I know some people probably won't like the high contrast, but I think that is what makes the shot. The effect came mostly from post processing. Shot in RAW, overexposed the shot 0.7 stops, then used levels to bleach out my skin and the background. Dodged my skin to smooth it out (b/c of the huge levels adjustment), and sharpened. I was inspired to recreate a previous self portrait I did almost a year ago.
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I love the use of high key. It really works. My only critisim would be that I would have liked the lips a bit darker. I think it would have balanced the image. What I mean by this is that you have dark side burns, eye browns retina and gotie. A dark area around the mouth woiuld have pulled the image into a more 3 dimentional plane. Despit this still one of my favs. 9
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