Lost Drifter

[JoshGuim]

Hello all, I am new to this forum. I wanted to start off with this brand new photo I finished editing last night. Please let me know what you all think. Critics are welcomed!


-Josh Guim


Lost by JoshGuim, on Flickr

 

[480sparky]

My first impression is that the subject is out-of-scale with the car he's sitting on. Either the car is one of those micro-mini-Euro 200 mpg jobs, or the subject is 10 feet tall.

 

[Amocholes]

Definitely out of scale. My first thought was "boy or girl?" Then I decided just an androgynous looking pretty boy. The flash on him is rather harsh and his skin appears to be washed out. Like he hasn't seen the sun in about 6 months. He's also too neat and clean to be "drifter".

You have some interesting shots on flickr!

 

[tyler_h]

The guy looks shopped in. And I take it you spend a lot of time smoothing his skin? :S Guys will typically be processed rougher than a female beauty shoot... a bit of stubble, some dirt on his shirt etc, would help with the drifter idea.

 

[DiskoJoe]

yeah the scale is weird. head looks huge. other then that i like it. Think this might have been good with the full subject (head to toe) in the shot.

 

[Derrel]

Guy? It sure looks like a female to me...anyway...what bugs me the most is the sun in the background--it just loathe the way almost ALL d-slr camera's render the sun as this huge, burned out blob that is 3x larger than it ought to be...film, or the FujiFilm S3 or S5 Pro with their 14-stop dynamic range and special highlight-only dual photodiodes could render the sun properly...it just bugs me to see where the sun should be, and then an equally large surrounding area that is nothing but a detail-free blob of light yellow space that totally dominates the dark background areas that are not the sun! I think if you had managed to hide that entire sun-blob behind her body by stepping about four steps to the right before pressing the shutter release, that the dark background would work much,much more effectively.