How is this technique achieved

[Chris Babbitt]

Believe-it-or-not, there are people regularly charging upwards of $3000-$4000 for photo montages using this effect. Some folks wll pay anything for something really different.

[Lee Berger]

I have the Beta version of CS3. Can you give me a hint about which tools? Thanks.

[Chuck Reti]

Go to https://www.adobeevangelists.com//aftereffects/index.html
Click on “The 3D Picture Trick,” a tutorial PDF.

[Gary Alan]

The beta version has tutorials. I am on a Mac now and I did the CS3 stuff on a PC when it came out for public trial. It was in the area of using the Magic Wand for selection. Much better and easier than the older versions. Sorry I can’t be more specific. Just don’t have it running now in front of me. The tutorials had a picture of a cowboy demonstrating the new tool.

Gary

[Bob Carpenter]

Thanks for all the responses. I pretty much thought it would be an AE or Boris solution. Unfortunately I dont have enough experience with these two programs but I just may pick them up after the new apple mac pros are introduced. Something for me to learn in the coming year 🙂

[Lee Berger]

Thanks!

[Bret Williams]

Ayup. First, I think this is pretty much a demo for the wedding photographer. He probably had someone produce this to show off his photography in a little different light. Also, I would have to add that the “cutting out” is the simplest part. Cloning backgrounds (they’re not all grass and sky folks) would be the toughest part. Next would be the hassle of laying out the scenes in 3D space. You’ve got to get the depth right for it to look right. That means a bit of trial and error. But cutting people out is extremely simple. And it doesn’t really have to bee done all that accurately when it’s going to video with motion/motion blur in the animation. A good cut out and a little edge feathering does the trick.

[David Bogie]

see this:
https://www.adobeevangelists.com/

https://www.adobeevangelists.com/aftereffects/The3DPIctureTrick.pdf

The 3d Picture Effect by Daniel Brown, Adobe Systems

Wedding guys have made this into a science:
Shoot the bride in the lovely setting then get her out of the scene and shoot a clean plate.

As Poisson hinted, make it even easier! Shoot the bride on a green screen.

This technique is overused and becoming a clich

[Gunleik Groven]

Some of these backgrounds could easily be clean shots (without the foreground subjects) and some of the material (like the pillars) look a bit CG, but that is hard to tell @ this rez.

I’d have done it in Shake, but that’s just me. Dunno AE or combustion, so there you go.

Gunleik