On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jan 15, 2012, at 6:41 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > >> Additional shots from my shoot with the shy and reluctant "I look >> terrible in photos" Marzi last week ... > > Tell Marzi that in my professional opinion as a photographer she is > overflowing with hawtness. It's possible that has to do with your skill as a > photographer, but I suspect not. > > As a guy, my opinion would probably just make her blush.
Unsure whether I should pass that along. ;-) >> >> http://goo.gl/hrPwz >> >> From left to right: >> - "Once upon a time in the west" > > Very nice, the shadows add mystery. I'm not sure what the thing that looks > like a goldfish cookie on a leather thong is, I'd use my adjustment brush > and "burn it to black" dropping the exposure and brightness. I'd also like > to see it cropped in a lot tighter on her. as much as you can off the left, > and bottom. For that matter, I might even crop off a bit of the hat in the > upper right. Yeah, I could see a square crop for this that would do pretty-much what you're suggesting. Were I to reshoot this though, I'd include a barely illuminated backdrop/background to give her outline definition. Mystery is nice, but I'm afraid it tends toward gloom territory here. >> - "Madame X" > > Madme X is interesting. It almost looks overprocessed, but that ends up also > almost making it look like a 1940's glamour shot. If it looked any more 40's > I'd be wondering where the cigarette with curling smoke was. I like the way > that it lookes like you played with varying levels of saturation too. I forgot to warn folks that this one is intentionally *way* overprocessed. I used Portraiture settings that amount to cranking all the smoothing sliders to 11. And I desaturated it a fair amount too. I was aiming for a Lillian Bassman look (1950's fashion shooter) and I think I got a fair rendition. No smoking at my place, but I might be able to 'shop something in. :-) >> - "Fresh" > > Very nice. > >> - "Mischief" > > In many ways that may be the best of the set. > > I'm really looking forward to what you can get now that she realizes she > actually looks good in front of the camera and will probably be more likely > to relax, play and get silly. > >> >> The first three are lit solely by a bare, battery-powered 160-LED >> "video light" on a light stand. $79 at Amazon. Great lighting tool. >> >> "Mischief" is a rework of the one I showed before with pretty subtle >> changes suggested by a couple of people. >> >> Enjoy, and comments welcome. >> >> -- >> -bmw > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est I appreciate your comments, Larry. Thanks! -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
