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The king
Hiking in this beautiful region is like a present.Also standing at high elevation and looking to the king of Austria.The first snow the changing coloursand all the combination with the weather cond
Oasis
One of my favorite waterfalls I've photographed in recent years. deep in the backcountry of Vancouver Island lies this pristine oasis.
YOUNG MALE MALAYAN TIGER
These are a highly endangered species, and the rescue center has this young male tiger, which they hope will breed with their already existing female Malayan tiger.
BLACK LEOPARD
A new arrival at the rescue center. She was very friendly and very flirty, rolling about on her back and meowing, then staring at you as if she might be hungry. A magnificently beautiful animal
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Not bad, but your key light is too far above his head. Feels as if you're lighting the top of his head more than his face. Big indication are the catch lights that are non-existent due to the light's position. Hope this makes sense! Keep creating
Great advice, I'll play with that next time!
Pretty good overall. As Derek already mentioned - key is too high and you are lacking catchlights. Lack of catchlights here gives a kinda creepy vibe IMO.
I think this is an instance of where having high broad lighting is not really working. If your strobe has a modelling light use it too see where the shadows fall. The way in which his far away eye has a half glint gives the image an odd really creepy look. I think one thing photographers all have to remember is, as humans one of our hardwired skills is reading facial expressions.......what does his facial expression say to you? For me the expression generates fairly negative vibes, not an image I would use. What did the client think?
This is the image the client picked from the series that was taken. He said he and his family like this the best and that it looked the most like him. Really surprised people are saying there's anything "creepy" about this image...
EDIT: I've seen you say before that "we're all hardwired to read facial expressions" but, interestingly, we apparently all read them differently...