The bust of a Roman in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Handheld, Z 7ii with 24-70/2.8. The spotlighting is typical for a museum; the room is generally dark and very warmly lit with spotlights. The room is also busily filled with distractors. f/2.8 offered some separation from the background, and the plaque seems to have just enough presence to establish "museum" and depth of field. The image is cropped to eliminate junk on the left and to put the eye and facial plane in the vicinity of the top left third. The background and pedestal have been burned and I've healed out some evidence of the floorboards and a corner on the right. Since this image lives or dies by the face with its modeling and texture, it has had its shadows lifted a bit, and I painted a little clarity on the striking hair. The b/w conversion in Capture One strips out the orangy low light cast, leaving a more pleasant (to my eye) set of tonal gradients. The suppression of the patination on the bronze makes the really interesting texture of the skin of the bust come out.
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