Friday, October 31, 2008

Colors in portraits


kim stress
Originally uploaded by ballyhoo photography
The impact of color in a portrait. I needed a few more pictures for a school assignment. Kim had a full day of work, then taught an evening class in Tigard. She got home about 10 to have a camera shoved in her face and a fill card pushed into her lap and was told to act "natural". I love when people put a camera in my face and tell me to act natural.
Fortunately, over the years, Kim has become tolerant of my obsession and has been my willing test subject.
I wanted to illustrate her stress, without adding to it by making her act stressed. I could see that she was already stressed enough. She ran her hands through her hair as she decompressed and I caught this shot on one of the sweeps and loved the angles of it. I cross processed the image in Photoshop to add the contrast and add the color dynamic to the image and am happy with the outcome.
The blue image was the same night. I wanted a different emotion out of the same light. She leaned back, I changed the fill card a bit and shot this. I think it shows quite a different person. What do you think?

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