How to accomplish this effect

pretty much how it's done is with a fan. or, if outside, wind. definitely use a sheer fabric as it will be the easiest to get a flowing shape with. if you're very careful, you can possibly use one or two fans aimed just right so that they aren't blowing too hard directly on your boys and messing up wigs and such.

you could also do some creative draping and posing and then just pin the fabric carefully to the back of the one it's supposed to wrap around and so on across the backs of the others since you can't see it as much as the piece in the front.

 

Just a suggestion... the fabric in the picture is wrapped around them, so maybe it would be easier to get that effect like that instead of having it come out to both sides... then use a fan to make the one side like it is in the picture

 

MIROTIC! I'll see if I can try this out and post here.

 

just a suggestion, but it looks to me like there is some clever photography there, it looks like some of the fabric may be superimposed. for one thing the guys sure have fabric wrapped around them and then it looks like the other blowing fabric is superimposed over the top. The guys (cute as they are ^_^) dont look very windswept as their hair is done with gel/mousse.

just a suggestion that might help you towards the look you want.

 

haha that might be the case!!

there hair doesn't even look like a hair has moved, but then again they might edit out stray hairs... hmm.. I'm try the tape thing though with the fan on probably a low setting

 

There are a few tricks for that shot.

Here is what I did for a similiar shot.

1. Fan.
2. Doll on a stand.
3. Slow shutter speed (left it open for several seconds) for movement capture of the fabric (this is all a matter of how much you want the blurr and effect to be... you have to experiment).
4. Strong back lighting to separate the doll and the fabric from the background.


This is the effect I did.





I've done this a few times and this was my favorite shoot with a puppet, a very light scarf, and I did wiggle the fabric even more for an even more blurred effect.

The blue in the background is fabrice. The red is a puppet, and the fish in her hand you can see is moving.

It's all the same concept.

Just experiment. You'll get it.

Good luck.

 

There could be a ton of hair product in their hair to get that effect. There is some movement if you look very close at the hair.

But whether or not it is photoshopped or not, you can do this effect with fans and draping, pulling of fabric.

 

Mirotic is my Fall romance. Love DBSK anyway, but once I got past their awful haircuts this time around, I've been obsessively driving the song into the ground on iTunes.

ANYWAY.

As for the shoot. Much thinner, longer material, and a fan. Fan = need a stand or something to hold up your doll, however.

 

How about, if you lie the dolls/doll down on a glass table and just arrange the fabric how you want it. I did this sort of thing here, ( it sort of looks like her hair is blowing but in fact she is lying down):

 

damn DBSK are hot lol, anyway i i agree that a fan and longer thiner clothe would work alot better.

if you can you might also want to photoshop it to get the effects just right :3

 

haha, if you notice, the picture is not all of the boys together, but each boy superimposed over the next. like you can see a chest through a shoulder, & such. i was just amused by that.

anyway, i've done this before, but with people, not a doll, so i don't have an example anywhere. but the trick is to get very light, very sheer silk scarves. the kind you can throw in the air, & it takes forever for it to float down. so it will require a fan, but it doesn't have to be on super high. drape the scarf over one shoulder so you'll get half of it behind & half of it in front. fishing lines will just give a fake sort of drapery appearance, so try it without that first. use the doll's arm & hand to guide the scarf in the direction you want it to float, & mess around with it yourself right before you take the picture. fluff it a little higher than you want for the picture, then you can snap as it floats back down.

i really hope all that makes sense, i'm lacking in coherency today. x3

 

I would second what most people have already pointed out: very lightweight fabric, fasten it to the back of the doll, use a fan, don't place the doll against a background but use a strong backlight. I love the original photo, must give this a try myself!

 

this might sound dumb, but how about you have you doll lying down on something that is hidden and drape the fabric over him, turn the camera on its side and shoot.
hmmm. how to describe better...
lay doll on a "table" so that there is air under neath, dollfaces you on his side. hope this makes more sense.

 

Well, for one thing i have found useful to gain "moving pictures" is that i have used timer and that setting that takes multiple pictures. Then you could attach the fabric on the edge closer to you, or hold it in your hands and use a fan, or blow to it while the camera takes pictures. Just like in the following picture, the doll stands still, but the hair is moving. It takes many times to try and get the picture desired, but it's worth the effort.
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1/ lighting from the behind needs to be lighter than the front.
2/ you need the wind effect. I suggest you use a dryer or a fan.
3/ try to attached one side of the fabric to your doll's hand and stay away from the wall behind
4/ try to make the camera eye lever parallel with your doll. Try to put your camera parallel with your doll's chest.

Hope this helps.

 

I know that this area is about photography, but I was looking through the gallery before and I found that you can get some pretty cool techniques if you put the doll onto a scanner bed. You can pose the fabric however you want it and it puts a lot of light through it. I recommend using some scissors to distress the fabric as well, though.

 

Totally agree- It's not that hard to go find a photo shop brush and then clone the fabric's texture on it. What this photo looks like to me is:
1. they wrapped the boys in a really long piece of fabric leaving the ends open.
2. then they turned on the fan so the ends moved- and then added movement with digital enhancement of some kind (I have no idea what kind of editing program the photographer used).
3. then did a full grainy pattern over the whole thing so the digital fabric looks more like the one wrapped around the bunch.

You can always use fishing line to help keep your doll(s) stable.

 

Hoo nice I'll try that just now...I am interior designer...so i like to test new effects on my presentations!!!!!!!!!

 

The fabric is not superimposed from what I see. Those models do have this fabric on them and blowing to the right with a fan on their left side. The models are superimposed together though from different shoots. You want a fabric that is completely see through when laid flat and becomes more opaque as you overlap it. Some sheer chiffon http://www.housefabric.com/ProductDetail.asp?ProductID=15792 could do the trick. You will also want it very bright and white behind your subject and good light on the subject as well with at least an 8 inch distance in between the subject and the background. You want the camera to be able to use a fast shutter speed with a 400 ISO to not blur the fabrics movement and have it be very crisp.

 

wow...what a creative idea!

In my opinion,the power of fan must be strong,you can fix you boy before you press down the botton.

 

I don't know much about this, but while scrounging around Deviantart, I found this:

http://skeleton-heart.deviantart.com/art/Tossing-Tutorial-89838773

It looks pretty similar, so I hope this is what you were looking for! -^0^-

 

The fabric actually isn't fake xD Uhm and they're not models. They're famous international singers.

The photo looks entirely more fake due to the colour, the actual photo is coloured, someone went into a program and put a sepia filter on it. ^___^;


For a doll this can be achieved with patience, tulle with rough cut ends and a box fan.

 

A fan and sepia tinting as opposed to black and white.

 

So how is the picture comming? Did any of the suggestions give you the effect you were looking for? I'm just being curious.