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Published: 2002-05-08 02:30:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 2037; Favourites: 32; Downloads: 200
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A friend of mine was doing a tribute piece to a friend of his that died in car accident, and asked me if I would take a self portrait of myself looking 'distressed'. I agreed, I setup my camera and shot off about 20 pics.8months later I'm feeling much like I look in the photo, and decided I should post it.
Taken with Kodak DC210, cropping, tinting and some focus correction in photoshop.
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i really like this photo a lot, and I love the softness of it
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::: I hope that life is a little lighter for you now :::
very nice image indeed. xx
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Very wonderful shot ... very nice balance of dark and light space ... kudos!
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I have been in this pose ... I have lost in my life ... all I'm going to say is that I can relate to this image.
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Great contrast and hue. Good focus correction, the sofa and curtain is soft while you are looking sharp. Nice photo.
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I think if tears should have color, then it should be white.
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this is very beautiful, real quality work here my friend.
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The blue cast works very well to connote sadness and grief - complemented by the wonderfuly soft (tender) windowlight and narrow depth of field. Given the narrow depth of field you've done well to know exactly where to position yourself.
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wow i was just browsing through random deviants profiles and i came across this. excellent picture, the emotion conveyed is absolutely outstanding. earlier this year i had a friend who's little brother comitted suicide. exactly the same feeling.
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i love the idea! the color and overall feeling of this is very touching. great work as usual, my friend!
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i love the idea! the color and overall feeling of this is very touching. great work as usual, my friend!
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i love the idea! the color and overall feeling of this is very touching. great work as usual, my friend!
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l like the soft tone, nice portrait. I wish you didn't have to feel that way to post it, but that's life, 2/4 of distress, 1/4 of compatibility (neutral) and 1/4 of happiness...
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That is an awesome shot. The way you come alive in the photo while everything else seems to fade into itself, you can almost feel the emotion.
Adding this to my favorites.
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The world around you looks like a dream. Very creepy, very emotional.
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This is awesome. The lighting is fantastic, but it does add a bit too much light to something that to me, should feel a bit darker. But regardless, the lighting IS amazing You're pretty damn good with a simple digital camera and can get some great effects.
The pose is good me thinks, especially because I usually sit like that when I'm angry or depressed or something. The fact that you can't see you're face really adds a lot to it as well.
Regardless, this is a wonderful photo. I love the lighting/shadows and the colours, its just fabulous. Very evocative too. Definantly a favourite.
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again, +favs
You rock
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...I strive to convey what you try to condone...
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wow....the sense of deparation and depression is countered by the glowing window and chair which gives a sense of enlightenment, but at the same time the clenched fist shows the pain and struggle...
beautiful shot. very moving.
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I love how shadows and light merge...and the mood it sets off is amazing...instant fav!
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I ride wild storms all through the night,
Dark,hear my call,obey my might...
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quality itself is ok, personally i think any photo with 'corrections' is a manip but thats just me...
neways, the feel and emotion the shot portrays is sstrong and way worthy
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i really like this picture.
coming from a guy who can't shoot portraits for shit that may not mean too much but
i do...the focus, the pose, the feeling envoked
much like +fav
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What exactly do you mean by focus correction? Any correction made to the focus isn't exactly good if it is done digitally in my book. If it was to the chair it looks blurry because of photoshop blur not camera depth of field blur.
However, all things aside, I think it's important that you stress what the photo was about and the idea. Therefore link to the details page.
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I love the pose, I really do. I like how I cannot see your face. I think that though the cropping could be more on you. I think if you were a bit closer taking up more of the frame the white behind you would not be so distracting.
The softness works as well as the seemingly blue tone.
I'd say that I know this is a pretty strong image, but it could use a little bit of work in general.
Portraits aren't easy at all, this much I know.
You can either do them or you cannot. You I think are going to be able to do them.
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Now that I actually went to the "vew details" and read the description it changed it a lot. I thought it was an artistic self portrait which it turned out NOT to be. So forget all I said above.
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soft focus works really well, i love the lighiting and the blue tint. very emotional.
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Suffocation of the senses. :/
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Okay. First of, the idea and quality are amazing. EVerything I will be saying afterwards, I will be saying BECAUSE I love you and I know you can and will do better, if you consider my comments worth noting.
I like the soft atmosphere. The low contrast, the whites of the background.
The pose sucks. And so do the clothes. If you idea was the suffering "good", then you should have wore all white, or all grey, or... okay, those black socks are the end of me. What is the pose supposed to suggest? Is it tention? is it desperation? saddness? depression? You look all crooked up, the legs position is something confusing, the leg is cut of and we can't see you "touch the ground". Your left hand seems to be flying in the air. How comfortable is it, to rest the head on the hand that is not resting on anything? I like the fists idea though, that looks nice. oh, another thing. The black shadows. I know just too well how had it is to get rid of thsoe when the picture is done in front of the window, but even a small light source, or, even better, a kind of a reflector would help, would bring out thedetail in hair and clothes on the right side.
And take of those socks.
there.
and I still love you.
It's an amazingly strong picture, I wish I was not in the bitching mood tonight, I think I would even add it to my favourites.
Contradicting myself? well, what did you expect from a Hesitation?
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Excellent job. The focus is great, the pose, lighting, the whole setup rocks.
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Nice. Like the lighting. Like the blue.
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+fav, everything about it.. yea..
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