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    Senior Member draymorton's Avatar
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    Gaga

    LOL

    Trying out an idea I may revisit.


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    Re: Gaga

    Is this for real? are you doing her press pics now? lol

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    Re: Gaga

    Stay with this one Dray. Weird and wonderful.
    Brilliant geometry everywhere from the jawbones to shades to shoulders to background. The architecture of the sunglasses and the panelling behind is great.
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    Re: Gaga

    Great work, great tribute to symmetry. I must ask, exactly how long did the necklace take you to set up? Is that as-shot necklace or edit? I'm curious what the gray is on the left and right, I find it distractin, why not a tone like the rest of the wall?.

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    Re: Gaga

    Wow! How did you do this?

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    Re: Gaga

    Oh I love it!
    Newbie to the boards
    Newbie to using a DSLR
    Want to branch out and do freelance work
    Advice, critique and editing of my photos is welcome!

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    Re: Gaga

    This is pretty cool, Dray. I love the symetry as others mentioned and the high key artsy/fashion fine art style aesthetic and processing is wonderful. The reflection of the ringflash? in the glasses works nicely in giving a sort of weird bug-eye but intriguing effect.
    I was also wondering about the panels washing away to gray on both sides, but honest;ly the effect is neat and goes with the whole look.
    Really nice!!
    please do not edit and repost my photos


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    Re: Gaga

    Certainly one of your best.
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    Re: Gaga

    Thanks for the feedback. I'll have to try this again.

    Phil - haha, don't I wish.

    Anbesol - not too long. You can kind of see that it's still not perfectly symmetrical, but we did our best.

    The blue-gray is actually paint on the armoire.

    Don - a constant-source ringlight and some messing around in Photoshop. But the original image looks more like this than you would think. The lighting and (over) exposure are a huge part of it.

    Thanks Tom, Mandagrl, Gary, and Greg.

    I'm sure I'll be revisiting this idea. The image quality would stop me from using this take for anything, but I like the basic feel of it.

    Thanks again.

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