Newest Work, Help/CC wanted.

[Mr. B]

Hey gang.

This is on of my newest. Looking for help/tips.

The background will be fixed. I will be taking the striped fabric and filing it in all around.

I've added in the milk and some oreos floating around. I'm going to add a few more.

Uploaded to photobucket instead of Flickr so the quality sucks.

[prncfarquad]

I like the concept but her face seems to be too dark on my screen. Also I don't know if it is the angle of the camera but the table looks level and the curtains in the bg are sloping from left to right and that is a bit of a distraction for me. I bet there is a heck of a clean up after that shot

[Mr. B]

I shot it at just above table level.
The curtain is sloped a bit but as I said I will be filling the BG.
Her face looks a bit dark on mine as well and I want to lighten it. I really hate Photobucket.

And yes. Lots of clean up. haha. Kind of a test of self.

[The Philos]

Nothing in the shot looks real. It looks like you took an image that started out as a portrait that needs some work with the lighting and pasted her into this image (the hair light is kind of a give away). I have no ideas why the cookies are flying or where they are coming from. I agree the tilt is distracting and it's not as simple a fix as filling the background; if you look carefully almost none of the vertical stripes are actually vertical (and they vary from vertical by different amounts).

None of the lighting matches - I've got this bright white creme filling and bright white milk, but this huge drop in intensity as it gets to the model? As a whole the image doesn't work for me - I admire the ambition, but start simple and get a good clean composite down before moving on to something more complex.

[Mr. B]

Originally Posted by ThePhilosopher

Nothing in the shot looks real. It looks like you took an image that started out as a portrait that needs some work with the lighting and pasted her into this image (the hair light is kind of a give away). I have no ideas why the cookies are flying or where they are coming from. I agree the tilt is distracting and it's not as simple a fix as filling the background; if you look carefully almost none of the vertical stripes are actually vertical (and they vary from vertical by different amounts).

None of the lighting matches - I've got this bright white creme filling and bright white milk, but this huge drop in intensity as it gets to the model? As a whole the image doesn't work for me - I admire the ambition, but start simple and get a good clean composite down before moving on to something more complex.

Thanks for the critique, and as I've said, this image is far from done. I've barely done anything to it. Iadded in the milk and 2 Oreos.

She was not placed there. She was shot like that. I know what I would like to to look like and know mostly what I need to do to make it so.

What I'm mostly asking is what Simone interpretation would be if this photo.

I was trying to get her to give me anger but she wasn't very expressive. The Oreos, milk, and pitcher (not pictured) will all be floating around her as though she is levetating. I've even considered adding a supernautural glow to her eyes.

[Mr. B]

to to = it to
Simone = someones
she is levitating them*

I originally had a completely different shot in mind but the original model didn't show up so I called in a friend.