Concept Shots
Concept shots can be a great success, provided the concept is good
and the execution perfect. Get creative. It is one way to stand out from
the crowd.
The image “Let me out!” (Figure 3.25) was taken to illustrate how
we can all become trapped by technology, taken over by machines. It
has a twin, a conventional image of a widescreen laptop, but I found
this more fun. It is a composite of two images; one, a widescreen
laptop isolated on a white background, and the other, your venerable
author squashing his face against a window. I set the camera on a
tripod and used the built-in timer. It was quite easy—a (careful) cut-
and-paste job in Adobe Photoshop.
Check out the cover shot image of the happy guy (Charles Gervais,
a good friend of mine and a great pro photographer) with the cameras
FIGURE 3.25 “Let Me Out!” © Douglas
Freer/iStockphoto
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