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Brightboy

published by eku on Sun, 11/25/2007 - 12:08pm

Shot yesterday, at Lutakko.

#1

#2

#3

#4

Rest can be found here.
I'm somewhat pleased with the results. Many of those photos looked shit in color. But "pushing" step or two, and desaturation really does wonders. #1 and #2 have a bit bad framing, but can't do much afterwards...

L

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Comment & Critique - Live, Backstage, Promo, etc

Submitted by Kalle Björklid on Mon, 11/26/2007 - 5:01am.

#2 is excellent!! I guess it's a bit challenging also.

EDIT: I'll elaborate. I like the tension in the picture, as well that it has depth in the form of two different levels. The tension arises from the fact that the guy's guitar is cut off, and another (well, I think its a bass actually) is on the top of the frame. It is a creative shot, not just reproducing what is readily there.

Another interesting version might be to completely leave out the (lower) guitar and the light part of his sleeve. You can still clearly see from the concentrated expression and the posture that he's playing a guitar. I don't mean that this would be necessarily a better approach, but something interesting to think about, at least.

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Submitted by Rene Damkot on Wed, 11/28/2007 - 5:16am.

I like #2 as well.
A bit more space on the bottom and a bit less on the top might have been nice though (I do mean a *bit*)

I also like #3, but would have cropped off the bit of light on the right border.

Not sure about the tone of #1 and 3. Bit greenish.

Submitted by DwightMcCann on Wed, 11/28/2007 - 10:36am.

Somebody in here has got to shoot in good light or I'll have to post The Chordettes! I initialy liked the B&W/sepia/platinum/selenium grainy look but that seems to be about 95% of everything posted ... is it just the bad lighting or has this become the nouveau cuisine? Anyway, first three are interesting with #3 being excellent. The drummer shot seems anticlimactic.

Dwight McCann

Submitted by eku on Wed, 11/28/2007 - 11:08am.

I blame the bad lightning. I had to "push" these almost two steps to get the results you see. Two steps more light at ISO1600 will produce a lot noise, which doesn't look good in color.

L

Submitted by DwightMcCann on Wed, 11/28/2007 - 12:13pm.

Didn't mean to pick on you ... I understand about bad lighting ... the problem seems endemic with everyone posting very grainy and often B&W images. I suppose it may be a green response to global warming. ;)

Dwight McCann

Submitted by Rene Damkot on Thu, 11/29/2007 - 7:08pm.

don't mind the noise one bit ;)

Submitted by Tsukasa on Thu, 11/29/2007 - 7:14pm.

Well I do not into grain stuff yet :) perhaps just do not have much time to understand, how in principle people doing these film-like shots. Though I do believe that the powerful captures do not necesserily need too much photoshop alterations. They are OK to be published as they are after adjusting the image itself. Though, I like BW sometimes as some pictures benefit from BW (ca.
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