This photographer needed 17 square meters of mirror to create this image
Apr 7, 2016
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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When photographer and retoucher Erik Johansson decides to create an image, he certainly makes an effort to push the boat out, quite literally in this case.
In a project that took several months to complete, Erik used 17 square meters of mirror to help produce this extraordinary scene, and while there’s certainly a lot of post and retouching going on here, it was a lot of work in the camera, too!
As well as breaking up the mirrors, numbering all the pieces so they lined up, photographing them in the studio, they all had to be brought out and arranged on location, along with the model, a boat, and even a dead fish.
This 6 minute video takes you through the entire journey from designing the original concept to producing the final image.
It’s an awful lot of work, but I’m sure we all agree that it was well worth the effort.
A higher resolution version can be viewed on Behance, and you can find more of Erik’s work and behind the scenes videos on his website.
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John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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5 responses to “This photographer needed 17 square meters of mirror to create this image”
Or he could have just used one triangle and photoshopped it all together… ;)
True Z , There us already a ton of photoshop in the image aleady not sure why he didnt copy and reshape and resize, could even have just broken a small mirror and used that .
Wow, i find that BTS video more awesome than the actual picture :D Picture is quite nice though.
Amazing!
that looks like a lot of work for a really crap image lol