Elfie's Closet photo album 2.0

gunsmithcat · Post by **gunsmithcat** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 7:58 pm

So I've been in kind of hiatus from pictures from a while.... with all this Covid crap, and all the stuff going on around this place, I have not being particularly in the mood for it.... but my wife got me a green/blue screen, so I can actually edit any kind of background which,its pretty neat.... I have 0 experience doing this, or any editing at all, so any recommendations, feedback, advice its pretty welcome.

I'll be using this post for edited pictures, and the regular closet for any non edited pictures or just regular pictures.

So I've started to use gimp for this, and watching some videos online on how to proceed... so I have barely started, I know there is gonna be a lot of errors in the pictures, don't be afraid to point things out or give any feedback/recommendations that will help me improve.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoy!

mosterleon · Post by **mosterleon** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:10 pm

Photo compositing is its own art. Keep practicing and you will get ever better. The key to reducing post processing on green screen is even soft lighting, usually from two softboxes at 45-degree angle. Search YouTube for “chromakey” and you will find a wealth of techniques.

She is beautiful. I may have to get an elf some day.

JohnQPrivate · Post by **JohnQPrivate** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:00 pm

What is Elfie? She looks like something straight out of an MMO.

gunsmithcat · Post by **gunsmithcat** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:17 pm

mosterleon wrote:Photo compositing is its own art. Keep practicing and you will get ever better. The key to reducing post processing on green screen is even soft lighting, usually from two softboxes at 45-degree angle. Search YouTube for “chromakey” and you will find a wealth of techniques.

She is beautiful. I may have to get an elf some day.

Thanks for the advice I'll check it out... about the softboxes I think the biggest problem I have is that I have to take pictures at night, I never have much of a chance to take day pictures... so I have to use strong lights to get something semi decent....

gunsmithcat · Post by **gunsmithcat** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:22 pm

JohnQPrivate wrote:What is Elfie? She looks like something straight out of an MMO.

She is my ex145.... I call her Elfie cuz I have never being good at naming things... I'm a gamer and anime fan even when this outfit is more on the steampunk side...

Grimmiekins · Post by **Grimmiekins** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:38 pm

My dream doll is a EX145 Nina elf
glad to see that you are still posting pictures of her

Willendorph · Post by **Willendorph** » Wed Oct 14, 2020 3:38 pm

Hey, reading the intro was misleading -- you played it down, so I was expecting really crappy results! These are all good pictures!

I like the second one with the purple backing and the one with the steam punk looking wand best of all. I really can't advise you on composting images as I'm pretty terrible at it. The thing that did help me on the few I did was adding a filter to photos to tonally tie in the disparate elements in a picture. It's probably bad technique though as I'm not good at it!

Just for fun, I put Elfie's photo through Photoshop Express (free phone app), and tried a few filters. I quite like this one (charm 4?) - in before and after vision :haha4:

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It's not perfect, but photo filters are great fun to play with. Faceapp has on overlay section on it with a lot of stuff like lights. It's well worth having a play with pictures to see what you can do by pushing a few buttons! Hobbies/projects are definitely good to have with Covid looming all the time. Maybe once you get in some practice, Elfie could star in a short comic? It's a good way to structure your shoots and would keep you busy.

Those clockwork wings are pretty badass too!

gunsmithcat · Post by **gunsmithcat** » Wed Oct 14, 2020 6:23 pm

Willendorph wrote:Hey, reading the intro was misleading -- you played it down, so I was expecting really crappy results! These are all good pictures!

I like the second one with the purple backing and the one with the steam punk looking wand best of all. I really can't advise you on composting images as I'm pretty terrible at it. The thing that did help me on the few I did was adding a filter to photos to tonally tie in the disparate elements in a picture. It's probably bad technique though as I'm not good at it!

Just for fun, I put Elfie's photo through Photoshop Express (free phone app), and tried a few filters. I quite like this one (charm 4?) - in before and after vision

PSX_20201014_205116.jpg
It's not perfect, but photo filters are great fun to play with. Faceapp has on overlay section on it with a lot of stuff like lights. It's well worth having a play with pictures to see what you can do by pushing a few buttons! Hobbies/projects are definitely good to have with Covid looming all the time. Maybe once you get in some practice, Elfie could star in a short comic? It's a good way to structure your shoots and would keep you busy.

Those clockwork wings are pretty badass too!

Some phone apps have some really good stuff out there... I'm not very good at those but I have seen some pretty impressive stuff. I did try a couple with the green screen but the quality of the pictures was so bad...(because you gotta pay 100$ for the good stuff) that I decided to go old school at it with my regular camera...

The comic idea is not bad at all, it would be an interesting project as long as I don't decide to procrastinate, and leave it half way done... lol

Post by **AtomicPunk** » Wed Oct 14, 2020 7:11 pm

Fun photos, I like them alot ! Great to see creative photos on TDF.

gunsmithcat · Post by **gunsmithcat** » Thu Oct 15, 2020 2:27 pm

Grimmiekins wrote:My dream doll is a EX145 Nina elf
glad to see that you are still posting pictures of her

I did a ton of research like really a lot before I even consider getting a doll... I'm extremely picky with my girls so it was hard to find some that will meet my requirements to be really honest I think there is a ton of really ugly dolls out there, but I had 3 that I really liked on my top list ... and obviously she won... even up to day I think she is one of the prettiest dolls out there....

gunsmithcat · Post by **gunsmithcat** » Thu Oct 15, 2020 2:29 pm

AtomicPunk wrote:Fun photos, I like them alot ! Great to see creative photos on TDF.

Thanks! its fun!!

Chou524597 · Post by **Chou524597** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 7:50 pm

she looks amazing. who did you go through to get this doll?

gunsmithcat · Post by **gunsmithcat** » Thu Oct 22, 2020 8:53 am

Chou524597 wrote:she looks amazing. who did you go through to get this doll?

You can contact dsdoll directly... they won’t have the head in the options, but you can ask for the Nina elf head directly to John...they can get an order for you.