Damsel

heatherfeather

Tell me what you think of this picture. It is chilled and steamed.
(It really was cold, (-1) check out the goosebumps on her legs...)


Really, C & C please....

heatherfeather

heatherfeather wrote:

Tell me what you think of this picture. It is chilled and steamed.
(It really was cold, (-1) check out the goosebumps on her legs...)


Really, C & C please....

Man... with this resolution you can't see the goosebumps... Darnit:cry

cabbey

heatherfeather wrote:

Tell me what you think of this picture. It is chilled and steamed.
(It really was cold, (-1) check out the goosebumps on her legs...)


Really, C & C please....

It's a great concept. The pose is great, but the composition leaves me cold. The white snow on the right kinda merges with her face and clothes. it leaves an almost split down the middle dark on the left, light on the right that just seems... i dunno... too symmetrical. I've never been a fan of the Ro3, but in this case it might help.

sunita

Great idea! I think her expression and posture compensate for the (not-so-visible) goosebumps. I would try and decrease the contrast a bit. The white is a little too harsh.

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heatherfeather

cabbey wrote:

It's a great concept. The pose is great, but the composition leaves me cold. The white snow on the right kinda merges with her face and clothes. it leaves an almost split down the middle dark on the left, light on the right that just seems... i dunno... too symmetrical. I've never been a fan of the Ro3, but in this case it might help.

Forgive a poor ignorent girl... what is Ro3? I am still figuring out all of you people's abbreviations...


Yeah, I can see what you mean with the snow.. It is in Raw so I can mess with it a bunch. I just had a couple of minutes to work on it. I 'll see what I can do tonight.

BTW- thanks for the input, both of you!

heatherfeather

Here is another try with darker on the side... hmmm. whatdayathink?

heatherfeather

Or there is also this view... I don't like it as much because of a couple reasons.

Nikolai

HeatherFeather

heatherfeather wrote:

Or there is also this view... I don't like it as much because of a couple reasons.

I like this one better! You can see it's cold by her posture....

One other thing to remember - entries should fit the 800x800 box

HTH

System

I'm not sure what it is but to me these feel really contrived (I know they are, but they really feel it.) The first image is a much better image, though it conveys a feeling of annoyance of frustration more than chilled. Steamy works better here with the vapor coming off the radiator. Trouble for me in the 1st image is that the crop feel too tight top/bottom. The second image does work better for chilled but it's not nearly as nice an image as the first.

heatherfeather

truth wrote:

I'm not sure what it is but to me these feel really contrived (I know they are, but they really feel it.) The first image is a much better image, though it conveys a feeling of annoyance of frustration more than chilled. Steamy works better here with the vapor coming off the radiator. Trouble for me in the 1st image is that the crop feel too tight top/bottom. The second image does work better for chilled but it's not nearly as nice an image as the first.

Hey thanks, Truth....
I am not sure what to do about the crop... It is actually a horizontal view that I cropped to a portrait view. It also had to be straightened quite a bit, because the car was up on a snowbank and looked quite crooked-y making the crop even smaller.
Also, we didn't get out there until the sun was full up (lots of different reasons) so the light was very bright causing the contrast to be extreme.

Reshoot would be possible, but not so much fun. It is stinking cold out here in Alaska- and poor thing had to take her coat off... But if we did, what do you think we could do to make it not as "contrived" looking?

Again! Thanks for your candor...

System

Well, since the details of goosebumps are going to be impossible to see at these resolutions I'd strive to use the whole scene to create the feeling you want. Shooting from a distance and bringing in more of the environment in landscape aspect could be really cool. I'd frame it with the girl about 1/3 of the way into the frame on the left and try to get some OOF cars on the road to the right to give it some distance and scale. I'd set up with a tripod and cable release to get the composition perfect and keep it perfect. Then I'd tell her to just hang out, allowing her to react a bit to the cold and traffic while shooting 3fps. That might get you that one frame the really tells the story while looking like a candid.

Cindy

heatherfeather wrote:

Here is another try with darker on the side... hmmm. whatdayathink?

I like this one best. I don't mind the crop at all. It shows the road faintly with no help in sight but it's close enough to show both the stream from the car and her emotions on the rise. I like that she's cold but more than that I see her frustration level / inner steam building and about to explode just like the car.

cabbey

heatherfeather wrote:

Forgive a poor ignorent girl... what is Ro3? I am still figuring out all of you people's abbreviations...

"Rule of Thirds"

heatherfeather

cabbey wrote:

"Rule of Thirds"

Oh... that makes sense. gotcha. Thanks

binghott

i really dig the concept, but i'm not sure if the harsh light is working well.