A retake of one of my very first challenge entries, with the benefit of two years of DPC experience...
I sprayed my patient model with water and covered the pepper with rubber cement, then set it on fire. The background is black cloth, and I've got a brolly box on the right side of the foreground and a monolight behind her to the left. There's also a reflector directly behind her.
Processing: Coverted from RAW, levels, USM, cloned out a few specks, spot saturation and dodge & burn adjustments, colorized her face a little toward the red side.
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No offence to the blue ribbon winner, but putting the 2 shots side to side, how can the winning photo emphasize heat by using a neutral white background while this one with a much more powerful representation comes in 16th ??? :-\
In my eyes this says " Heat " to me so much more.
Great photo and nicely done !
Wonderful depiction of heat! If I'm right you get to cross 3 goals off your list? The 'perspiration' turns a super shot into fantastic one! My only niggle (if I'm allowed to nit pick) is that the fork is just a little too close to the end of the image. Good luck in the challenge, for me there is a ribbon of a certain colour waiting for you (bumping up 2).
Edited to say I (now) think I was wrong about whose challenge entry this was so guess the goals comment is wrong.
LOL...great idea. Well excecuted, facial expression, sweat, flame, even slight redness of the face (not sure if it was intensional, never the less). LOL
my only suggestion would be to have had a bite taken out of the pepper so she had a reason to be sweating and looking like that.
Otherwise it's a good attempt at the challenge.
edit...maybe there is some pepper missing at the end of it, but it isn't very clear.
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