I am not a big gun person so I will guess that is a shell casing supposedly flying out of the side of the gun?
Nicely lit for the soldier's head and helmut but the lighting on the hands make them stick out a bit too much. I like that you tried to do something different.
That being said, it is not going to pass as a studio portrait because even if I ignore what looks like trees behind him, we do not fire guns in the studio....so even though it is DNMC I will still score it a 5 because there is some obvious lighting going on here which took some work to set up. :) |