I put this shot together courtesy of Dave Hood on location at his Dark Horse Tavern. Special thanks to model and rocker Jason Jones, who always gets lottsa respect from me. Used two direct floods, one behind the model, and another on his face. His face was overexposed to convey the stark reality of a comic dying on the vine.
Converted to sepia tone using iPhoto, then used Photoshop to sharpen, crop, and add the border.
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great job bill. i'm no photographer, but i love the shot. smoke looks great and jones definitly looks like a comic at a loss for words in this shot. see you at the gym.
I agree with the comments that the face (and chicken) were too overexposed. I wanted harsh lighting on those items, but it was a bit too much. On the other hand, I don't agree with comments that it didn't meet the challenge. It's no sleeping baby or snowy landscape, but I think the scene was a great expression of uncomfortable silence!
Love this shot. The tonality is awesome. Your slightly blown out in a couple of spots, but not horribly so. Only thing is it doesn't feel silent to me.
TC
very nice photo, the billowing smoke is a very nice touch, at first I didn't see the silence, it was a bit hard to tell that he's looking away from the audience for vindication, tough crowd? lol 8.
Graet capture. You seem to have absolutely got it from the right angel; the smoke and you are capturing the audience without completly burning out the spotlit face of the performer.
This relies too much on the title to get it into the challenge objective. Technique: a little over exposed on the skin highlights. Capturing the smoke curls works very well for this picture.
Excellent! Good choice of sepia; great capture of tthe smoke. Too me a while to "get" the rubber chicken (a bit blown out). Subject's expression is good. I think you did a good job with lighing, too.
A smoking comedian holding a dead chicken definitely has some potential, but the small and uninteresting audience kind of kills it, and also the way the man's face is lit.
This one made me laugh. Thanks for adding some humour to this challenge. It's very well shot - just incredible lighting. An excellent capture and I love the sepia-type tone.
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