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Challenge: Male Portrait (Basic Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Nikon D300
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 VR DG IF-ED
Location: Sydney
Date: May 26, 2008
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 34 sec
Galleries: Portraiture
Date Uploaded: May 26, 2008

 This started as an idea to reproduce a combination of 2 Beatles Album Covers (Hard Days Night & Meet the Beatles). As I had to have everything except the models face black in order to not show any double exposure I found using the studio lights proved to be too strong so I tried just painting him quickly with a torch. After a few shots of this I felt it needed something more and had some coloured gels laying around and wondered what using those might look like.

Unfortunately because I was now painting with light and not using flash the model does not show up as crisp so was thinking about scrapping the idea but once I saw this image on my production PC it struck me how much it might look like a an Andy Warhol repro or a CMYK separation, hence the name.

To get my model to appear in the correct place on each 'flash' of the torch I lined up 2 chairs next to each other and framed him sitting on each chair & standing in front of each chair. With the room completely black except for the light from my laptop behind me I opened up the shutter in bulb. Had an assistant standing on a stool just left & front of the model and he would 'flash' the model after he indicated he was ready in each pre-set position.

When all 4 shots were exposed I closed the shutter....voile!

A little basic processing in LR & CS3 but otherwise not too different from the original.

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/03/2008 11:52:56 PM
Jokes will do that to you...I'm beside myself all the time! :) LOL! Funny! :}
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 06/02/2008 03:03:15 PM
i dont like how you have 4 of him.
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 06/01/2008 12:35:53 AM
Very original. Funny. Looks like you had a good time with this.
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 05/30/2008 09:33:50 AM
Intristing use of color for each mood
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 05/29/2008 09:17:02 AM
creative and freaky at the same time
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/28/2008 08:48:46 PM
Four busts. This appeals to for reasons I cannot explain.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/28/2008 08:21:50 PM
Not general processing
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 05/28/2008 03:19:48 PM
This is probably not legal...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/28/2008 02:42:58 PM
I don't care for the green or yellow or blue or red casts on the faces - they are just not flattering, or complementary, colours... Also, you can do this in basic editing?
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 05/28/2008 09:54:20 AM
nice shadows
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 05/28/2008 07:34:35 AM
not sure how you did this within the basic editing rules...
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 05/28/2008 02:50:36 AM
Three of the four images are blurred. And I would like to see the images aligned better.
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