The Marriage of Blender and Photography

Chris Mitchell writes:

I have put together a couple of tutorials explaining the benefits of using CGI sets produced in Blender with real world models.

The first video explains the benefits of Blender for the photographer as well as some useful sites, plugins and tips for the new Blender user.

Blender For Photographers - Expanding Your Creative Opportunities

In the second video I go over my creative process from start to finish. I go over things such as:

• Getting ideas and inspiration
• Gathering reference material
• Getting the measurements that will make life easier when it comes time to putting a real person into the scene
• Where to get models from
• A few things to do on the photoshoot to make things easier later in the composite stage
• Preparing your images for Blender
• Bringing the image into Blender
• Fishing off the final rendered image in your image editor.

Blender for Photographers - The Creative Process