OK just wanted to have some fun with the challenge lol Its a self portrait of me. OK maybe its weird that its a girl with a condom, but does it matter who supplies them really? Anyway its there to get the message accross.
The photo isn't really what I wanted it to be. I actually wanted to use fishnets but they were all out at Target and Kmart only had the pantyhoes and not the stocking types. And it is a public holiday so everything else was closed.
The angle isn't right either, and I know people will tell me off for it, but it is very hard trying to take photos of your own thigh. I did use a remote, but just trying to line the shot up, as well as trying to control the shutter and aperture is a bit of a nightmare.
Anyway all I really did was destat everything but condomn, I used the smuge tool to make the leg a bit more soft looking, curve to darken the bg and I then used NI. I think thats about it really. Oh I used a little burning too.
I guess it will hit 5.0 or so as the concept is ok, but the execution isn't really right. I tried...
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I totally agree with you M. I was never happy with the crop anyway. I think if i had got it right, I really could have done well with the challenge, but I think I did alright still :) My average is only 5.2 or something so 5.6 is pretty good.
The only thing I can see now that I would have changed is to crop this in portrait orientation to enhance the length of your leg, instead of cropping horizontal and emphasizing the width. :)
Haha sure, you can never get enough. Not really sure if your blur job is working here, the upper part of the leg (non nylon part) looks like concrete or sth. Else its good
Anyway, this is all well and good, almost looks like a pro product shot, but if I had to make changes I would place the wrapper a bit lower in the frame and exaggerate the negative space above
Excellent lighting, and the selective desat works really well. Wish there were more girls round here with that approach, especially ones with great legs (well, I assume this is one of a matched pair ;) like these :)
Great tonal range and composition. Out of all the people depriving themselves of the "finer" things in life, it's good to see someone who actually wants MORE! Good luck!
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