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Posted by Aurélien Pierre on 2023-04-24.
Here is a before (scene-referred defaults, global exposure fix and crop to DIN format) and after of a shot made for a circus & comedy company. It was shot last february in the afternoon, with additional strobes. All the text has been added in several instances of the watermark module, the “Maxillaire & Guibole” vector drawing was made in Inkscape (pain in the ass), the company logo was imported from Adobe InDesign as PNG.
The show is about telephone technicians moonlighting as (anti-)super-heros.
Translated from English by : ChatGPT, Claude. In case of conflict, inconsistency or error, the English version shall prevail.