Waiting Your Turn in Line for Gas

Some people take all day filling their trucks...

Nice cloudy overcast Sunday everyone.

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Caution Tech Stuff and Fun Story:

Today's little tale started as a small 3" plastic model. I shot it on some black cloth and then knocked it out.

I then went to my local gas station for a fill-up but before doing that I shot myself with a timer against my car. The camera was on a tripod facing me and the empty gas pump. Not more than a minute into this shooting setup, a Middle Eastern Manager comes running out of the store yelling "what are you doing?" After explaining what I was doing he looked confused, turned around and went back in. I finished my shoot, pumped my gas and split.

Back home I picked the best shot from the location and married the truck with it. Using some image distortion tricks with the "free transform" command in Photoshop I fixed some of the look angles of the truck. From there I added the drop shadow under the truck with a soft edge black paint brush set to about 25% opacity in a new layer below the truck.

After removing some power lines I cropped the image. Then it was flattened and a blur layer was added. I sharpened the original bottom image and saved my work. Enjoy...