This was a fun shot to do. My wife mixed up the fake blood with some corn startch and food coloring. Then she tool a candle and melted the wax and applied it to her arm to make a wound. She crawled in the bath tub and I set the camera up. We then started pouring the mixture in the wound and let it start running down her hand. When I got ready to shot the image she applied more of the mixture and I fired off about ten shots.
Lighting was the natural bathroom light, and a flourescent desk lamp positioned on the sink.
Post processing was basic. Sorry for the pun. Cropped, neat image, levels, shadow highlight, desaturated all of the channels -100 except for red that was desaturated by aout -60. Resized, smart sharpened, added the border and saved for web.
My wife doesn't think this image will do well because the subject is taboo. I still wanted to do the shot because I think this is the most extreme the emoition of despair can get to.
POST VOTING:
Well, this score was all over the place this week. I have to say when I saw the five ones at first I was pissed and ready to fire off about it, but instead I will sit here and laugh.
A One huh? What makes a photo deserve a one? Did I not meet the challenge? No, I think I met the challenge pretty good. Was the photo blurry? No, int was in focus where I wanted it. Was it too dark and noisey? No, can't say that either. I guess it just comes down to some people don't want to see images like this. That is fine, i accept that and I said before the challenge that my wife advised against it.
In the end, if the image hits too close to home and that is why you hammered my score, then I apologize to have cause any undue stress, heartache, or otherwise ill feelings.
Thanks for all of the votes and compliments. Yes I am even thanking for all of the sub 5 votes to include the 1's. Most people wouldn't do so, but in the end I walk away with a learning experience and that far outweighs any kind of ribbon I could ever win.
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Place: 26 out of 110 Avg (all users): 6.0068 Avg (commenters): 7.3077 Avg (participants): 5.8250 Avg (non-participants): 6.0354 Views since voting: 1673 Views during voting: 571 Votes: 294 Comments: 34 Favorites: 1 (view)
it doesn't look credible.. in the first place, suicides like these are by cutting an artery on the wrist that is a little higher than what is shown in the photo, next when the artery is cut, the blood gushes out in full force,, doesn't trickle as appears in the photo, and is fresh blood of bright color, and if the photo is supposed to have been some time after the death .. then the blood would look caked and not like chocolate sauce .. and the hand would appear pale and lifeless.. not fresh and full of blood as appears there .. no sir, you cant do this kind of photo composing, which is providential !
hmmm i gave this a 6 during voting but i think its mostly because it looks like it was neat image'd to death. or whatever your tool of choice is (noise ninja/kodak air brush) but the drop is perfect and as a not pick i think i would have had the wrist turned up slightly more so we could not so plainly see that there is no cut mark, not that i would expect you to go to such lengths for your art! ;)
ouch! packs a wallop of emotion-"in your face". Very strong. great image, very well done. I didn't vote in this challenge, so didn't see it until the thumbnail was flitting about in browse section; Ben this is very different for you! WOW! If you want to talk about scoring, look at the avg score for commenters! great! my guess is, this image was a bit raw for a lot of folks, definitely Extreme emotion!!
This is easy, I gave it a 6 yet I can see that most likely the low scores came from its subject matter. So people are just down right offended. No surprise here to me.
I love the idea, and concept, blood streaks are nice, not enough of a visible gap for the wound, and it seems way way to smooth. Personally I would have liked a grittier effect with textures instead of being over smoothed as they appear.
Thats a bloody great picture, very nice clarity, the arm almost looks rubber, it has a shine to it, or something odd, good work anyway, I couldn't have pulled this off. 8.
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