My wife's Chanel shoes, which she lovingly lent to me for this shot (under pain of death should anything happen to them).
Since I figured models are going to dominate this challenge, I decided to do something a little different. While shooting the shoes I noticed the colours lent themselves to a "vintage" look, so I went with it.
Did a little cleaning up of dust spots and some minor curves / brightness etc in photoshop, then used the curves and exposure tools in Aperture to get the vintage look. Didn't sharpen at all to maintain the overall feel.
Not sure how this will be received, I'm guessing poorly for being different, and I'll feel bad for letting my team down, but the alternative was to enter something that had no chance of standing out at all and probably would have finished mid pack somewhere.
We'll see.
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Hello from the Critique Club-
I can’t decide what I think of your take on the challenge. I see the relation between your take (advertising) and the world of fashion. Anybody flipping through a fashion mag knows that 95% of the paper is advertising space, so the two are obviously inextricably linked. But is there a delineation? I’m not really sure, I guess that’s for the DNMC worriers to worry over.
You have very successfully created a nice advertising type image, regardless of which users find it to relate to the challenge. I enjoy your subdued approach, and your positioning is very nice and directed. It would have been nice to get the Paris to reflect fully as well, but raising the positioning a bit, but that’s a minor thing. Same thing with maintaining symmetry in the front of the right shoe and the background on the right as well. I’m not really sure what it is, but something about the look of the “antique tone” for lack of a better term makes the pure black portions of the background seem to have a violet tint. I don’t actually think its that color, but the contrast of the two colors fools the eye.
Nice entry, all nitpicks aside.
This is a strong image that I'd expect to see in a magazine. The only issue seems to be the side light on the right shoe (right side of the image) and how it's positioned slightly away from the camera, which make the image look less mirrored. I like the darkness and the textures of this image.
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