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Photo Forum / General Photo Topics / General Topics / November 2006Portrait: Alone
Hi all together, i just want to show you a new portrait made by me. Pleas let me know your opinion by looking at this photo. What do you like and what will be able to improve? www.weeser.de/tr.jpg Best regards form Germany Björn Hi Björn, > What do you like and what will be able to improve? The person's left eye is almost dead in the middle of the photo. This IMO creates a very disturbing effect as the eye grabs almost all the attention and the photo is struck out of balance. I would have cropped the image so that you had more room on the left side, so the person looks "into" the photo. But that eye in the middle just looks disturbing to me<g> Reminds me of a book that my mother had (never read it) that was called "The third eye"<bg> Best regards, Arnor Baldvinsson, San Antonio, Texas >> What do you like and what will be able to improve? >> www.weeser.de/tr.jpg [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > disturbing to me<g> Reminds me of a book that my mother had (never > read it) that was called "The third eye"<bg> The shadow on that eye is a bit disturbing too, although given the title, I guess that was the intent. Hi Arnor and Paul, thank you for your comments so far. You are right. As I look again at this photo, I'm thinking the same way. The eye in the dark unbalanced the photo a little bit, but I don't think that this is so bad. That the girl doesn't look directly into the photo is deliberately, cause she is "alone" and she doesn't have a thing in the photo that give her a reason to look at. Do you think that this eye disturb that picture? Best regard Björn And I'm sorry for my English but talking about such specified things bring me to the end of my school-english ;) Pleas feel free to correct me if my language is too horrible ;) See also my homepage www.weeser.de for more photos if you want to see. Arnor schrieb: > Hi Björn, > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Arnor Baldvinsson, > San Antonio, Texas Hi Björn, > Do you think that this eye disturb that picture? It does simply because it is so dead center. I measured it and the center of the photo is at the bottom of the left iris (http://www.itakefotos.com/stuff/alone.jpg) I'm also not sure that the photo conveys the idea of loneliness. To me it looks more like intense - on the edge. My wife also noticed the shiny lips which grab attention even if it's only a few pixels. > And I'm sorry for my English but talking about such specified things > bring me to the end of my school-english ;) Pleas feel free to correct > me if my language is too horrible ;) Not bad at all, but then again English is my third language<g> Best regards, Arnor Baldvinsson San Antonio, Texas >Do you think that this eye disturb that picture? Do *not* do *anything* that changes the distraction that eye causes! It rivets the center of attention on it... and makes it hard to look at the rest of the picture! With an interesting result. Viewers will necessarily have to repeatedly make an effort to look at the entire image... and when finished they are going *feel* like their attention was riveted on that image. Five minutes later they may not remember why, but looking at an image that engaging is going to be remembered. The only problem I can see is that I rather dislike reflections from people lips, teeth, foreheads, etc. You could do a little to reduce or totally eliminate the reflections off the girls lips and I think it would be an improvement. Other places are all at least within reason, though you might want to try actually brightening up the highlight reflection in each eye a little to see what it does. Incidentally, I think the close cropping is probably a great part of what causes the eye to be so effective, and wouldn't change that either.  SignatureFloyd L. Davidson <http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson> Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@apaflo.com Bjorn, first, I am an avid amatuer, not a professional. That said, it appears that the shot was taken too close to the subject causing some distortion. Note that the left eye is considerable larger than the right and even the left side of the lips look distorted vs the right side. You may have intended this, but if not, taking the picture farther from the subject will resolve the distortion. You can use a greater focal length lens or take it using the same lens but farther away and crop the picture to get the subject to still fill the photo. On Nov 29, 9:41 am, Björn Weeser <nospam-bjoern.wee...@online.de> wrote: > Hi all together, > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Björn Bjorn The feeling of alone may have more impact if eyes were cast slightly down and not quite so straight ahead. The gleam to the bottom lip could be removed. I think you may also play with two light sources (Maybe a back light as well as the top right) to create the lonely feeling. My eye wanted to go to the nose (Brightest area) rather than the eye. Just a opinion hTr Hi all together, i just want to show you a new portrait made by me. Pleas let me know your opinion by looking at this photo. What do you like and what will be able to improve? www.weeser.de/tr.jpg Best regards form Germany Björn > i just want to show you a new portrait made by me. > Pleas let me know your opinion by looking at this photo. > What do you like and what will be able to improve? Uh...learn about lighting and posing? |
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