My niece, home from college, she really doesn't look anything like this and doesn't smoke…Just incase her mom sees this LOL.
I set up a strobe with a snoot behind her frizzed out hair and a strobe to the left/front, heavily diffused. Bummed a cigarette from my neighbor and lit it up for extra effect. It ended up being my favorite part of the shot
PP: Some curves, levels the slightest hint of color to add drama, crop, resize for web and that's it.
I don't know how this photography will score, but we had a blast shooting it!!
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Making her face dark was a creative choice. I tossed the idea around over and over to go lighter or darker. I guess I should have gone lighter. I knew it wouldn't be in the top 20 but I did think it would do better than it did. Oh well, still learning.
Nice composition but the exposure is too dark. I hope you'll shoot this again and play with the exposure a bit. I think You'll have an interesting portrait.
Just a tad bit too dark or not contrasted enough. You lose some detail between the cigarette, her hand, and the hair. At first I thought her hair was smoking, too me a minute to realize that it was the cigarrette.
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