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Perhaps heavy eye makeup is in vogue but I think it doesn’t do a lot for Beth in this shot.
Though…cover the lower half of her face and her eyes are compelling.Stunning image, I think the smokey heavy eye’s look fantastic. I think the bright eye’s really stand out with the dark makeup. Have the eye’s been whitened in post processing? The model has great skin for closeups and the DOF is spot on. Well done great shot………………..
Derek………..
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Perhaps heavy eye makeup is in vogue but I think it doesn’t do a lot for Beth in this shot.
Though…cover the lower half of her face and her eyes are compelling.I’ve cropped all but the eyes out in another version and they certainly are quite compelling.
I’m in two minds about makeup. I like the contrast it brings, but I converted the image to duotone to try tone down it’s impact somewhat.
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Ok, I’m biased because I only shot Frankie yesterday, but I can’t believe you went for B&W with her eyes… but leaving that aside..
All in all I think it’s a technically very well delivered photo. Good exposure, nice tones in the conversion, well composed, sharp etc etc. I can’t fault it or suggest anything I could improve. But with all that going for it, it doesn’t appeal to me? Not sure why…?
DerekLaverty wrote:
Stunning image, I think the smokey heavy eye’s look fantastic. I think the bright eye’s really stand out with the dark makeup. Have the eye’s been whitened in post processing? The model has great skin for closeups and the DOF is spot on. Well done great shot………………..
Derek………..
Thanks Derek.
No whitening in pp. I boosted shadow contrast, adjusted levels and desaturated in Rawshooter. Converted to duotone in PS. That’s as far as post processing went.ciaran wrote:
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Ok, I’m biased because I only shot Frankie yesterday, but I can’t believe you went for B&W with her eyes… but leaving that aside..
All in all I think it’s a technically very well delivered photo. Good exposure, nice tones in the conversion, well composed, sharp etc etc. I can’t fault it or suggest anything I could improve. But with all that going for it, it doesn’t appeal to me? Not sure why…?
I can’t say that I’m biased but it is a shame not to show of those eyes, I was thinking in Ciaran’s shot that thank God he didn’t go black and white, any chance of seeing the colour it would be interesting to see her eyes with all that make up. Mind it is a great picture, almost forgot about tht bit.
Sodaciaran wrote:
Welcome to the forum beast :)
Thanks!
ciaran wrote:
Ok, I’m biased because I only shot Frankie yesterday, but I can’t believe you went for B&W with her eyes… but leaving that aside..
Her eyes came out a much duller shade of blue in the shots I have. Possibly due to your using natural light? Or perhaps she uses contacts? I’m not sure but there’s an enormous difference in the eye colour. If I got what you got, B&W would never have entered my head.
You can see it in this shot.
All in all I think it’s a technically very well delivered photo. Good exposure, nice tones in the conversion, well composed, sharp etc etc. I can’t fault it or suggest anything I could improve. But with all that going for it, it doesn’t appeal to me? Not sure why…?
Hey i love the shot and i think it is refreshing to see something of me in black and white. It looks really striking. Personally I think the make-up works on it. Have you got anymore I can take a look at? I seem to be getting all over this site recently. Like the plague. Anyway ‘beast’ I love it and would like to see more – email me some when you are free.
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Beast – I have never worn contacts, must be light. My blue is all natural.
its not every model that works with bw and she does very well i prefer the bw to the col. only one thing that i would have done, come back out a lil because the lens makes her face a lil plumper than it is distorts it a small bit, otherwise very good shot and no whitening of the eyes either which they all seem to have gone mad on here. !
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Beast – I have never worn contacts, must be light. My blue is all natural.
It must be the light. Contacts can change eye colour and that was the only reason I mentioned it. Sorry… I didn’t mean anything by it.
Your blue is lovely by the way. I just wish I could have captured it.Beast, colour will change with exposure. Shots that are slightly underexposed tend to have more saturated colours and shots which approach over exposure become a little more washed out. Your second shot is a touch over leading to a loss of the blueness/colour, so this is probably the same issue with the first? Also, as you mentioned the colour of light in which the model is photographed will also impact colour saturation as will white balance. Out of the two, I’d definitely go for the B&W conversion like you did. As I said.. nice shot :)
Hey Beast it’s fine just didnt want people thinking that I need to wear contacts to achieve that look, only wear a bucket of make-up to get images this great LOL
Beth and Beast a lovely picture and the eyes are still beautiful. :oops: although I have to agree with Ciaran (twice today) the conversion is better.
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