Isaac's chin and nose illuminated by a spinning "Inspector Gadget" toy with a couple of tiny red LED's on the wheel.
Handheld shot, cropped and resized, very slight overall tone adjustment (curve).
Created a selection around the light swirls using the Magic Wand tool, and then a variety of curves and the tone/contrast adjustment to make the swrils visible but not so bright or grainy as to detract too much from the portrait itself.
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I like the tone and mood of this image. It makes me think and wonder. It is a very dark image, and i know it is meant to be... perhaps i would say it was well exposed, i guess you don't have a bright light source.. and it looks like on the boy's chin the red is almost blasting out,... so perhaps it is fine... I think the cropping of the image was done well.
Perhaps The picture is too contrasty. Perhaps somelight should be given to the entire image... and let it still be dark, but not SO dark. an image can be low key with good detail. This makes an image more interesting generally than an image that is too dark to see anything.
overall, good, just play with the lighting a bit more.
-from the critique club-
and remember, these are just my thoughts.
Thank you, and all the commenters. I knew the degree of darkness would be a problem for some people (even to see), but I really wanted it dark for a variety of reasons, including that a lot of people would recognize my model if I showed any more.
My light source was quite faint -- I'm actually surprised I got any kind of decent image out of my P+S camera. I "punched up" the swirly lights a little, but the rest is a pretty straight photo. I meant to post a photo of the set-up (with the lights on) but forgot -- I'll try and do that this weekend.
I like the tone and mood of this image. It makes me think and wonder. It is a very dark image, and i know it is meant to be... perhaps i would say it was well exposed, i guess you don't have a bright light source.. and it looks like on the boy's chin the red is almost blasting out,... so perhaps it is fine... I think the cropping of the image was done well.
Perhaps The picture is too contrasty. Perhaps somelight should be given to the entire image... and let it still be dark, but not SO dark. an image can be low key with good detail. This makes an image more interesting generally than an image that is too dark to see anything.
overall, good, just play with the lighting a bit more.
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