Shot the other day.
Check it out and tell me what you think.
(Kind of unorthodox, taking portraits at night, I know. We had conflicting schedules; but I think I made it work.)
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Composition looks good but gotta watch out on those colors. The street lighting leaves a sickly green cast without proper WB. Some color tweaking in PP can help remove the cast:
http://geekyweekly.com/portrait.jpg
I kind of liked the green.
I've been into some more off kilter white balances as of late.
Like here's one from the same shoot with a more white white balance. I just didn't find it as visually appealing.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/niallmccarthy/2422876570/
Because his face is obscured in the first one I felt that the blueish green hue added a sense of mystery and a different visual dimension.
It's an interesting picture, I like the green and blue-mystery for sure.
However, Senior pictures are supposed to be just a portrait? Not something full of mystery...
I do like the others better, but not because of the color; the eyes make a huge difference. Just seems hard to connect to a portrait without them. My fav of the bunch seems to be the contrasty BW "film" shot:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/niallmccarthy/2422878598/
To clarify a little: 1. My camera's autofocus is malfunctioning due to the sand so I couldn't reposition him to much in fear of losing focus. 2. Because we had to take these at night and I didn't want to blast him with flash, we were using LONG exposure times (3-13 secs) because I had to lower the ISO to get rid of noise and up the aperture to get max sharpness... i.e. It was a very tricky shoot.
He only needed one picture which ended up being the one that Andrew said reminded him of film. As for the rest.. I know that as portraits they are definitely sub-par and break a lot of rules but I thought that as just an arbitrary photograph I liked them much more!
Thanks for the input on this one guys.
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