Savanna Sunset Wildlife Composite

Creative composite

A seated pose shot against white is moved to a savanna at sunset, with a leopard added beside the model and the light turned from cool front to warm back.

Golden hour
Wildlife
Relighting

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Finished composite of the same pose in savanna grass at sunset beside a leopard, lit warm from behind — Drag anywhere on the image, or focus the handle and use the arrow keys, to compare before and after.

Unedited capture of a model seated on the floor against a white studio backdrop under flat frontal light — Drag anywhere on the image, or focus the handle and use the arrow keys, to compare before and after.

Project overview

The studio frame is lit flat and cool from the front; the concept is backlit golden hour. That is not a colour adjustment. The light in the capture comes from the wrong place, and a warm grade alone would give an orange picture with studio lighting inside it.

Transformation details

The studio light came from the wrong place for a backlit sunset, so the background was built first and the sun's position fixed before anything else was decided.
The model was relit with a warm rim along the shoulder and the arm nearest the sun, and the original frontal light pulled down until it behaves like bounce rather than a key.
A leopard was placed at the same distance from camera and given the same rim, then one ground shadow was drawn under both so they share a plane.
Haze went in between the foreground and the tree line, which stops the composite looking like two sharp layers.