Selfportrait

ivar

I'm taking a photography course. It's a basic course at the School for Professional Photography, and it's a lot of fun. It's basically an introduction to a lot of things. From the basics of the camera, to studio shooting, and a lot more. Also, a lot of shooting; Free work for each next class, plus some assignments.

One assignment for the next class is to 'copy an existing photograph'. Any photo would be allowed, as long is it was interesting, and at least a bit challenging in a certain way.

Even before this assignment, I've been a fan of Abbie Warnock's 'Devil's Advocate', and I already had plans to give something like that a shot.
This assignment was the perfect opportunity! I arranged for a helping hand, some time, black background and some face paint...




C&C much appreciated.

heatherfeather

Creeeeeepy...
But love it.

You are one scary looking guy!

Darren Troy C

I echoe Heather's comments as well. I think a microscopic sliver of more "you" detail would help, but nonetheless.....a very interesting concept and it's executed well.

justME

and I it!!!
Looks great on my lappy. I think your going to ace the class.

Agnieszka

Scaryyyyy ... haha! Well done!

whiterice

Perfectly executed.

Zarathustra

Beautifully executed! Out of curiosity, did you black out your face and hair with makeup or PS?

[Edit]Read the rest of your post a little more carefully. You had already answered my question. See the hazards of posting something incredible like that? People pay no attention to the text![/Edit]

Michelle Sidles

Kinda freaky. Eek!

However, from a photography standpoint, HOMERUN!

Llywellyn

Awesome and inspiring. From an execution and posing standpoint, you nailed it. For processing, your blackness looks a little less rich and much warmer than the original. My perception of "richness" may be the difference in paint: yours looks more matte than the original. But that's just nitpicking.

lisap

Wow! Very cool. Love it.

How long did it take to get that black paint off!?

austinstrobist

Like whoa~

dreamcometrue

Awesome job!

schmoo

And the crowd goes wild!

Seriously, it's awesome that you pulled this off so perfectly. I have no nits at all and even though you don't post photos that often it's soooo worth the wait! :ivar

Ed911

Very well done. It looks great on my calibrated monitor...and I suspect the same on anyone's monitor. Thanks for sharing.

ShepsMom

I almost fall of my chair. Good thing it's light outside

ivar

woah, thanks for looking, and all the kind comments, guys! It's much appreciated

ivar

Zarathustra wrote:

Beautifully executed! Out of curiosity, did you black out your face and hair with makeup or PS?

[Edit]Read the rest of your post a little more carefully. You had already answered my question. See the hazards of posting something incredible like that? People pay no attention to the text![/Edit]

Heh, yeah, that was part of the fun part, the facepaint

My face/neck/ears/etc. and my hands and hair were all painted black with facepaint. We also used some eyeliner and eyebrow pencil for my eyes. It took a while to get it done, actually

ivar

Llywellyn wrote:

Awesome and inspiring. From an execution and posing standpoint, you nailed it. For processing, your blackness looks a little less rich and much warmer than the original. My perception of "richness" may be the difference in paint: yours looks more matte than the original. But that's just nitpicking.

Thanks! Yes, I saw the same problem. However, as far as processing this image, I did very little. It's almost straight-out-of-camera. I think that the difference in shine/richness/warmth is mainly because of the difference of facepaint she and I used

ivar

lisap wrote:

Wow! Very cool. Love it.

How long did it take to get that black paint off!?

It took a good while, actually

I washed my hair several times, and spent more than a few minutes in the shower.
The funny thing was that most of it was done with facepaint on a water-base. That came of relatively well. My eyes were done with eyeliner/eyebrow pencil. That wasn't so easy to get off, especially without any special cleaning products