Challenge:Scene It! (Basic Editing III) Camera:Olympus C-5500SZ Location: Living room of my house, Lumby B.C. Date: Aug 28, 2006 Aperture: 2.8 ISO: 100 Shutter: 1/3 second Date Uploaded: Aug 29, 2006
First of all I had to have the cooperation of my parents to pose in this one, and originally dad doesn't have that much hair... so I had to cut up a girls wig to tape to his head, darken his eye brows and mustache with mascarra. Mom's part was fairly easy, I just straightened her hair and took off her glasses.
Set up of the scene, I conveiniently already had a broken door(long story) so I just found the best corner in the house to prop it up against, then I used an old tri light dimmed on dad's face, and a halogen, layed down on a foot stool so it could be angled shining right in my mom's face. Then hung a dark sheet behind my dad to keep the background dark. And after that it was only getting the right facial expressions and in the right light.
Post processing was fairly simple, just cropped, adjusted the contrast, sharpened and then saved for web.
Here's a link to the original scene which I was trying for
//k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/shining.jpg
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pretty good set up. lighting is pretty harsh on the right side. for me both expressions seem off. not crazy enough and not scared enough. extra point for the set up though.
The female model really could have done with looking more scared, the expression just doesn't look terrified, maybe you should have scared her a little properly for effect ;0) Good luck.
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