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Some folks have asked me how I got into Composite Digital Art so I thought I’d tell you. I started out as a photographer. I was a photographer in high school but kinda gave it up when I graduated. I picked it back up again in the early 2000s and was getting pretty good at it. I loved shooting and working in Lightroom doing post-processing work. I knew about photoshop and had dabbled but for what I was working on, Lightroom was usually all I needed. Then, in the mid 2010s I stumbled onto this video<\/a> by Julieanne Kost<\/a> and it just rocked my world. I have no idea HOW I found it because compositing was not anything I was into. I had seen the “Photoshop Guys” (Scott Kelby, Matt Kloskowski, RC Concepcion, Dave Cross, Pete Collins, and of course Cory Barker. I was amazed at what they did but so much of it was either photo-retouching or recreating movie posters. It was all great fun but wasn’t anything I wanted to create. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I saw the artistic approach of Julieanne. Not only was it artistic but it was abstract! I love abstract art and seeing what she was doing just blew my mind. I searched her sight for more but there wasn’t too much. I started to dive into photoshop to figure out how she did it but other than the little bit she talked about in the video, I was lost. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A couple of years later I stumbled on this guy Sebastion Michaels<\/a>. He was doing similar stuff and actually had started a course to show you how to do compositing in photoshop. I immediately signed up and I was off. It has now gotten to the point that the only reason I pull out a camera is to take pictures that I am wanting to use for compositing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Sebastian, I found a whole community of people doing the same stuff that I was doing, only they were doing it MUCH better! (And still do!). But I had found my tribe. I spent quite a bit of time working on composites and really enjoyed it. Then life, as it does took over and I was low on time to put into composites. By the time life calmed down enough to work, I had forgotten so much and would get so frustrated that I just wouldn’t finish anything. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eventually, I came across Brooke Shaden<\/a>. Brooke is a solo photo composite artist with a whole different vibe. She shoots all the photos used in her art and is 95% of the time her own model. She uses a remote shutter release so no one even has to be in the room and her work is dark and brilliant! (Seriously, watch some of her youtube videos<\/a> where she takes you through the whole process.) She gave me the guts to dive back in, relearn what I had forgotten, and continue down my artistic trail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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