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Muscle Mass
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A shot of the brother in law for his folio.
Taken in the living room with a strobe and brolly.
Converted to mono.I can see alot of people going yuck at the muscles including me, but it would be nice if they can see past that and look at it from a lighting point.
Also a change from my normal macro shots.
Cheers Gareth
Shot with a brolly and a LARGE amount of photoshopping :) I have two issues with the lighting. The first is the fact that model is not grounded, he’s floating in space, so it’s a little bit disorienting to look at the image. It also looks unnatural to me because I would expect some drop off from the light, where here it appears too even. I guess all in all it’s over cooked in photoshop. This would look really good on a poster where there is text etc. but as a stand alone photo it doesn’t work for me. As for contrast, it’s a high contrast image but too compressed, I’d rather see a wider range of tones. As it is now there are a few greys and black, I kind of miss all the other tones.
Well exposed, good and sharp, but the processing and lighting are too unnatural for me. You might also consider a composition which is less static and central.
I get what Ciaran is saying, but I think for someone’s portfolio, you’re not after interesting compositions etc. you just want a picture showing how muscular the guy is, so I’d say he’s fairly happy with this.
What did you use for a background here? IS he just cropped onto a black background in photoshop or is the background actually real?
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