processing

Shooting a champagne commercial near the Milford Sound in New Zealand’s South Island, Mat Baker and his brother and digital collaborator, Carl, had a day off. They asked a boat captain to take them to a great spot to shoot the iconic Mitre peak, but soon realized he had dropped them at the wrong place. After a hike through freezing-cold, waist-deep water with only headlamps for light, they found the location and spent the next 6 hours with shoes full of water and nothing to eat but a “little bag of nuts.” Still, they knew it would be worth it for the picture.

One morning, Romain Laurent woke up with vertigo. Instead of calling the doctor, he thought, Hey, this is fun! And in that moment the idea for his “Tilt” series came to him. He saw the image in his mind’s eye almost exactly as it appears in his actual photographs.

To get rid of distracting leaves and stems in her floral photo, Sherry Christensen of Irma, Alberta, Canada, used the time-honored method of cropping them out. While a wise decision, we think this leaves too little “headroom” around the blossom.Working with her uncropped version, we removed unwanted detail in Adobe Photoshop CS5 using Content Aware Fill instead.