Last minute entry, taken literally 11:59pm, fortunately there is a 4 hour time zone difference so I had at least a little time selecting the shot and editing. However, I have a strong feeling I am going to see something about this shot or another shot in the morning wich I wish I had done in editing or chosen another photo, I think this editing needed me to sleep on it, if you catch my drift.
The guy in the photo is Darri, he´s a pretty cool guy and was more than up for strolling around with me in a creepy cemetary around midnight. The shot is lit with two flashes from a 580ex Canon speedlight. First he was up in the tree and I shot one burst of the flash, then he jumped down and crouched on the ground and I fired the flash again. I know this isn´t the best result with double exposures like this but it´s a first time for me and I learned something new during this photoshoot so I don´t really care how this will score, have a feeling I am going to wake up to a 5.2 with this shot, I like this shot though but don´t expect many of you to do the same. It was also a problem that it was too bright outside even though we were out around midnight, am going to do this again in the winter and see how that plays out.
Incidentally, the cross in the upper left corner is the same one as in this photo but taken from the other side.
Editing was not so much as much as you would think though, wanted a similar look as my april free study photo. First, a little dodge/burn to make out the "double Darri´s" better, curves for both the green/blue coloring and contrast. Added vignetting and finally a little clone to take out a flower and patch up a small hole in the foliage above. Also used the sponge tool set to desaturate to take out a little bit of the saturation around the crouching Darri.
Darri was also my "portrait a week" for week 22 that we shot in the same photosession, check out the link below if you want to see it.
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The first time I saw this, I didn't see the guy in the tree. I come back, and yes, I'm creeped out, lol! I liked the processing a lot, which is why I came back. I was just so drawn to the guy on the ground. Anyway, nicely done.
Interesting idea, but the second image is kind of lost in the trees due to the heavy processing, though perhaps that's how you intended it to give it a more ghostly feel. Might have been better if the subject wasn't posing for or looking at the camera.
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