How are the 3D spheres added for a photo like this?
Posted Mar 23, 2021, 8:57 PM UTC
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Most likely using 3D software like Cinema 4D or blender. This would be REALLY difficult in just photoshop but it could be done using the 3D tool on a sphere and replacing the texture on the sphere with a desert image or the same image that it’s used in
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Thanks for the reply. The model is not reflected in the orbs and they don’t have shadows below them so I think they have to be added in with a photo mapped over it or something similar to that.
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Oh yes certainly they were created in after production! If you look at the far left ‘orb’ going off the picture you can see the sphere is textured, lending me to think it’s definitely a 3D software
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as an extra option to the other 2. the model could be the only real thing in the photo.
Could be an entirely 3D background. Notice how the model doesn't reflect in the spheres.
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I thought I had it figured out until I saw the reflection. The rock looks different from any in the background. I think it has to be either what you suggested or the orbs were added with a 3D program. It honestly could be a little of both.
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This Saweetie shot is by Dennis Leupold for Cosmopolitan, and as u/redhighways said, I think it actually is mylar balloons - if you look closely at the edges, you'll see the seams, and they're also slightly irregular. But as it's been pointed out that she doesn't show up in any of the reflections, I guess they've just shot those balloons separately in the same set (there's plenty of different photos from this set, at least one of them has a random balloon/sphere in it), and they're then comped in afterwards.
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They kinda look like Mylar balloons to me guys.
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The easiest way, would be to shoot the model in front of a greenscreen, and using and using the same hdri in blender for the spheres and the background, if you go to Photoshop and fix the lightning up a bit, you should be able to get similar results.
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Restore the Snyder Verse 🤦🏻♂️
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Looks like they just found the sphere image. Cut it out and placed it in the image a few times.
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Take photo take, photo of reflection, use liquidify and maybe turn up brightness and add blur
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Shoot the model.
Turn around, shoot the sunscape.
Create spheres in Photoshop.
Apply sunscape as a wrapped texture to sphere.
Photoshop said spheres into final shot with model.
opinion: add pseudo shadows of the spheres falling where they would on the rocks, surfaces, as well to add realism.
This makes it sound so simple. I agree with the shadows for realism. I think that and the model not being reflected is what caught my eye at first. Thanks for the input.