Well again, just putting this in the challenge cause I felt I would be letting my WPL teammates down, am supposed to be on a break from DPC but decided to postpone it till the WPL is over. My Circles score at the time of this submission is 5.7 and I doubt this will do better but I figured I at least had to try, besides I like the shot and I know all three guys very well so to me personally this shot is hilarious :)
These guys are from the left Davíð, Birkir and Daði. I was doing a promo shoot of them for their website today anyway and just asked them if they wanted to bring dresses so I could snap a handful of shots for this challenge in the meantime and thought they would hopefully make for cool promo shots for them as well. They have a good sense of humour so they said sure, no problem. Kindof regret not having a girl in guys cloting behind the bar as a bartender but maybe I´ll just do that for "Crossdress II".
Lit with two lights, one big sofbox on my right and a smaller one on my left, directly behind Davíð actually. Wish I owned more than two lights as I would have wanted at least one more from behind them to light up the place some more. I am at least not at all very happy with the lighting as the dresses blend in too much with the counter.
Post processing more or less just raw conversion, curves, tweaked hue/sat and cropped of course, a lot of shadow hightlights adjustmens too with different settings on tonal width and amount to brighten the darkest spots. Sharpened after resizing. Shot is actually useless for anything other than web resolution as it´s slighty out of focus.
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It was certainly my favorite. I love this because it seems to be more innocent, and harmless, and funny.
Some of the others just irritated me, and quite frankly made me want to vomit. No offense to any of the others, the challenge was difficult in that manner, and I made my mistakes just the same @ 47%.
The way you coordinated, executed, and held the grace is awesome. Something of creativiy for sure it shows amazing artistic abilities, and awesome talent.
Ég verð að segja að fátt hefur komið jafn mikið á óvart og þessi mynd, til hamingju með þetta kall, ótrúlegur árangur, það er eins og það sé alveg sama hvað þér gengur illa og hefur litla trú á sjálfum þér, þá skorar allt vel hérna hjá þér. Þú ert með þetta allt á tæru !
En nú er stóra spurningin, komumst við áfram í wpl út á þessa snilld ?
My first time voting for a DPC challenge (thought I'd start with a challenge that had fewer entries) and I'm casting my first vote for you! I don't have a good sense yet of what the numbers mean, but this is perhaps my favorite in the challenge so I'll give it a high number.
I love the ambiguity in this photo. The guys are clearly masculine and their looks are fierce and natural. It feels unposed, though I assume they dressed for the photo and this is not their usual garb.
The skin tones look great against all the black, and there is a sepia-like quality that is not forced.
Enough blathering, I'd better learn to shorten my comments. Best of luck!
-- Larry in NYC ("citymars")
I really like the clarity in this photo. Its very technically sound. The tones, mood, and impressions are fantastic. The background seems off-balance, and a little distracting, but not to the extent of subtracting a point. Matter of fact, I'm here to bump up. Very nice. GL.
Nice shot and love the premise, but would have like to see a bit more contrast between the clothing and the bar. It's hard to see what they are wearing.
wow! I think you nailed this shot. compostion is great, focus is good, light direction is nice. I love the expression. your loseing detail in the blacks on the left and the bottom right though. and the color of their skin seems off. other then that I love it. good job, 9!
Great setup and focus! I love the expressions. I have to admit, the red sock does grab my attention just a bit too much compared to all of the other tones of the picture (though I like the green of the flower). Overall, very nice shot.. it makes me laugh.
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