Johnny Guest
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Stunning concept
Your outstanding talent in depicting interesting/beautiful faces works against the effect in this particular instance.
I understand the model is not available for a re-shoot, but for future reference - - This TYPE photo is usually hurriedly composed and taken by a police forensics person or a morgue technician more concerned with getting the task out of the way than a pleasant depiction.
The lighting at a crime scene is usually either inadequate with consequent underexposure, or else suffers from way too much strobe. Background can be wrinkled sheet, carpet, or upholstery. A smudge or two, perhaps a small amount of dark stain at one corner of the mouth . . .?
In the hospital morgue or the ME's autopsy room, the background is nearly always a stainless steel table or institutional tile with dark grout. Sometimes, the body is on a not-very-smooth sheet - - Surgical green or blue, occasionally white. The blood has almost always been cleaned up, but as outfieldjack suggested, the techs have probably closed the eyes. Seems as if one eye is usually just slightly open. The face should be fully exposed. There's either a sheet pulled all the way up to the chin, or else there's no covering and the photo edge is right down around the collarbones. The hair is mussed.
Oleg, all this is nit picking. Your concept is clear, and brings to my mind the hundreds of such photos I've seen -- and sometimes took myself.
Nice work, as usual.
Johnny
Your outstanding talent in depicting interesting/beautiful faces works against the effect in this particular instance.
I understand the model is not available for a re-shoot, but for future reference - - This TYPE photo is usually hurriedly composed and taken by a police forensics person or a morgue technician more concerned with getting the task out of the way than a pleasant depiction.
The lighting at a crime scene is usually either inadequate with consequent underexposure, or else suffers from way too much strobe. Background can be wrinkled sheet, carpet, or upholstery. A smudge or two, perhaps a small amount of dark stain at one corner of the mouth . . .?
In the hospital morgue or the ME's autopsy room, the background is nearly always a stainless steel table or institutional tile with dark grout. Sometimes, the body is on a not-very-smooth sheet - - Surgical green or blue, occasionally white. The blood has almost always been cleaned up, but as outfieldjack suggested, the techs have probably closed the eyes. Seems as if one eye is usually just slightly open. The face should be fully exposed. There's either a sheet pulled all the way up to the chin, or else there's no covering and the photo edge is right down around the collarbones. The hair is mussed.
Oleg, all this is nit picking. Your concept is clear, and brings to my mind the hundreds of such photos I've seen -- and sometimes took myself.
Nice work, as usual.
Johnny
