127 nails, lots of time, unlimited stupidity. And a brandnew 50mm lens :D
Inspired by Pedro's 'Disturbed'.
For the lighting I used a variation of technique I recently learned from Keith Maniac. It's a single halogen lamp diffused by very thin paper.
Thanks to my sister Denise for helping me somewhat with the 'makeup'. I used the double-sided sticky pads you can use to put photographs into an album. They were too big and had to be cut, hence some are still visible.
Converted from RAW with Canon DPP.
Post Processing with PSP9:
-HSL colourize (orange)
-Curves
-Resize
-USM
-Add borders
I'm looking forward to the comments :)
Post challenge: W00t! It seems the 50mm are real phobia lenses, all 3 ribboners used one.
Originally posted by rjhawkin:
How long before you had 'bits' falling off? None fell off. The pads are really sticky. In fact, removing them hurt a lot and a bit of skin came off. Ouch.
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You gave me some really great comments. I want to thank you for that. I saw this one in your portfolio. It's an amazing shot and such a great idea! Added to favorites.
Gloda - great work - worth all the effort. Neat light trick - I'll keep that in mind. I love the "photography comment" as it lets us into how these neat photos were taken and where the inspiration stems from. Thanks for taking the time to explain it.
what did you stick them on with? I tried to do something like this with thumbtacks for a challenge a while back and ended up giving up. this turned out great. new it would ribbon the second i saw it.
Congratulations… this is a wonderful shot. I think the positioning and posing are perfect. The interesting composition part to me is the fact that the all the nails provide leading lines strait to the subject as well as being part of the subject. Only thing I might change is a tighter trim on some of the adhesives. Well done… well deserved ribbon.
This is so very well done - great use of the challenge and your imagination. I don't like that you can see a bit of the white beneath the tacks but they look so evil... I let it slide. :)
Wonderful photo! Very well thought. i love photos that steer clear of casual and literal interpretations. Must have taken some trouble to make up the model as well. Well done!
the patience needed to stick those nails onto a face gets my vote... oh and the look in the eye added with the nice dark lighting of course... well done.
Really emotive! I love the eyes, the really-really don't touch me looking. Black and white works well. Just a small issue, that the glueing is visible with a few of the screws. Hovewer, this shot touched me. Merry Christmas and good luck! (10)
I'm interested in the lighting used... it is hard light from a single source correct? And also u have my props for the shear amount of time (and discomfort) this must have caused you.
Definitely very creative. One of my personal favourites out of all the 100+ pictures for this challenge. I gave you an 8 though. It's not easy to bring fear out through the eyes. To me the look gives more of a surprised vibe rather than fear. So I took half a point off there. Another half off for seeing the cellar tape sticking out of the pins/nails. The one point was taken off because of not entirely showing the fear. As in if you did the same for the body, sticking more pins/nails on the neck and shoulder, I'd certainly given it a 9 or more. Great job though. The composition itself is spot on. I'm hoping you get a ribbon, when I say that I hope I didn't just jinx you.
Really nice! Almost like hellraiser. I like the emotion on the face, My only flaw I see is the sticky tape off some of the nails on the forehead, easly fixed had this been advanced editing!
Your effort is admirable, the expression very good, composition great, lighting dramatic, stark b&w treatment very suitable - can you tell I like this a lot?
On top of all that, you even read and followed the challenge description. Well done!!!! 10
Excellent and a really great way to illustrate the phobia. 9 Would have been a 10 if I could not see the sticky pads behind the nails, as they just take the edge off it, but only slightly. Great photo and hopefully a ribbon.
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