How you guys enjoy your Halloween ?
It's been really busy day for me in Studio. Here is first Halloween Headshot with amazing Kirsty Hannah, Great MUA and fantastic personality!
Halloween Headshot
How you guys enjoy your Halloween ?
It's been really busy day for me in Studio. Here is first Halloween Headshot with amazing Kirsty Hannah, Great MUA and fantastic personality!
Would a slightly more dramatic, theatrical approach to the horror style subject not have worked better. A medium soft light mounted low, glowing from below perhaps with some crazy colour added to the image in some way even if only a spot effect or a kicker to add a rim of light or a slash of colour across the background, you choose but the darkness is surely just a good basic starting point, green, cyan, blood-red, magenta, dark blue, acid yellow and the list goes on. What about smoke? Smoke bombs can be bought from paintball supples companies for little money. Yes, they can be un controlable to a point but not totally. Not sure if they are safe indoors, need to check this before getting all carried away an dburning the studio down. What about outdoors; in a wood or under a bridge or on a demolition site or abandoned industrial setting, the list goes on, like I do. Sorry.
Thanks for comment Ian, there is always more options to go. Depending of time, situation and your style.However, I'm really minimalistic in terms of extra effects like smokes or colors. I like to keep things clear simple bold and classic ;)
The general style is quite fine I was just thinking this is not a general portrait. It is a very stongly Halloween shot done of a sitter who has gone all-out to dress the part. It is not an every day sitting so I feel a special approach would have worked better for this sitter on this occassion. In the end, it is about her, not you the photographer, although I accept that Photographers often feel that clients come because of what the photographer does, his look or style. This is not alway the case. Often they come becasue they don't differentiate between prhotographers, imagining we are all the same, more or less. The photographer needs to think about the client's desires and expectations before every shoot. Just lowering the light and perhaps moving it to the left, a bit, so the hair casts a bit of a shaddow, not black just a touch of mystery, over a little of the girl's face, leaving a crescent of her face and her left eye fully lit, would have been minimalistic, clear and simple, not classic but this was Halloween, as discussed.
Anyway that's how I see it. All the best.
Thanks for the thumbs up. I am glad you have taken my matter of fact critique as it was intended, rather than being irritated or annoyed by my not very subtle language.
If I were you and had her contact details, I'd ask her back for a free session and really get creative with her Halloween look. You might just get something outstanding, and try the things you don't do normally, pushing ones-self is how we get a buzz, and how we learn, and how we develop a portfolio of skills as well as a porfolio of varied images that together show us to be more flexible, client sensible, creative and just plain interesting.
If you do, make sure you plan ahead so you have the locations, smoke bombs and colur gels you don't use to hand and ready for a wild night of scary photography. Then, let us have a look.
Trick or treat?