Taken hand-held using manual settings with an off-camera Nikon SB24 flash bounced into a brolly.
Post processing in the gimp was crop, scale, small contrast increase, USM, full desaturation of red, partial desaturation of other channels, and then add a border.
Yes I'm using a Nikon flash with my Canon.. It was cheap, and has more manual settings than you can shake a stick at when used in it's non-ttl modes.
Way outside my comfort zone on this one, I originally did a macro of a paperclip, and then the idea of a zip or buttons came up. Then my wife agreed to this, and given she normally wont let me point a camera at her at all, I thought it was too much of a good thing to pass up! :-).
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i'm not really sure what i like so much about this one. i think it's the sheen on the delicate bow peeking through the industrial denim. i like the composition, too. 9
I like the angle created by the zipper and the mood set here. I think this would look better as a black and white shot though, rather than the blue/black/white. Reason being, the colors don't contribute to the intimate nature of this shot. A great idea though.
Abstractly, this image has a great composition and use of color. On a more gut level, the grey skin is disturbing. Without background images as a color reference, the effect is that the skin really is grey. Still, I'll give it an 8
Gorgeous. The tilted composition works well here, with additional interesting angles provided by the V the zipper creates. Is that natural skin color? It looks like it's been selectively desaturated. Or has it been powdered or something? 9.
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