Last night we had another shoot postponed due to rain. So I posted something on Facebook and found someone to come out and grab a few photos in the rain and nearby creek. Tried a few new things...
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At first glance I enjoyed seeing the photos. So, take that as a positive.
She is pretty, and I like water.
But, looking for longer than one second, a few things caught my more critical eye:
1. Image One. Intense and artificial blue in water. It draws attention to the water/blue...and generally gives a "fake stuff used here" feeling to image. Either that or she is in effluent from an ink factory.
2. Image Two. Her right arm (image left) looks odd, almost like it was "liquefied" or reconstructed in post. This may be an illusion, but it looks that way to me. In addition, the skin looks Orange in several places (chest, face).
3. Image Three. The color temp of her skin just looks too artificial for scene and the backlit hair (behind her head) looks out of place (or flashed). (Too warm). In fact, this image appears to be a composite, due to the light outline of the body and hair etc.
4. Image Four. The circles in image foreground do not make me think "water or raindrops" but instead: "website background applied as layer to photo" or "texture used here." The face on this image looks SMOOTH while the rest of the body is "wet and dripping."
Steady Hand wrote:
1. Image One. Intense and artificial blue in water. It draws attention to the water/blue...and generally gives a "fake stuff used here" feeling to image. Either that or she is in effluent from an ink factory.
2. Image Two. Her right arm (image left) looks odd, almost like it was "liquefied" or reconstructed in post. This may be an illusion, but it looks that way to me. In addition, the skin looks Orange in several places (chest, face).
3. Image Three. The color temp of her skin just looks too artificial for scene and the backlit hair (behind her head) looks out of place (or flashed). (Too warm). In fact, this image appears to be a composite, due to the light outline of the body and hair etc.
4. Image Four. The circles in image foreground do not make me think "water or raindrops" but instead: "website background applied as layer to photo" or "texture used here." The face on this image looks SMOOTH while the rest of the body is "wet and dripping."
Thanks for the feedback... I don't mean to disagree (I hate when people do that), but wanted to clear a few things up...
1. No fake coloring here. Just flash mixed in after dusk.
2. Yup, I should clean that up a bit.
3. No fake coloring here either. Same as #1.
4. No textures or backgrounds used here either. Just a bunch of hands throwing water.
Sounds like we may just have differences in the artistic purpose of these... and that's ok. But I just wanted to clear it up since there seemed to be some incorrect assumptions there.
Always good and often very original. 4 is my favorite but all are very well done. I'm a little confused by the water in 1 looking like a much longer exposure than I would have guessed. Thanks for sharing.
All really solid images. Four is by far my favorite. Really curious to know how it was done.
First one her head is a bit too submerged and there is a shadow and because of the light refraction it looks like it's just a face and not a whole head.
