witches photography, watermarks and levitations
today we're going to be discussing how this photo was made
how popular it got and the consequence of
going viral in the digital age, as a photographer
my original intention with this video was to make a simple tutorial on how to
actually accomplish this in post-processing but I slowly realized
that this was much more of an interesting story than just a simple
editing tutorial
the beginning started a lot earlier than I thought and after the
photo was featured, the ending it got a lot more complicated
so let's start at the very beginning
I only started shooting in 2013 and in my first year
just like all our first years
we're very creative we shoot everything until we
find out what we're good at but the only way to find out how is
through experience and lots of trial and error
I've always had a passion for witches and wizards
you know, being a magician, I had been familiar with a lot of the material in
old texts and images
I was really drawn to the classical interpretation of witches
you know before Hollywood took over and made them green and ugly
I wanted to recreate the original atmosphere from the old paintings
my true goal was to make this photo look like it was taken a hundred years ago
so within only a few months of starting photography I put out a casting call on
a site called model mayhem
I even mentioned flying naked witches to a few
the models on there so one by one all of the models flaked it required nudity and
no one else could see my vision so I just gave up on the idea
it was eerie
going through those old messages the vision was so clear it's almost as if my
current self went back in time to my old self and tried to describe the concept
of this photo to these other models but they had no idea what I was talking
about back then
fast forward a few years and I had built
up a decent reputation and portfolio
it wasn't until there was a shoot with
smoke grenades with Lady katastrophic, that the vision suddenly came back I've
always been obsessed with thick fog but it's impossible to predict natural fog
is quite elusive so it's hard to organize a shoot that requires it
not to mention finding five models willing to get naked in the woods
and get up at 5 in the morning
so after the initial richness of the purple fog the smoke started to dissipate
and then it became this hazy like atmosphere and I knew then
it was possible to create fog
I let her take care of the casting because previously I
had failed convincing five girls to get naked in the woods
I wonder why
the casting went great we attracted about a dozen models but my issue was a lot of
them were alternative models
the thing is modern witches tend to be more gothic
or alternative and that's fine for right now but back in the day you wouldn't see
any tattoos or piercings or colored hair
so as alluring as that "alt" look is that
it's it's just not what I wanted for this photo and the whole goal of this
photo was to make it look like it was taken a hundred years ago which would be
kind of impossible if everyone had tattoos
we had about six that fit the bill and when it came down to the day of the
shoot we were down to four Navi Kat Melissa and Jana and of course
we had our security which was a bodybuilder kori
I also had Photoshop on
my side so I knew I could clone anybody if I needed an extra body
now it came time to the actual photo shoot
the main focus of the shot was obviously the
floating witch in the middle or the floating virgin sacrifice in the middle
but first the problem with levitation photos
let me talk about this for a second
so how do we make sure that levitation doesn't look bad being a
magician certainly helped but there's a lot of levitation photos out there that
are just not not very good
the problem with a lot of levitation pictures out
there is that instead of a levitation picture it seems more like an invisible
chair picture all they do is they put their model on a chair or table and then
just remove it in Photoshop
it just looks bad it looks cheesy
and it just makes levitation photos in general and magic look bad and being a
magician it just irks me it's just it's just so easy to fix maybe we'll do a
separate video on how to do a levitation photo properly so there were only two
options to make sure she didn't look like she was just laying on an invisible
aquarium
option one was to dangle the model from a harness to make sure that
her body would fall into place
instead of just being flat like it was on a table
so option two would be to hold the model between her armpit and her knee to
make sure her butt is free of any constraints and it's not flat at the
bottom which is the problem with a lot of levitation photos out there since the
trees were too high to dangle rope from and that just the logistics of it were
too dangerous we went with option two
once we got the floating shot we were
ready for the other girls and the smoke grenades
I was going to combine many pictures into one picture kind of like a double
exposure except time 5
in this video I won't go into the specifics of exactly
how to play with layers to combine multiple images into one so go watch
that video after this video make sure you watch this one first though
I only had two smoke grenades left so I knew the window of opportunity
was very low
we only had 90 seconds
so I had to simultaneously move the grenades
around and with the other hand take pictures with a remote app on my phone
multitasking just a little
I directed the models to sit-stand go in a circle
I needed many options and during this whole time Cory and I were circling the
girls as I was also triggering the camera to snap the photos
I was lucky
enough that the photos were in focus
but the smoke did get overwhelming in the
end and a lot of the photos at the end didn't make it
few of them did
so I had enough to work with for what I had in mind
I chose my
best images that work together and using layers in Photoshop I combined them into
a final image
once again see the multiplicity video to get the exact
details of how this was done
now here is something you never would have guessed
the smoke was not white look how colorful they are a totally different
mood no
photo was released on October 31st 2016
now I submitted it to a dark Beauty magazine soon after that but it didn't
get featured until way later
I like dark Beauty magazine because previously one
of my photos had gotten 10,000 likes and 500 fans overnight so I thought if that
photo did so well this photo should do really well
it finally got featured on
July 2017 Facebook Instagram website and even tumblr
it received 6666 shares and
it was so popular that it even became their cover photo
keep in mind dark Beauty magazine has over 1 million Facebook fans we were all
thrilled with the amount of attention and exposure this photo was getting
but then came the darkness of the digital age
every few days one of my
followers would find the floating witches photo online somewhere on a
featured account or a blog or web site
now sometimes they kept all the credits
from the dark Beauty they just reblogged it which was fine although they didn't
keep the actual tagging feature and other times they remove the credits
entirely or even worse
put a cringy color filter on top
now the smaller accounts are harmless and are bound to happen
but then the bigger accounts
started featuring them netting
ten thousand twenty thousand likes and
credits were removed
some were nice and cooperative and fixed their errors while
others just played dumb and just ignored the problem altogether or even at worst
blocked me so I couldn't complain about it
the worst part about seeing your
photo with twenty thousand likes and credits removed is the genuine interest
in the comments
who is this photographer? where can I buy a print?
and then after
me commenting having the photo completely removed losing access to
twenty thousand potential fans so even if one out of 1,000 actually bought
something that's money out of my own pocket
shit its a deer
so many missed opportunities all the fame without any of the benefits
after commenting fruitlessly on their comment section
I realized a lot of these big
accounts don't have time to check the comments don't have time to see every
message that gets sent to them
because there's so much spam so I started doing
something a little bit different
at the time Instagram stories was a new thing
so I would put up a story and tag them and then say something like forgot to
add credits
a lot of times they would just reply and be like oops sorry I
didn't see that you weren't tagged here let me fix that and other times it got a
lot worse
in one of these cases my Instagram story direct message method
actually worked
one of these accounts took a screenshot of my story all my
story said was it's a good time to be an artist and she took a screenshot of this
and posted it to her 250,000 fans trying to call me out for standing up for
myself
so apparently in the comment section it went something like this
I found it
online so therefore it's in the public domain I am free to use it as I will
the commenters who were backing me up were sort of like
that's akin to saying that
people who got raped deserve to be because of the way they were dressed
just because you found something and you have access to it doesn't mean you're
entitled to it
and she was all like
it's all ....
(laughs) I can't do this
a few photographers in the industry had a lot of insightful things to say
and one photographer in
particular even bought a photo himself
after posting about it I ended up
getting 1,200 fans in one hour
reverse image set did not yield a photographer's
name so don't tell me to do that thanks mysterymanphoto
if you wanted to be credited why didn't you just put a watermark on it?
think of a time that you picked up a magazine National Geographic or or anything any
sort of publication that you remember seeing a giant watermark of the
photographer
that's right it doesn't happen because part of any publication
standard is that watermarks must be removed
this was very much the case in
this scenario as I submitted to dark beauty magazines and they asked for the
watermark to be removed
so once I brought up this issue to the would-be
offender here we just cleared it up we just realized it was a giant
misunderstanding on her part and
she apologized and we were friends right
after that
until she blocked me five minutes later
the gist of it was
to many living in the digital age they don't know the difference between what's
in the public domain and searchable by Google
they assume that because an image
is so easily searchable it's theirs
because they did the digging so now we
have all these feature accounts out there they're kind of like a mixtape a
collection of the best of a niche they're great for bringing exposure to
small artists if used properly
but luckily not everyone is a dick who's out
to get you there are honest misunderstandings sometimes and
sometimes all you need is just a conversation
artists and feature account
should be a perfect match
they bring the original content and they bring the
audience
it's a mutual beneficial relationship
so is our online photo safe
out there in a world of accessibility and entitlement?
is a watermark even good enough?
how would you handled the situation?
do you watermark every single thing you do?
is there even a point?
leave a comment below and share your
watermarking stories
if you want to see more behind the scenes and the stories
behind certain photographs
comment below on which ones you'd like to see we'll do
more behind the photo stories like this if you guys like that kind of stuff
if you'd like to purchase your own copy of The Witches photo there will be a
link below as well as any other photo that might strike your fancy so don't
forget to subscribe like and share with your photographer friends
thanks mystery man photo
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