Whimsical Worlds: Fantasy Composite Photography

Rachel Owen
Course Number: 24
Level: All Levels

Take your creativity to a new level as we learn the benefits and structure of composite photography! Learn to pre-visualize, shoot, and blend images seamlessly, unlocking your creative potential.

This class will be hands-on with participants styling, shooting, editing, and learning how to create captivating images that tell compelling stories. We’ll also explore various sources of inspiration, helping you to gather ideas and spark creativity.

This is an intermediate-level class, with a strong emphasis on Photoshop. By the end of the week, you’ll have a solid grasp on how to lay out composites to produce polished and professional-quality storytelling images.

Why You Should Take This Class:

  • Inspiration: Techniques for capturing and sourcing creative ideas.
  • Pre-Visualization: Essential considerations to ensure a seamless compositing process.
  • Compositing: The practical steps to bringing your vision to life in Photoshop.

Meet the Instructors:

Rachel Owen
Chicago, IL
[email protected]
rachelowen.com

Rachel Owen is a photographer living and working with her husband and son in the Chicagoland area. As an Adobe Certified Photoshop Expert she often merges photos of her subjects in the studio on greenscreen into miniature objects or even combines multiple photographs to create a new setting that does not exist in the real world.  Rachel is a Portraits Master accredited Master Photographer, WPPI Double Master, PPA Master Photographer, consecutive Diamond Photographer of The Year, and has represented the United States multiple times in the World Photographic Cup.

Rachel was ranked the world’s number one portrait photographer in 2022 by One Eyeland, 2024’s Digital Artist of the Year by IIC, and has numerous first place awards in international professional photography competitions.  Rachel’s primary goal when photographing anyone is to make the person in front of her lens feel empowered, and to have that empowerment show up and provoke the viewer.  Her images are often described as surreal and whimsical, and they take the viewer into a fantasy to blur the lines of reality and fiction. Rachel describes her own passion for creating as, “A fire burning in my heart, imprisoned in my bones.  I grow weary of holding it back, until I cannot.”