Helshoogte Pass, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa.
Coordinates:
33°55'21.00"S, 18°54'30.00"E
This is prperold being menacing while brandishing a knife. SB-26 and SB-600 with CTO gels hand fired from about 45 degrees to the left and right respectively, the subject moved away and the SB-600 was fired again. Taken at the 18mm end of the lens.
Lightroom RAW conversion. Noise Reduction, darkened sky and figure with curves adjustment layer, brightened distant hill and blade with curves adjustment layer, resize, sharpen and save for web.
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Place: 17 out of 82 Avg (all users): 6.2536 Avg (commenters): 8.2667 Avg (participants): 6.4103 Avg (non-participants): 6.1919 Views since voting: 1395 Views during voting: 305 Votes: 138 Comments: 19 Favorites: 3 (view)
Initial impression: Menacing b/w of the hills and sky behind, which only seems to play up the lack of similar varied tones in the Phantom. Had to look for the blade.
Technical: Great light, good use of thirds, nice dof...though a 30-second exposure seems a little long! I think that a lesser exposure, esp with the phantom in the pic, would have resulted in a more multi-tonal and powerful image.
Aristic: Frankly I thought Phantom looked cut-and-paste and posed. However you placed in the top 20 in this challenge, so can't argue with that :-)
Overall: Great concept, I just feel execution could have been a little stronger to make the phantom more menacing. good work!
Love how your guy looks like an opaque overlay. Making him blend in like that adds to the mystery of the scene. I think you could have gotten away without keeping all the extra sky on top. Clever shot.
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