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This was fun. No, really it was! Marc Aspland, Sports Photographer extraordinaire for The Times shot four Tae Kwon Do experts for a feature on London Olympics hopefuls. The idea was to bring each high-kicking athlete into a single image. Marc set up a dark cloth background in a gym and used a single Elinchrom light to the left of camera with a softbox and shot all four separately showing their skills. You can see the light in the original image below. The biggest challenge was making the floor look realistic which meant lots of use of the lasso tool and cloning stamp in Photoshop. When the positioning felt correct I copied a shadow from one of the shots and duplicated it for the others then spent some time bringing detail into the tracksuits and shadows. Another small flash to the right would have made it a lot easier for me Marc! The final image was used across two pages in The Times. Good work Mike (and Marc). To see more of Mr Aspland's brilliant work go to marcaspland.com
