Description: Medium portrait of Emily Hull experimenting with my new eye apendage which is a Steve Mann-type invention. The eye apendage has multiple uses and the design allows the user to decide it's function on any given occasion. Emily is trecking out into the urban wild to learn more about these humans we call city-folk!
Intentions: To use flash in a composition that would normally be reserved for studio portraiture. Also I'm attempting to create an intriguing image like that by Diane Arbus and other photographers who use on-camera flash to fill-in their subjects and highlight certain elements in the frame.
Good/Bad: The flash creates a flat lighting effect so I could have asked Emily to turn her shoulder to the camera to create more depth and intrigue. I could have experimented more with covering the flash in area's to highlight certain parts of her face and avoid lighting the background.
I really like the effect of the orange lights which creates a warm glow around her (no colour correction attempted). Also her smile is coming right from her and not coaxed by me at all because tow homeless men had just passed by and made some cute comment about Emily's head-gear that she just had to break out in that fabulous smile!
Evaluation: I want to experiment again with flash by creating a higher contrast between subjects and backgrounds which being more selective about where the fill flash should fall.
1 comment:
Playful and fun, but photographically - snapshots.
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* PS - the structured critique is only for the critiques of other people's works - loosen up your style and comments for your own work.
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