Make It Funky.

[CLKunst]

From a shoot I did in the last week. Comments and critique welcome. Suggestions cheerfully explored but please leave the editing to me. :thumbsup:

[MB1]

That is fun all right but I think you have him awfully centered in the frame. Do you have any other looks?

[CLKunst]

Yes, but they're all more or less as centered as that. We were in a coffee house and the background, aside from this painting was. . . um, Yargh! Pink, peach, red and brown were the predominant colors. This is a crop from a portrait style shot of him standing in front of a painting on the wall which I then hit with a gaussian and a radial blur filter. It is for the back side of a CD cover so it will have to be square.

[Greg McCary]

That's funny. I think you could almost do without the flare. It looks to fake. I like it. The background is perfect.

[Ptax]

Love the colors. You certainly made it funky. I can almost year Greg arguing with Peter and Bobby.

[DrRoebuck]

I would think about cropping in super-close on his face. Play around. Get funky with it ... (*sigh*)

[MB1]

Looking at this again he needs to smile and show some teeth so you could some more bling there.

Now that would put the fun back in funk!

[CLKunst]

PTax glad you like it I think the colors work too!

Dr. R - Great suggestion! Here's a couple of versions I like. I don't have too much creative control with these which is why I left the first crop loose. I'm working with a designer on this project so I expect to see this run through a whole "floor routine" of changes before we end up with something everyone's happy with.

MB1 - I agree a beautiful smile :yesnod: , and he has one, would have been great here. I looked at the entire session and have about 3 true smiles for the whole shoot. He's got a vision for this project that apparently has nothing to do with smiling and more with looking cool and aloof. The three I did get were after lots of prying from me and none of them were chosen for final consideration by the designer or the client, so oh well.

[CLKunst]

That's funny. I think you could almost do without the flare. It looks to fake. I like it. The background is perfect.

Thanks Greg,

The star burst on his glasses is actually a cheesy way of disguising a flash flare that was really there, I could have cloned it out but chose to go the other way with it to up the silly retro feel from the wig. I removed it on a few other edits just for comparison. Go figure, the designer picked this one.