Rising

SimpsonBrothers

C&C Please

If you could, please tell me what you feel from the photo...



Taken on: November 19, 2010 at 10.15pm PST
Camera: Canon EOS 40D
Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Flash: 580EX +3 ceiling bounce, 550ex to backdrop

briandelion

This is a great image! I hope you don't mind. I cropped and rotated. Reason being: more feeling of movement at a dynamic angle than vertical and static. Eliminating some darkness below gives more the impression that he is moving toward something. Just my take on it.

Icebear

How I feel is "this is one weird, and borderline disturbing image."

Why do I feel that way? Hell, IDK. You didn't ask what I THOUGHT. You asked how I felt. That's a pretty brave thing to ask. It's a question that prolly drives the moderators crazy, as they try to assess whether responses are within the bounds of propriety or not.

Is the banding a result of compression, or inherent in the image?

I didn't say I didn't like it BTW.

rainbow

A young "Gollum" came to mind immediately...

reyvee61

I feel like this image would have worked far better outside of studio situation.
It does not move me or evoke any emotion.....

Not to say it's a bad image necessarily....

I think the banding is caused in post processing with harsh vignettes

TravWilliams

I feel a little chilled by this one!

It seems victorious or hopeful, but in an evil sort of way. Probably how Voldemort or any other classic bad guy felt after being released from purgatory.

The darkness is what does that; the blackened eyes, featureless legs, and shadowed ribs. If it was lighter, but the same position it would feel spiritual I think.

--Trav--

reyvee61

Yikes, I think, my reply sounds so terribly harsh...I didn't mean it that way

SimpsonBrothers

Thank you for all of your comments, the feeling I was going for came across perfectly.

As for the banding, must be from the compression. None on the original.

Jago-ViG

rainbow wrote: »

A young "Gollum" came to mind immediately...

This.

lizzard_nyc

Like I'm seeing a photo of a young and exhaltant Jigsaw (bad guy from Saw). I am more curious than creeped out.

I say you use it for your holiday card.

As to Rainbow's associating with Gollum--Gollum was likeable in a freakish sort of way and I felt some empathy for him in the movies. I feel no empathy here, that's why I went with Jigsaw, just fyi.

EDIT: I think it's a tremendous image.

SimpsonBrothers

Thank you!
I tried to add as much creapy factor as possible, including painting in ribs.

zoomer

I looked at it for a couple minutes and really nothing came to me.
Probably because it is a little kid, but that is just my own bias coming through.
When I opened it my immediate impression was dark and blurry....then I though "the photographer is going for a creepy mood".
Maybe a bit lighter with a fog effect and some uneven strong contrasty light in the back.....

I do love black and white and it is nice to see something different. Got any more along these lines?

Hackbone

Not how I would portray a child. I don't think many parents would purchase this one. Now if you had a specific purpose for creating it OK. I know art is in the eye of the beholder but my eye says it's not art.