Wallpaper – Lanzarote with Tom Brown
A fantastic collaboration as always with Thomas Brown on a wildly conceptual project for Wallpaper Magazine
The shots we made by compositing multiple plates of the landscape. In some cases the landscape was a single shot, in others alternative selects were made for skies, water or lighting on the landscape to get the best out of the image and composition.
The photographer shot plates blocking the sun on the environment so we could accurately build shadows for the LED screens. He also shot lighting plates to represent the light emitted from the LED screen on the landscapes. This was most important on the darker shots.
We were supplied the LED screen as a beauty pass by the CGI artist collaborating with Wallpaper. We placed them in the image, colour balanced, masked and built the shadows and added any extra light to the environment. We applied an LED screen texture to the screens that we built ourselves with high resolution images of a real LED screen. We blurred the CGI to match the softness and depth of field of the photography and finally added a colour grade to the image along with photographic grain. Total of 177 layers. 🙂
