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Post by Antonio Correia on May 30, 2013 18:04:56 GMT
This picture is part of a project I will explain later on. Meanwhile I would like your opinion on it. It is not in a studio but in a dark room with a window on the left (with a flash against the black wall) and a flash on his head. |
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Post by rasbury on May 30, 2013 23:06:28 GMT
I love it.A very well exposed image with good lighting.Am curious to see what the others have to say though.
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Post by jjbacoomba on May 30, 2013 23:55:32 GMT
Love it. Love your use of lighting. You captured his face which seems lost in thought.Like the shadows too. Very well done.
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Post by chrisc on May 31, 2013 3:07:24 GMT
Both your exposure and compostional skills have always been good, but in this image, I see you have progressed up two or three levels. Nicely lit, composed and posed.
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Post by janis on May 31, 2013 3:50:34 GMT
Beautiful.
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Post by Antonio Correia on May 31, 2013 16:58:49 GMT
Thank you all for the kind comments  What is the project all about ? It is called " Notable citizens" and the description is in Portuguese in my site for the time being but it will be soon translated. I kindly ask you to translate to get a better ideia but the essencial is to photograph people from Setúbal which are notable somehow. Politics are OUT ! Mourinho - the football trainer - is from Setubal but very hard to get the image. However, others are important in the international scene. I do photography much I mean much, by feeling, sense, flair ! I was photographing with one flash only against the black wall near the window where the light was coming from. I have seen before that it was giving some kind of softness in the areas of the person like face, coat and so on. I decided then to add the second snooted flash. All were manual. Someone hold it for me up like the Statue of Liberty. I saw it was working and I make some other photographs which were not so good because he was looking at me or... BTW: he is younger than I am just for two days and we were both born is the very same place, probably the very same room, been to high school together... He is a mathematician which Curriculum Vitae will be show on the web in some days. |
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Post by chrisc on May 31, 2013 19:33:26 GMT
I think, instead of papers at his knee, I would consider a math book, spine toward the viewer to make a subtle connection. You might go as a far as a pen in his right hand as if he is between marks.
Lastly, his eyes don't seem to be focused on anything..does it serve a puprpose that he is looking down and away?
(and, it is whole, not hole)
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Post by Antonio Correia on May 31, 2013 19:39:52 GMT
Thank you Chris for the hole. I mean whole  Perhaps you are right but I am not going to ask him again to pose for me. Something to take in consideration in the near future Have a nice week-end |
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Post by Stevewebb on Jun 2, 2013 6:56:30 GMT
Beautiful image Antonio. Very nicely done indeed. Welcome back by the way. If I had to pick one thing I didn't like about the image it is the piece of chair I can see behind his right elbow. It looks like you have a good enough contrast on that edge to select it out and remove the chair but I am just trying to find something wrong out of jealousy maybe  Superb, just superb. |
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Post by Antonio Correia on Jun 2, 2013 10:42:42 GMT
Thank you Steve I "have seen" that chair since the beginning. I did not remove because I am afraid not to be able to erase it (or clone it) completely and without any traces. But I will make a try. BTW - About about diving in this international project ? Do work and lieve where you were born ? Don't know notable people ? Never mind. Go to them and tell them about the project. ! Just start ! |
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