Self Portrait Collection I'm Working On

[JEazy]

I'm trying to make a collection of photographs capturing my emotions and feelings through self portraits. This is what I have so far, any suggestions?

See You At the Bitter End

Don't Give Up on the Dream

Spite and Malice

Without You I'm Nothing

Keeping Quiet Playing Dumb

 

[Fate]

Great collection of shots.. love them all.

The eyes in the first one... ahh

 

[loopy]

Nice shots. I really like the second one

 

[Chiller]

Neat collection. The second and fouth are cool

 

[Arch]

Neat collection. The second and fouth are cool

I agree, these two work best for me.

 

[Ringo]

I like the ideas! Just one little bit of conts. crit.-

Before I was a photographer, I was a painter (protraits/art not houses!). When you're creating every little part of the painting, you learn exactly how light affects people. It's common to think that when light fades into darkness on a person, it just gets darker. It doesn't. There's a whole lot of color play in the area between highlight and shadow on a face. With normal light, there'll be pink, red, brown, orange, and yellow.

Take a look at your last image. Where the light transitions on your nose, there's the nice color play. But where you edited it, it goes from highlight to grey to black. Have a look:

I recommend next time you use color to blend the shadow and see how it looks. Use the rest of the blending on the face as an example and try to recreate it.

Hope this helps! Good work, keep it up!

 

[TwiztidBlood]

Nice shots. I really like the second one

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