Melissa on a Red Velvet Couch

[Buckster]

Melissa on a Red Velvet Couch

 

[KyPink]

Perhaps it's just me, but my eyes are drawn to her feet rather than her face. Otherwise I think it's a winner!

 

[Ron Evers]

Perhaps it's just me, but my eyes are drawn to her feet rather than her face. Otherwise I think it's a winner!

I had a similar reaction, I suppose due to the legs leading a line to them.

 

[DiskoJoe]

She looks sleepy, not sexy. And why shoeless? Some heals would have helped here. But really her outfit doesn't go with the couch well. The couch seems more like what you would use for an evening dress or maybe some garter and thing action.

 

[GrahamPhisher]

fun shot, i think find a diff angle though and work on the composition

 

[Buckster]

Thanks for having a look and leaving your thoughts folks. I really appreciate it. Now for the reveal: It's a composite.

The original shots from the session in 2007, all on animal skin bedding per her choice, was against my better judgement, but I went along with it anyway. I'd always meant to go back and mask her out and drop her onto a better background, so this is my first try at that. With the plaid skirt, I've also been toying with a schoolgirl/classroom theme, and maybe I'll try that later at some point.

Anyway, here's the original, for comparison, and the composite again so you don't have to scroll all the way back to the top of the page to compare them:

 

[651stp]

you sneaky buckster!

 

[amolitor]

You have overreddened her, to my eyes, presumably to simulate light reflecting from the couch.

The skin on her legs, on both but especially in the newer shot, looks plasticky, like a Barbie doll.

The background is too interesting -- the couch, especially, but the denim (?) wall covering is also textured and in-focus, creating a fairly busy context which feels more detailed and sharp than the model (it's not actually sharper, but there might be more local contrast going on there, or some similar effect which creates a sensation of sharpness). All of this takes away from the girl. While it's not obviously a composite, having seen that it IS, it becomes obvious, because of this incongruity between the model and the background.

The model looks stoned and sloppy, as if she is waking up from a rough night -- this isn't your fault, but it does impact the image.

Her feet are not her best asset, unfortunately.

 

[Ron Evers]

Nicely done!

 

[Buckster]

You have overreddened her, to my eyes, presumably to simulate light reflecting from the couch.

The skin on her legs, on both but especially in the newer shot, looks plasticky, like a Barbie doll.

The background is too interesting -- the couch, especially, but the denim (?) wall covering is also textured and in-focus, creating a fairly busy context which feels more detailed and sharp than the model (it's not actually sharper, but there might be more local contrast going on there, or some similar effect which creates a sensation of sharpness). All of this takes away from the girl. While it's not obviously a composite, having seen that it IS, it becomes obvious, because of this incongruity between the model and the background.

The model looks stoned and sloppy, as if she is waking up from a rough night -- this isn't your fault, but it does impact the image.

Her feet are not her best asset, unfortunately.

LOL! Thanks for your opinion!

I didn't re-color her in any way between the two images.
I didn't smooth the skin in any way between the two images.
"The background is too interesting." Okay...
"It's not obviously a composite", but now that you know it is, you think it's "obvious". LOL!
Ending with disparaging remarks about the model looking stoned and sloppy and having ugly feet was a classy touch!

Oh, you're GOOD!!

 

[amolitor]

Wow, just set some kind of record for taking criticism badly.

I'm not even gonna address the rest of your rebuttals, but I invite anyone who cares to cut out equivalent sections of her legs and place them side by side, to eliminate any potential optical illusions, and compare the colors. She's MUCH redder in the composite. I would post my sample, but you're not set to allow edits, so that would be a rules violation.

 

[runnah]

Sorry, I feel like the pose, the model and the lighting just doesn't work on this one.

 

[Buckster]

Wow, just set some kind of record for taking criticism badly.

LOL! Get over yourself. I'm not taking it badly at all. In fact, I think it's pretty funny! Do you really think I care what you think? I thought I'd already made it pretty clear in previous encounters with you that I think you're nothing but a poseur. If you somehow didn't get that message, there it is again. That's why anything that comes out of your keyboard strikes me as funny, not to be taken seriously at all, and not just with my photos, but pretty much everywhere you post on the board.

I'm not even gonna address the rest of your rebuttals, but I invite anyone who cares to cut out equivalent sections of her legs and place them side by side, to eliminate any potential optical illusions, and compare the colors. She's MUCH redder in the composite. I would post my sample, but you're not set to allow edits, so that would be a rules violation.

Whatever might have happened, it was certainly unintentional since, I REPEAT, I did NOT alter the colors or skin of this woman between shots. I fixed her toes and thinned the arm facing us, and that's it. Apart from that, I simply knocked her out of one shot and dropped her into another, then adjusted and added shadows and so on TO THE BACKGROUND IMAGE to integrate her image as-is with the background.

 

[amolitor]

Sorry, I assumed that the bright red tone on her skin was deliberate. Now I see that this chromatic catastrophe was not an aesthetic choice at all, but simply a mistake.

My bad.

 

[ghache]

amolitor, geez dude. i've seen some pretty funny people come and go from this site. You made it to my top 3 of special people. You say way too much pointless ****.

THAT BLOG? OMG really...please stop. you have way too much time on your hand.
Why don't you got out and shoot ...you seems to know how this **** is done since you are on this site everyday trying to educate everyone... ***** please.