This is a photo taken for ntu hall production. C&C welcome.
photographer:me
art director: william chua
DI artist: dennis
photographer:me
art director: william chua
DI artist: dennis
nice attempt.. but abit off focus..
add some noise to heighten the mood?
hmm good to see something different in the ntu hall production poster.. been flooded with lousy ones for a very long time already.. hahaha
The newspapers on the wall makes the photo a slanted horizontally but it could be a style thing - Am quite anal when it comes to horizontal and vertical axis actually.
A little more headroom would be nice I guess. Great for magazine cover but as a picture itself, I'd position her a little off centre. Maybe a landscape format would look art-ier too.
Have fun shooting.
and to say is great for a magazine cover , i dont dare to accept that compliment.
lovely art!AHAAAAAAA! did i read correctly art director --->>>is william chua? u must be special;p ucant go wrong w/ a master like him kudos to your group...more please:lovegrin:This is a photo taken for ntu hall production. C&C welcome.
photographer:me
art director: william chua
DI artist: dennis
Hi there, a very nice potrait taken i would say. With all due respects, what puzzles me most is the title of this photo. IMO, I did not get the sorrow nor the feeling that shes a songstress, pardon me if I'm direct and inexperienced in giving comments. What i felt when i saw this pic was the cool and moody feeling of the model, the setting and the model's pose was bringing out the model's Qi Pao itself, my conclusion would be that its a Qi Pao Shop's advertising that Qi Pao is still a fasion icon even in the modern times. But it's really a striking photo with a natural striking pose by the model and the moddy setting was created very well.
For my case i would set-up the model on a street with a mic infront and a darker tone qi pao and not striking any pose, then setting up strangers passing by and not noticing her, using a slow shutter speed to create the blurred passer-by effect. Also the model would by showing a reluctant and sian mood to carry on singing. Would that work? Im not sure but thats my idea, no offence.
IMHO, the right arm looks kinda flat. So does the forehead area. No feel of sorrow either. The eye makeup on the left eye seems kinda weird, or is it some weird shadow ? If not, will make a rather nice low key pic.
Thanks
A good pic but can be better.
the DI is badly done for the skin tone & more "space" might have a better impact.
the most important thing that's missing is that it doesn't seem as if the model is posing for you.
were you the only photographer? no eye contact is fine, but this one seems to have happened and was taken at a moment when the model was caught off-guard by something else - i'm guessing it's something that she could have been looking at, judging from how she seems to be looking at something near your feet.
the color tone of the entire DI is fine, but i feel like the transition of highlights to shadows on the skin is not nice and gradual - just a three-tiered "transition", which kinda shows that the exposure values were highly tweaked for contrast.
nice try but slightly don't work for me, this shot.
lovely art!AHAAAAAAA! did i read correctly art director --->>>is william chua? u must be special;p ucant go wrong w/ a master like him kudos to your group...more please:lovegrin:
i like this actually, the treatment really works, and the palette is not gimmicky, it could have been.
i think the only bone i have to pick with this picture is the model's ring - or whatever seems to be a ring, that black spot on her right hand on the hip. it really keeps catching my attention, and does not seem to go with the outfit.
on a side note, wish the hair didn't quite blend with the thing in the background; and perhaps a little less dof to isolate her from the background might be good, i.e. make her stand further from the wall.
nonetheless it is a very nice picture!
Really like this pic. Love the feel. Guess the feeling you wanted to bring out was a throwback to the 1950s with the look of a songbird waiting for her lover as promised to redeem her from her plight.
In fact, the way I see it, almost everything works. I will not say much about the lighting as it is a DIed pic, but to me the shadows are a little off, esp with the hair. Seems like a blob of black on the right. The hair that is sticking from underneath the hairpin seems to be a little messy, not too sure if that was intentional or not. If she was going on stage to perform, the hair should be on place. Given the shadow on the wall, seems the light source was on the ground at a 50 degree angle up, I could be wrong here, so I stand to be corrected. The shadow feels harsh to me, would have preferred a softer shadow, so I guess the DOF and angle here could be played around.
The good here is that I love the look of the model. Esp her eyes. It has a cold look, but yet there is a softness in her eyes. The make up probably did that. The theme sorrow I believe comes from the eyes. Something that comes out first to me in the pic. The feel of the dress works here. I see a top songbird that everyone wants to bed, but yet, she refuses everyone, except the one she is waiting for. And even her mamasan is putting her up for 'sale' to the highest bidder, hence the gold cheongsam.
Sorry...watch to many HK dramas. :sweat:
oooh i love this kinda shot. very different- in a good way of course.
the processing and styling are spot on. she kinda looks like lucy liu
Thx for the spontaneous reply, all the best and good luck for the play, break a leg for the songstress! Kudos to the rest of the crew that were behind this shot too!
And btw u should mention that its a series at first mah! haha.
Not too sure the hairdo/style and the dress both belongs to the same period of time ( can't recall seeing this type of qi-pao type of styling in those olden b/w movies of the 30's,40's od 50's). wish she had a neckline slightly longer to fit that high collar.