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Ayrshire Baby Photographer | Star Wars | Behind the Scenes

15/2/2018

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So, my Star Wars image! Why and how did I do it, and what was the inspiration behind it?  
As you know, when my pre-booked new babies are born I send the parents a colour preference form so that I can style my sessions in advance and come up with something creative and unique for each of my clients.  When twins Liam and Emma arrived, the colour preference form asked me that, if possible, I could recreate a Star Wars image that babies dad liked.  I was happy to take on this challenge, but I was keen to do my own take on it and not reproduce another photographer's work.  I thought that it would be fun to do this using the Potato Sack pose and create little mini lightsabers in Photoshop. 

Confession time......I've never seen Star Wars so I had to Google the characters to see what they looked like and how they dressed.  I based Liam on Luke Skywaker, and Emma on Rey.  Rey had a grey crossover dress with brown belt....so I used a grey wrap and my daughter's belt and for Luke Skywalker I used a simple brown wrap and draped it over his head as a hood.

Now for the lightsabers......
Lynne Harper Star Wars Twin Image
I found the perfect tool for the job in Tesco.  A kids lightsaber toothbrush! It was light enough that the babies would be able to hold and gave me something tangible to work with in Photoshop.  I like to get my images as right as I possibly can straight out of camera and then just enhance it in Photoshop.  These were absolutely perfect!
Star Wars toothbrushes used by Lynne Harper for Lightsabers

Here are the Potato Sack images that we took on the day.  Both babies were photographed individually and were never together in the pose.  I put them together in Photoshop and just added a little shadow between them to make it more realistic.  Both babies easily held the toothbrush....they were little stars.  The main concern was that we didn't press the button on the toothbrush that blasted Star Wars music.....(don't worry, we didn't!).
Individual potato sack images by Lynne harper Photography
These are the individual images that I created from the shots above, that I used to composite together in Photoshop.
Star Wars potato sack behind the scenes
Now for the lightsabers.  Again, I had to Google this and learn how to do it.  Mastering a Lightsaber glow wasn't a skill that I had mastered up until now lol!  I basically just removed the red plastic toothbrush using the clone tool, painted a light coloured line out of the lightsaber base and then added a bright glow around it.
How lynne harper created the lightsabers
This screenshot below shows you roughly how I did this.
adding the glow to the lightsaber in photoshop
Final Star Wars composite image by lynne harper

​So there you have it, how I created my little Star Wars babies in a few simple steps.  I hope you enjoy seeing the behind the scenes blogs on how I am inspired to create my work!

Thanks for reading this far! If you would like to book a newborn session, you can do so at www.lynneharper.com

Lynne xx

P.S. I like to support my photographer friends.  Please pop over to NC Hopes Photography blog at www.nchopesphotography.com/blog/my-inspirationby-a-stockport-newborn-photographer.  Nikki is a newborn and family photographer is Stockport, Cheshire who's newborn work is really beautiful.
12 Comments
Jenna link
15/2/2018 08:44:28 pm

This is so cool. I love how personalised you made their session x

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Hannah link
15/2/2018 09:17:42 pm

I remember seeing this image in the past and fell in love with it. It’s still adorable seeing it for the second time. I love how you have created this! It’s wonderful to see how it was done. Thanks for sharing!

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Julie
15/2/2018 09:24:09 pm

I love this!! Thank you so much for sharing and the resulting image is absolutely fantastic!!

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Daniela
15/2/2018 10:06:22 pm

The force is really with you!! So cool.

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Dawn link
15/2/2018 10:09:54 pm

This is so cool Lynne x

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Amanda
15/2/2018 10:10:35 pm

That's so cool!! Love seeing how you created this image!!

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Nikki Hopes
15/2/2018 10:18:51 pm

Amazing idea and inspiration for us all Lynne!

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Jill
16/2/2018 05:15:08 am

I adore how creative you are and the extra extra mile you will go for your client. Amazing image

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KArin
16/2/2018 06:44:17 am

How cool, thank you for showing us your creativity

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Todd Ingalls
16/2/2018 08:07:07 am

It's great to see the force of Photoshop's capabilities being put to such creative use with newborn photography. Great work!

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Emily
16/2/2018 11:14:57 pm

This is so good Lynne! x

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Backpack Ben link
10/12/2020 09:03:12 am

This was lovely to reaad

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