Work in progress: two challenges with one shot

pyry

Here's what I'm working on, I'm thinking of entering something like this in both 2.4 and Mini 7.



Shooting at meself in a mirror, holding a grad-ND in front of my face.

Do you guys like it? Hate it? Room for improvement anywhere?

joshhuntnm

i like it. I'd like to see a little more separation from the background.

davev

pyry wrote:

Here's what I'm working on, I'm thinking of entering something like this in both 2.4 and Mini 7.

Do you guys like it? Hate it? Room for improvement anywhere?

I'm using the same shot for both challenges also. Are we getting lazy?:D

It's not bad the way that it is, but maybe you could try a couple of things.
I know a lot of folks don't like selective color, but this shot might work with your face in color, body in B&W,
or the other way around.

Your face looks just a touch soft. Maybe a little more sharping where the ND is.

It is a nice shot.

pyry

Thanks for the tips. I'll do a re-shoot tomorrow

pyroPrints.com

pyry wrote:

Thanks for the tips. I'll do a re-shoot tomorrow

I really do like it. Maybe a bit more sharpness? but it's a good idea/execution.

Llywellyn

Ditto what the others saide before me. I'd be curious to see what it looks like with your hair pulled back, too. Might distract less from the face.

pyry

Well, unsurprisingly, I'm a really difficult model.

I hit a completely different set of subtleties with the re-shoot.

Llywellyn wrote:

Ditto what the others saide before me. I'd be curious to see what it looks like with your hair pulled back, too. Might distract less from the face.

Just for you Kerry



I am going to go bonkers choosing between these.
If you see a fourth variation in the entry threads, I've done a another re-shoot and you can call in the nice men with their clean white coats to take me away, hahaa!

pyroPrints.com

I like #2 just a little bit more than #1, but what is that line in the lower half?

Llywellyn

pyry wrote:

Just for you Kerry

I like it! I love long hair on men, but this shot works a bit better with it away from your face, IMO. I'm wondering if a crop from the right, about to your wrist, would strengthen this more.

pyry

pyroPrints.com wrote:

I like #2 just a little bit more than #1, but what is that line in the lower half?

It's a gap between two parts of the mirror, I guess I was leaning on the camera a bit to push it high enough into the picture that I didn't want to crop it out right away.

llywellyn wrote:

I like it! I love long hair on men, but this shot works a bit better with it away from your face, IMO. I'm wondering if a crop from the right, about to your wrist, would strengthen this more.

You know what, I think you're right. And the crop would also get rid of the line Pyro noticed enough to mention.

So I think we have a final product now:



Thank you very, very much for the feedback!