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More excellent work Dray. Personally I would like to see a little sight of his knees and trousers especially as his hands are resting there.. I do like that wrist watch!
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Aptly titled, and a dramatic shot that screams B & W only. As a work in progress I will wait for the final before offering suggestions if I can find any. Great work.
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Love it Dray! Especially like the bunny ear shaped shadow on the right-side wall. At the knees, I think I'd do something to either bring out or subdue the pinstripes below his fingertips. As Overbeyond also mentioned, that is one awesome wristwatch!
Lord I love stuff like this.
Can't say anything that hasn't been said.
Where do I get a watch like that and what is that hanging from his jacket pocket?
The pants - duly noted. They were darkened and obscured by the texture layer, so it's something I can fix.
Ron - all I'm really going to do, I think, is just some fine-tuning, cleaning up, etc. The pants, the couch directly behind him, the shadow of the hanging watch... making sure the big rabbit shadows look good... removing the high pass halos... etc. I originally had a clock hanging on the wall and a guitar leaning against the side of the couch, but neither added anything positive.
Frog - thanks! That's a pocket watch hanging from the jacket. And as for the wristwatch... any repair shop should have one that looks like his. lol
Dray ma´ men! As I have said before...you never fail to amaze me with your shots!
This is a killer one, the whole thing works perfect, the distortion, clothes, watches, tones, expression, lights, shadows, etc. Awesome shot!
The broad range of elements add a unique flavor, but the hands of the subject really caught my eye, they have a strange proportion and great "texture". They frame the other key element just perfect...the rabbit.
Surreal shot!
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Dray, great photo for all the reasons noted above. The one thing that bothers me is the shadow of the ears on the wall. Love the shadow itself, but the angle is wrong, IMHO. Cock your two fingers as the bunny's ears are and shine a flashlight on the wall to see what I mean.
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I agree, Paula. Very sharp shooting! It was the hardest thing about this image. Since I changed the perspective of the original (for which reason the flashlight trick, though a great idea, wouldn't really work) and added tons of illogical distortion, it was hard to figure out the ears. But it is definitely true. I will have to go back a play with the perspective tool...
The shadows on the wall and the rabbit on the lap really make the shot. Facial expression is priceless. I wish I had some "advice" but this is so far better than what I can do I'm not sure I could add anything if I wanted to.
Shebang: regarding the shadow, my initial "interpretation" was that the ear shadow on the right belongs to another bunny somewhere off-camera, and I'm not sure, but I think I make out another faint shadow of ears on the left side of the frame that may belong to the bunny on the lap (or am I imagining things? ).
"As the bunny's ears are"... ah, I missed that part somehow. Paula, it appears that you might have been thinking that the shadows are shadows cast by the ears of the rabbit on his lap...? Which is not the case.
EDIT: unless you meant that the shadow ears should look similar to the bunny ears in terms of perspective...
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OHHHHH, NOW I see the shadow of the bunny-on-the-lap's ears on the LEFT! Because the cast shadows (be they ever so slight) in this picture are as though the light is coming from the left, which is traditionally the direction from which it comes in much art, and because the ear shadows on the right are more prominant, and because there is only one bunny....I quit looking after I saw the shadow on the right (Did you follow me through all that??!)
Regarding the flashlight -- I only intended that to demonstrate what I was trying to say, not that you should incorporate some flashlight trick in the photo -- you're way more talented than that!
Okay, now that we're through all that...........
Because of the cast shadow reasoning above, I think the ear shadow on the left should go away, and the ear shadow on the right should be "flipped" or mirrored so the angle is accurate...or at least close enough to accurate.....again, IMHO.
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my initial "interpretation" was that the ear shadow on the right belongs to another bunny somewhere off-camera, and I'm not sure, but I think I make out another faint shadow of ears on the left side of the frame that may belong to the bunny on the lap
I really like the multiplying bunny theory even if it's not what Dray may have originally intended. So in my opinion, the less the shadows look like they came from the same bunny, the better.
I really like the multiplying bunny theory even if it's not what Dray may have originally intended. So in my opinion, the less the shadows look like they came from the same bunny, the better.
I also felt the shadow of the ears were from another bunny lurking about on a table out of the picture or something. It was just there for whimsical and interesting "weirdness"
My only nitpik and it really is nothing in the big picture here, is wanting to see less fade of the sofa as it nears the wall. It seems to come into my mind everytime I view this.
I'm glad you guys are getting the "multiple bunnies" thing. In my mind, there was the bunny on his lap and two additional bunnies... possibly... somewhere.
Someone else mentioned this and I thought it was a good comparison: did anyone see Bram Stoker's Dracula? I was thinking of the scene in the castle where Dracula's shadow would be doing something completely different than the count himself. The shadow had kind of a life of its own.
So I suppose I was originally going for something vaguely along those lines which then took a turn for the Fantasia idea of the shadows having no discernible origin.
Gary - I think the couch fades like that because of a texture layer. Pretty sure I can fix it.
Gary - I think the couch fades like that because of a texture layer. Pretty sure I can fix it.
This was the 24-70 at 24 or close to it.
I fiigured it was the layering but I would not call it "broken" where it would need to be fixed. Its really a personal call but I thought I would just tell you that it keeps coming to my attention, maybe because I am aware of the processing behind the scenes which is why I think it might not really be a significant thing at all.
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