really proud about this, because from my very first days on DA these journals have been such a good source to discover great art. And now to see my work featured in there - fantastic!

]]> ~rabatz Way too late http://rabatz.deviantart.com/journal/11963792/ http://rabatz.deviantart.com/journal/11963792/ Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:09:20 PST
]]> ~rabatz 1k! http://rabatz.deviantart.com/journal/11921704/ http://rabatz.deviantart.com/journal/11921704/ Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:22:25 PST


And published my next photo. So isn't that cool!

]]> ~rabatz Editor's pick! http://rabatz.deviantart.com/journal/11892203/ http://rabatz.deviantart.com/journal/11892203/ Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:54:52 PST

And my pic "Boots" is now displayed by the

]]> ~rabatz Sun-day! http://rabatz.deviantart.com/journal/11862652/ http://rabatz.deviantart.com/journal/11862652/ Sun, 18 Feb 2007 02:11:28 PST
BTW, replied - seems that there is a huge backlog of new submissions. Let's see where this leads to...

]]> ~rabatz Nobody reads my mail... http://rabatz.deviantart.com/journal/11816384/ http://rabatz.deviantart.com/journal/11816384/ Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:26:47 PST ? I really like the club - great people there - but my mails get not read? Submitted three pics and just realized that they were not opened. What did I do wrong? Is this a conspiracy? Questions over questions...

]]> ~rabatz Learning how to play the game... http://rabatz.deviantart.com/journal/11798023/ http://rabatz.deviantart.com/journal/11798023/ Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:50:54 PST
As usual it depends on many factors. In that respect DA is not different from other side. If you're new and don't have a fan club, your work gets covered by the tide of new uploads. So I'm still holding back the really good stuff and try to build up some reputation - we'll see...

]]> ~rabatz Devious Journal Entry http://rabatz.deviantart.com/journal/11733758/ http://rabatz.deviantart.com/journal/11733758/ Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:58:57 PST

]]> ~rabatz No sand in my hand... http://rabatz.deviantart.com/journal/11710367/ http://rabatz.deviantart.com/journal/11710367/ Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:25:46 PST When I'm with you
There's no reason
There's no sense
I'm not supposed to feel
I forget who I am...

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