PHOTOGRAPHY ENTRY 002

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Subject: Joe, Tim, and Sudor (from From Heaven With A Gun)
Title: 2005 Promotional Photos
Used For: Chosen by the band, to be on the official website/MySpace/etc.
Film Type: Kodak 400 TMax & FujiFilm 400 Superia X-Tra
Scan Quality: The b&w's scanned a lot better than the coloured ones.

Taken At: Baseball field, with a horizon line of trees and

Comments

[_danceaholic]

i like these pictures -- especially the ones with the lights (cars, etc.) passing by.

[pardonthelitany]

these are beautiful!
the first one especially so.

[maliekai]

The emotion of the first and third pictures is great. Gentleman number two, though, I think would benefit from a more distant shot. Did you try any with the subject on the right side of the frame?

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Little background on Tim (photo two), he was the most difficult one to photograph out of everybody, every other second he was laughing or making an odd face.....so considering that situation, I thought that photo really captured his non-existant calm side. And considering the print quality, the details came out well with him, which is why I shot him so close.

And no, I didn't shoot any on the right side of the frame. I wanted to have some sort of consistancy throughout these ones, considering how unique-looking everyone in the band is (still have to print 2/5 members).....

[ashenflowers]

These turned out really good! I like where the car lights are in the last one better though. In the first one the lights happen to fall around his neckline or chin, so they kind of separate the pic in an awkward area (like, cut his head off). I think it's also because the lights are on either side of his head. It looks better in the last one, where they're lower down in relationship to the guy (more around his shoulders), and they're also only to one side. For me, it makes them look more like a cool part of the background, rather than a distraction.

They also look best black & white, although, that could be why the lights in the first one don't seem to sit right for me? Nice job though, all in all =) I do like how they turned out. If you hadn't explained how you took the pics, I'd have had no idea how you got that (with the black and all). lol
And how'd you get the guys to stay still enough to not be blurred while the car lights were? haha

I hope that all made sense...

[ashenflowers]

(more thoughts after reading other comments... haha. I'm tired, and this is fun!)
I can definitely understand wanted to do a similar style (i.e. all on the left side of the frame), throughout the pics. That makes sense, especially with doing separate photos of members of a band. But maybe doing a couple on the right side would be enough to mix it up visually. Or have the subjects turn their body towards the right side, but keep them on the left of the frame. Doing them all in B/W and with the cars in the background I think fulfills the consistency portion well.

I like how you had them at different distances from the camera though. That mixes it up well too. And the fact that you caught the first guy's tattoos in the pic is also great. (also, I checked out their website, and saw that last photo posted there in B/W. Looks great! ooo... what if you kept them in B/W but the car lights in colour? *shrug* just an idea) ;)
I'll shut up now. lmao

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I didn't want to edit these photos (ie: subject b&w/car lights colour). I wanted them as I took them. Like, the last one here.....the print does the colours in that photo so much more justice. My camera picked up the different colours from them cars, and ended up casting them on his face, but after being scanned/resized/etc.....they look a bit washed out (once again, I wanted to do little to no retouching).

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Yeah, the car blurs in photo one really fell at an awkward place. But it also shows the height differene between Joe (1st pic/standing in around 5'9"/10") and Sudor (3rd pic/standing in at 6'3"ish). And if you're interested, I've edited this entry with a b&w photo three.

Okay.....the cars were literally a huge field's length away, and it's called no "depth of field" with cameras. I had the foreground (the guys) in focus, and the background not focused. And considering the cars were going so fast in the background, and I was using 400 speed film.....when the camera took the photo it picks up the light trails. Make sense?

[pandorya]

The first is my favourite of the three. It is not that I am all for black and white photography as I -do- love color, but night shots look best (to me) if they are all black and white, or black and white with some -very- pale coloring that is so dim you almost can't see it. I also love sepia tones.

The second just looks like a random snapshot, does not really look posed or planned. I think it would have looked better had it of been from farther away with his hoody pulled down a bit over his face to create menice and shadows.

I like the third one, but it is a bit too colorful for a night shot.

I love the blur of traffic in the background of the first and third. It ads a nice emotion to the photos.

[maliekai]

I totally agree, about the second. There's something too... boring and friendly (?? haha) about that picture, especially when contrasted with the other two.