This video covers the core foundation of what it is to photograph a cosplayer, specifically with the intent of creating composite art. We'll talk about the character, the game, how to approach a cosplayer at comic book convention and more. We'll cover the best practices in the studio to build a...

This scene of the American south-west is the perfect backdrop for Ashe. We'll discuss how to get a series of bracketed images in the camera, both with the natural light in the scene and real shadows, to create our background for the composite.

Now that we have a series of different exposures of our scene, we'll need to combine them together, for preparation to bring Ashe into the artwork.

We'll bring our character to the world we've created with our own stock images and add the realistic shadows necessary to bring a sense of realism to the composite.

Now that our character is established we'll go through the process of color grading and adding elements of realism to bring this composite to life.