02-22-12 – Noir: Embrace Your Dark Side

Argh, this one’s going to be super last-minute for me. I have 3 outdoor locations scouted out, sketches done, lighting pre-set, but I need a model for the angles I’m going for, and my friend backed out last-minute today. Hoping I can find someone tomorrow, but it’s supposed to rain :-(. I have 3 fall-back ideas, but I was really looking forward to doing something amazing for this one.

I had some ideas and gave them a try…I’m not sure they all fit the topic. Opinions?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbee/6919380047/in/photostream Jealousy

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbee/6919379977/in/photostream/ Fear

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbee/6773262862/in/photostream/ Fear of what’s to come

I think they all fit, but the middle one may be too dark to be effective.

I’m out of state right now but I got two done before leaving. I frickin’ love this theme and will probably get a 3rd from the archives. The two I’ve done are processed pretty hard but I think they fall within our guidelines. I have some ideas and might shoot another theme-specific shot tomorrow.

QueenBee – I agree with Yugoboy that ‘Fear’ is too dark. On my laptop, I couldn’t really tell what was going on. Maybe you just need to tweak it a bit brighter?

I can do that. Thanks folks. It always seems to look better in photoshop and then when posted it looks different. I’m not knowledgeable enough to calibrate monitors, etc. 😛

Yeah, I have that problem if I take high ISO shots and forget to use noise reduction in software with them. They always look good in the editor without NR but on the web they look like crap.

The way I deal with it is to open your browser and just drag and drop the image into it. This is a quick and dirty way to see how it will be rendered to the web when you are done.

Gah, here I thought I was going to have a hard time coming up with 3 good shots, now I’m having a hard time picking my final 3 out of the 19 I uploaded. I’ve got my first two, and the last will probably come from one of these:

https://picasaweb.google.com/102637182371352471338/PhotographyRestricted?authkey=Gv1sRgCNK31Z2NluqRBw#5711937217550172450
https://picasaweb.google.com/102637182371352471338/PhotographyRestricted?authkey=Gv1sRgCNK31Z2NluqRBw#5708846098852583410
https://picasaweb.google.com/102637182371352471338/PhotographyRestricted?authkey=Gv1sRgCNK31Z2NluqRBw#5708846277033454930

Full album:
https://picasaweb.google.com/102637182371352471338/PhotographyRestricted?authkey=Gv1sRgCNK31Z2NluqRBw#5708846277033454930

#3 and #14 are the current picks.

I like the first one the best of those three. Actually the whole album is good.

I concur.

Hmmmm. I think I’m a little off-theme – and no chance to fixx0r it.