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"Everlasting Innocence"

shoggard3
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October 10, 2011, 03:14:16 PM
My best friend, Storm, decided to goof around while I was taking photos of him. Surprising, most of them came out really good even though we didn't do the shoot as planned. He's going for a more detailed shoot next time, though, and we are hoping to make that something bigger for my business (the project where I work with kids is the Des Jeunes project, and he's one of the "models" in it).

Here's the spontaneous portrait, right off the start:
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Marian Murdoch
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Reply #1 - October 10, 2011, 04:37:00 PM
Sorry, but this one is poorly lit, the background wallpaper is mega-distracting (especially the pattern that seems to be going right through his head), his chin is unusually blurry as if he had been caught in the middle of saying something, his eyes are bloodshot, and there's a weird whitish spot above his head. Is that a scar on his chest, or the result of post processing? And why does it look like the color of his skin is merging with his collar?

I think you took a step backward with this one. Sorry.
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jkleb
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Reply #2 - October 12, 2011, 05:07:41 AM
Quote from: Marian Murdoch on October 10, 2011, 04:37:00 PM
Sorry, but this one is poorly lit, the background wallpaper is mega-distracting (especially the pattern that seems to be going right through his head), his chin is unusually blurry as if he had been caught in the middle of saying something, his eyes are bloodshot, and there's a weird whitish spot above his head. Is that a scar on his chest, or the result of post processing? And why does it look like the color of his skin is merging with his collar?

I think you took a step backward with this one. Sorry.

Yep.
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Reply #3 - October 16, 2011, 08:18:49 AM
It looks like a snapshot that you got lucky on that it looks okay. Not bad, not great. That happens, and some of my favorite shots are ones where I got lucky. But with portraits you can't just get lucky. You have to nail it on purpose.
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