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Back From the Dead.
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Would like some feedback on this picture, it’s for a portrait assignment I’m working on.
It’s to go along with some other pictures I posted in the people section last week. They are in the thread Not the Normal Portrait.
Any thoughts anyone?
Sinead.I think you could tweak the lighting to mae it look more clinical. Light justs looks a tad dull. Not sure how you’d do it as I’m terrible with lighting but I just think it could do with a more hygienic mortuary type look. Its not really coming across here. I think because its only the back of a person you need to work extra hard on the lighting to get across the mood of the scene because there’s no face to emphasise that the person is dead or whatever…. I’m not really making sense here :oops: :oops: :oops:
Sorry I can’t be much help but they’re just my thoughts anyways.
Brian
I do like the composition in this one-
but I think that the body looks very much alive-
not too sure if this is important for the series-Perhaps something that could be helped by colour?
j
Thanks for the feedback guys, it’s always nice when people reply to posts!
Brian, I get what your saying about the lighting and it being clinical and I agree and I also get your dead or alive point.. I’m not sure myself if I want the subject to be dead or alive.
J, you are making the same point about weather the subject is dead or alive.. and I suppose I need to figure out what I want to get across with these.
On the colour point, I want them to look kind of desaturated and drained, I didn’t do a very good job of it here.. I’m a complete airhead with PS, need somebody to hold my hand with things like this :oops:Thank you both for your comments, they were very helpful.
I think it’s pretty good, but I would like to see it completely B&W, and darker, with a tighter crop to remove the ‘dead’ (geddit?) space on top, to see how it looks.
Mark.
Just another thought…if you converted to B&W & did some dodging & burning on the subjects’ ribs in PS it might really make them stand out-it might be in line with what you’re looking for from the picture-I’m not sure.
Mark.
Hi Mark, for this assignment the digital images must be in colour so I don’t have any choice on the matter. I did manage to learn a few PS things today though :o
I do agree it needs a crop, but disagree about removing the dead space but cheers for the feedback.
Sinead.
The empty space at the top does nothing for me. I like the pose and lighting though. Messing about on my own (not going to post it, since you have your profile marked to no editing), doing a curves adjustment with the Linear Contrast setting in CS3 and -30 in Saturation gives it a nice dead feeling, but I dunno if that’s what you’re looking for or not.
Here is another little bit of work I did today.. I think it might be a bit too sharp. Some people may not like the ‘dead space’ in these pictures but I think it works.
This make up the panel I will be handing in, will prob have another go at the processing before I hand them in, but I think I’m getting there.
Thoughts anyone?Sinead.
antifuse, I guess the dead space is not going to be to everyones taste but I will be keeping it. I think you are prob right about it needing more desaturation though. I will have another go at the processing, but not tonight….. I’m ‘DEAD’ tired!! He he!!
Sinead.
Ok, I’m still confused-
in the first one , the eye is looking at me-
The tag on the toe is definitely representing expiration,
but its not backed up by the colouring on the feet-In a way, this could maybe go beyond processing,
and could probably be helped more at capture, through makeup-I think I prefer the first of the face down ones-
And maybe desaturation might help-
but so might the colour green, for some reason-
maybe because its the opposite of red-
and has connotations of exsanguination-And I like the empty space,
and never like to hear it called ‘Dead’j
J, I can see how this is confusing. Don’t think I have nailed it just yet.
I have different versions of the feet shot that I might play around with,
they have different messages on them.I think I’m looking for these pictures to be lifeless rather than dead if
that make sense? I like the contrast of lifelessness and colour. I will be
handing in 5 B&W’s from film also, which will be full of life but lacking
in colour.
I’m hoping I will be able to pull it off!!Glad you like the empty space, I don’t think there is enough of it the back
shot.
Guess I’m not as close to being finished as I thought I was!Cheers for feedback.
Sinead.Interesting project.
The first image is my favourite, just like the pose a lot.
As a set I’d try to make them all as similar in style as possible.
Just not sure they work as well as a set due to the mix of horizontal and vertical.
Possibly try a square crop.
The last few I think have potential too, but the contrast is far too high with blown bits.
I’d go for a softer more muted look to get across a feeling of calm deadness.
Harsh contrast suggests something dramatic or shocking, to me anyways.
Colour is important too, more bluey greens and less warm tones would work better.Mick.
Ok, I’m still playing around with these pictures. Can’t make up my mind if I like this or not.
C&C welcome as always.
Sinead.
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