I`ve been wanting to do a shot like this for a while, this challenge was a perfect oportunity to shoot it. Thanks to Lalo for possing for me,letting me paint him and borrowed me his flashes :P
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Yay!!! :D:D:D:D Thank you for your nice comments
A couple of outtakes
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Gaby I must thank you for your inspiration. I entered my photo of Sunflowers in a large regional newspaper photo contest here where I live and I won 1st place with it. That was out of a total of 879 entries. :)
I loved your idea so much I decided to copy it with my wife posing as model. I painted the zebra stripe background on a large sheet of hardboard and that was more difficult then I had thought it would be. I found a pattern to copy from on the internet. Then I painted my wife's face. I could not get nice big sunflowers at the florist (only small one's as the season for them has not yet started) so I went to the garden center and found 3 nice big fake one's.
All in all it was a fun project. I hope you like it. I hope you don't mind that I copied your idea. :)
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Glad to see this formidable study walk away with the Blue. The execution with the waldo angled head placement works so fine! Congratulations on your neat accomplishment!
I think you made the right choice for your challenge entry, as this is the best of the three photos, when compared to the outtakes. Excellent job - it's subtle, but the person isn't difficult to find.
woohoo! Congratulations on this most creative shot, Gaby :)
You deserve extra points for the body paint job too. wow. The outtakes are also very fun. I'd wouldn't find it easy picking between the three.
Only nitpick, with this shot, is his hairline being visible near the top right flower.
cool :) I did something kinda like this once, but with spots. Yours turned out much better than mine though. I think its because the flowers are your subject, not the person, and the great contrast in pattern and color on b/w. That and I had to model it myself. Anyway, I really like this. Great job.
I love this! However it looks like the front flower is oof. But I can't tell if it is that or if I'm just getting old and my eyes are giving way (especially with the design in back) :-) Anyway, for creativity and pure genius, you get a 10 from me. Very nicely done and great make-up. 10
The eye closed would have made it harder but I didn't see him right away either. This is very cool and imaginative. I like it alot.... except you had to go and ruin it with flowers... just kidding.
I see images like this on DPC and I realise just how far I have to travel in terms of concepts and delivery of these ideas. Unique in the challenge and I couldnt even guess how you could improve this technically. My only possible comment would be I wonder whether with the eye shut rather than open whether you could have created an even more hidden person. Got a feeling I may well be seeing you on the front page in the next few days
Congratulations on producing such an awesome image
AWESOME...this definitely screams ribbon to me. The composition of the flowers and the face is just wonderful! It makes you want to look at the flower but then its like WOAH...a PERSON there. this must have been very time consuming. FANTASTIC SHOT!
I commend you for your effort, what a tremendous job! 9
The following is by no means criticism, just "thinking out loud" :
I wonder how it would have looked with a shallower DOF? It would hide "Waldo" even more, but perhaps too much? Hmmmmm....
That was kinda scary. I wasn't expecting a face to be there. . . .I think cropping a bit off the left, and some of the sunflowers out would make this a stronger composition, but it works well. I would pick this to be on the front page.
I expected to see a lot more of these kinds of images, but not done this well. Yours is quite good, with the lines of the background playing well over the surface and the flowers breaking them up with a splash of color. I wish the eye wasn't looking at me, but it's such a minor quibble I can't even dock you any points for it. 10.
WOW... incredible shot. When I saw the thumbnail of the photo, i was getting ready to type DNMC in this space, but you totally amazed me here. 10, and I hope you ribbon.
Wow you really went all out on this one. Beautiful shot, with great colors and detail. Composition is right on the money and the painting is out of this world. Very creative and should be a no doubt top 10. Great work.
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