The Dreamer

[ravenmore]

This is an older photo from my collection but one of my faves. (p.s. that water was freakin' cold....)

[ravenmore]

Hmmm - redid it in black and white for kicks. This image isn't perfect by any means, but something about it I've always liked.

[Greg McCary]

This is very different for sure, but I like it. Looks like a poster for a scary movie or something. I feel the color version is much better and the grain/noise works well too. If you don't mind sharing your post processing work, I would be interested.
Greg

[gahspidy]

The picture does not really do anything for me, or interest me enough to look at it for long, but out of the two I feel the color image looks stronger.

[ravenmore]

It was done on a film camera. The crop was pretty tight which is why its grainy. I really haven't done much to it beyond that.

[ravenmore]

yeah - I don't think I care for the black and white version either.

[Mr Yuck]

Color version is awesome. Creepy, interesting.

The grain works.

the blur of the leaves combined with the unmoving mask is a really cool effect.

[PlantedTao]

I'm not one for color, but the color wins out on this one. The color helps to draw focus on the face, and the blur has added nice interest and movement.
I would have liked to get a bit more focus on the mask and not so much blur, but with the grain your not to bad off.
I really like this idea, I think technically it could be enhanced if reshot...but in the current form it works for me.
Cheers.

[ravenmore]

thanks - it was an early piece and if I was to do it all over again I'd probably do it different(looking at it and imagining I was looking through the viewfinder at it again I have an urge to move to the right a step or two). But for some reason I still really like it and most folks seem to have a strong reaction to it - for better or worse.