It looks like someone forgot a puppy in a shopping bag in this phone booth in London . . . but of course this is a composite. I photographed the American Eskimo puppy in the bag in my studio against a black background using a large soft box which simulates diffused light. To create the composite, I opened the street shot from London in Photoshop and selected several windowpanes at the bottom of the phone booth using the pen tool. When I pasted the picture of the puppy into the selected area (Edit > paste special > paste into) and resized it (Edit > transform > scale), I then used the blend mode 'lighten' found in the layers palette to eliminate the original black background from the puppy’s very fine hair. I took the original picture of the street with a 24-105mm lens, and the settings were .8 seconds, f/22, 320 ISO, and I used a tripod. If I had to confine myself to photographing only one subject, it would have to be puppies.
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