Faces
Diptych, self-portrait with Devo. © Jay Watson Photography
This week marked the final deadline to submit images to PDN’s Faces. Above are the images I entered after finally getting around to building the master files from a series of self portraits I shot for my site last summer. They were submitted individually but seem to work well as a diptych. Recently I figured out a cool way to build custom diptychs in Adobe Lightroom. It is just a simple trick that involves creating a custom document size in LR’s Print module. This makes experimenting with image parings more intuitive, and eliminates the need to use PhotoShop for such a simple task. Should I demo this in a tutorial? Let me know and I’ll consider sharing the how-to in a future post.
Note: I made dozens of calls to lumber yards searching for a few sheets of wood paneling last summer. They just don’t supply this good stuff anymore. Eventually I scored at a salvage yard that resells material from tear downs and demolitions. Oh yeah, Devo likes carrots and bully sticks.
Tags: Adobe Lightroom, diptych, self portrait, Whippet
April 8th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Wow! Excellent. The lighting captured me. Great stuff.
April 8th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Those are my boys!! (-:
April 8th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
That is absolutely in the PDN style as far as I’ve seen for many of their contest winners, so you done good kid!
Looks like the coffee may be a bit bitter eh?
April 8th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
I’ve tried many times get some shots of Jessie but she just won’t have it. Great photos!
April 8th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
here’s 1 vote for a LR demo.
when i see your photo i think to myself…that mo-fo hasn’t aged a bit since high school. either that…or the paneling has a ‘fountain of youth’ effect.
rock on jw!
April 8th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
great set of photos. works perfectly as a diptych. good luck! wish i had known, i have face photos laying around!
April 9th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Hey Jay,
Great shots. Hope the entry to PDN makes some waves for you. What’s Lightroom? HA! Still running PS2 over here.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Thanks for the comments everyone. Always appreciated. The contests are a reason to get work out of the computer and sometimes a source of motivation to share.
John/Joe – Glad to hear you are interested in the Lightroom diptych demo. Makes it super easy for book and web layouts. I received one other email about this so I guess that means it is a go, but I don’t think I’ll be able to demo any fountain of youth tricks.
Larry – Lightroom is this thing that is supposed to make organizing your work much easier. The only problem is that it runs on these things people used to call computers. I call them “time-sucking-boxes.”
Eddie Money – Always great to hear from one of the world’s coolest bloggers. “Take Me Home Tonight.”
Lloyd – Take Me To Antarctica! Seriously I had no idea. Awesome work!
Nancy – For anyone checking these comments, Nancy and I went to high school together and she was in my very first photography class. Thanks for the visit. Roots!
April 9th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Rock out! And what’s the LR diptych trick?
April 23rd, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Jay –
I was searching for a way to create a diptych in LR 2 and came across your site. I’ll dig into your tip on creating a custom template in the print module. I actually want to create the diptych for display on a website so I’m guessing that a print template will translate into the web module, or that I can create a custom web template. I’m pretty savvy with LR so I don’t mind tinkering, but if you have the time to shoot me a brief email describing your process, that would be great!
Nice work.
April 28th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
I would love to see the LR diptych demo!
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Thanks Jay
April 30th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
This is great.
May 29th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Jay,
found your site while searching on how to make a diptych in LR. I vote, or if you want to email me at moorefotos@gmail.com, that’d be awesome.
thanks,
Eric
December 30th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
this is awesome! thank you!