Thursday, November 11

Doug Barlow’s Creative and Fun Christmas Cards

by Karen Robert

I found these great Christmas cards on Flickr done by a guy named Doug Barlow. He has great ideas, he takes great photographs, and on top of that, he has talented photoshopping skills. All these talents are put to good use for the making of his creative and fun Christmas cards.

Here is his card for 2008:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/doug_and_anna/3119250307/

Doug explains how he put it together,

“Strobist:
Strobes left and right pointed at a low white ceiling.

2 exposures put together in photoshop. 1 of my daughter and the setting and another of my wife and I

I have so much fun putting together our Christmas cards every year. Our families have come to expect something a little different from us and we usually get a great response.

If you look close you can see the camera remote between my fingers ”

and here is the following year’s card:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/doug_and_anna/4206516318/

Last year (2009) we wanted to make it more about Evinn, so we came up with the concept of her blackmailing santa. Technically the whole family is in the card. My wife is the mommy kissing santa, and I’m the lucky santa

We both loved the idea of Evinn showing the pictures to santa while eating the cookies and milk that she left out for him. She’s at a very manipulative age

This is a composite of a couple of pictures
• Evinn, cookies, milk table and background in one
• hand with pictures (really holding polariods, but pics photoshopped in)
• hand and book (naughty and nice on book photoshopped in)

Strobist: all shots were done with the same set-up, just pieced together so i had more freedom to move things around.

can’t remember my shutter speed, but it was fairly long to let the christmas lights in the background burn in a little.

sb-28 with a makeshift snoot with a white diffuser, behind subject camera left.
sb-25 in a white shoot through umbrella camera right, above, just out of frame”

I can’t wait to see what they come up with this year.

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