Painted kids. Used black paint to completely cover ears, necks and all but the center of the face. Painted centers of faces with 2 coats of acrylic paint. Covered all exposed hair and clothing with black cloaks and shot on black background.
PS steps: 1. Levels to make black, BLACK. 2. bump contrast a touch. 3. Cloned to take out dust and lint spots. 4. Minor, general clean-up. 5. crop and save for web.
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Very nicely executed! However I think I woulda picked another color than red for the right hand face. It's very hard to get good detail in certain shades of red to pop out. You got great depth in the blue face, but the red face looks flat...
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You've obviously put in alot of effort into this shot. The makeup, expression and technical qualities of the faces is very strong. The composition doesn't work well, however, as the "masks" are too far apart with too much negative space. This shot would have worked much better if the framed were filled with the masks. 4
First Impression: Wow those eyes are green! I think the bottom right mask could have carried the image by itself.
Was I fooled? Nice deep black background, Yes!
Only thing I might change is putting the faces closer together and arrange like they are hanging on the wall. Also exagerate the expressions more (comedy / tragedy). Nice idea and pretty well done though.
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