#71 Behind the scenes

Following the last blog, and the comments made regarding the question by Dakota about the flower images, we explained that the end result of a composite flower image is made with the help of a computer. Also thanks to Wendy who could have written the blog for us from her 3 books; we like that!

Usually, and depending of course what the image is going to be used for, there always needs to be a certain amount of retouching. This happened before computers, but involved a much more manual approach. The computer work still involves an enormous amount of skill, and there are people out there who specialize in doing it.

Anne uses a lady called Jo who lives in Auckland in New Zealand. She has been with Anne, as most of her team has, for many years and is very connected to what Anne requires. She travels to Sydney about once a month and spends an intensive few days at the computer working with some of the images that Anne has shot in the previous weeks, since her last visit. Jo is obviously very accomplished, and it’s amazing to watch her at work on the computer.

Anne, as you can see from the photo, is always with Jo during this time so that the end result is exactly what Anne had envisaged. The final image is always the result of the Anne’s creativity, with what she had in her mind, before even the photograph was taken.