MODEL: Adrianne - Which color scheme works best.

RMThompson · Nov 14, 2009

Two different photos processed in different ways. What appeals to you?

A - 1

A 2

A 3

B 1

B 2

B 3

Pugs · Nov 14, 2009

A-1 is the best as A-2 is just hideous (sorry for being blunt and rude, but I REALLY dislike it), and A-3 is very flat tonally.

B-3 is easily the best. B-1, she looks good, but the water has this weird colored halo surrounding her and in B-2 that halo is even worse.

teneighty23 · Nov 15, 2009

agreed completely with Pugs

RMThompson · Nov 15, 2009

Thanks for the comments guys. I see the halo too, but it doesn't bother me as much as it should I guess.

As for the A-2 coloring, interestingly enough I got some compliments on it. I'm not attached to it eitherway, it was a Photoshop action I was playing with.

Here's another:

gopal · Nov 15, 2009

a1 and b1 are better close to natural.

Pugs · Nov 15, 2009

This could be the best of the ones you've posted. The rainbow and how dark sky looks above it makes the rainbow look PhotoChopped in. I'm not a fan of her expression, either.

This last note is completely personal bias so take it with a grain of salt. I find the tilted camera, intentionally diagonal horizon thing to be a totally played out and trite gimmick. It irks me to no end. One of my close friends is a wedding photographer and 75% of her shots use that gimmick. Her clients love her, so maybe it's just me.

RMThompson · Nov 15, 2009

Pugs said:
This could be the best of the ones you've posted. The rainbow and how dark sky looks above it makes the rainbow look PhotoChopped in. I'm not a fan of her expression, either.

This last note is completely personal bias so take it with a grain of salt. I find the tilted camera, intentionally diagonal horizon thing to be a totally played out and trite gimmick. It irks me to no end. One of my close friends is a wedding photographer and 75% of her shots use that gimmick. Her clients love her, so maybe it's just me.

No problem man. If you read my posts, especially frmo last year, you'll realize that I like to experiment with Post Processing a lot, and sometimes things don't work. I shot things that I like, and I don't really mind things that seem out of reality.

The rainbow is of course, fake, but I actually sort of like it here. The dark sky is part of my obsession with vignetting, which 99% of my photos appear.