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UPDATED - PLEASE READ BEFORE REPLYING This started off as a "help me pick between the color and black and white version of this" post but now that I am done retouching things I just need help picking the best image from the shoot. Just pick the one that you like the best, regardless of it being in color or not. Simple as that. Thanks! I would have done another post about it but why bother. Let's recycle! Oh yeah, and if you HATE them all, tell me why! :-) NUMBER 1  NUMBER 2  NUMBER 3  NUMBER 4  NUMBER 5  Jul 30 14 11:47 am Link I'm gonna say color but it's a really close call. If it didn't have the flag I would probably like the BW one better but I like seeing the colors, just really classic Americana type thing. Great shot by the way  Jul 30 14 12:22 pm Link I personally think the color image works the best... for two reasons. 1. The red, white and blue American Flag needs it's colors to make an impact. 2. The contrast range you've select for the B&W image is alittle too contrasty for my liking... no details in the blue pants or blue areas of the flag. Jul 30 14 12:23 pm Link COLOR! Jul 30 14 12:36 pm Link Yeah I think color is the obvious winner. I just wanted to make sure. You guys are right, a flag needs color, at least when it's in a shot like this one. Thanks! Jul 30 14 12:37 pm Link Another vote for colour. Jul 30 14 12:56 pm Link Like to see just the skin in color,, as if the flag needs new life to carry it forward or it will just be a thing from the past and I hate cross coloring but I would like to see it here, just a thought, makes a statement. For the models port, the statement or color but not the cross color. EH Jul 30 14 01:33 pm Link First vote for the black and white. The contrast is great. But just one (very) worthless opinion. Jul 30 14 01:52 pm Link E H wrote: It's interesting to look at... Jul 30 14 01:57 pm Link Nor-Cal Photography wrote: Thanks :-) Jul 30 14 01:58 pm Link Yajhil Alvarez wrote: I do like it, makes a statement for hope,, for the model this statement or color, I dont think the stylizing is good for BW, just my opinion. Jul 30 14 02:04 pm Link E H wrote: Do you like this one more or the full color version? Jul 30 14 02:08 pm Link Yajhil Alvarez wrote: Hate it, full color is much better Jul 30 14 02:14 pm Link I don't think I could pick one over the other. Just don't display them both in the same place? Jul 30 14 02:16 pm Link Yajhil Alvarez wrote: Like I said I HATE cross color, but there is always the exception to the rule here for me this is the exception,, ya, says it is strong message of hope... This is the best version. Now I can't say I hate cross color anymore. Jul 30 14 02:16 pm Link Schlake wrote: Yeah, I was asking because I want to put one of them on my facebook page because both would look stupid to me. Jul 30 14 04:41 pm Link Philipe wrote: LOL! Thanks! Jul 30 14 04:41 pm Link E H wrote: I have done a few cross color before and people have murdered me verbally over it. I haven't tried to do it since, till now lol. Jul 30 14 04:42 pm Link I'm going to be a contrarian, I'm afraid, and forgive me for that. The flag looks extremely dirty and muddy. I assume that that was intentional, but, classically, it is a huge sign of disrespect for the flag. Flags that are dirty, threadbare or torn are supposed to be burned. On the other hand, using the flag to make a statement can be very powerful. A dirty flag is usually interpreted as a powerful, but negative, political statement. Here it seems like the flag is intended to add a positive element to the image, sort of "classic American manliness". Yet, by being so dirty, it badly detracts from that message -- at least for those who understand the symbolism. Because of that, I think the B&W image works better, but I would reshoot with a clean flag. Jul 30 14 04:50 pm Link NatLight Studios wrote: The flag is not dirty at all actually. It's a beach towel and it was made to look like that. A friend of mine came to visit me about a month ago, he went to Santa Monica, bought it, used it once to lay one the sand, and then went back to NJ but told me to keep it. I told him I would find a use for it since I don't go to the beach often at all and for whatever reason when I saw this model I got an image in my head of him holding it by this tunnel so I brought it to the shoot. I then told him to wrap it around the way he did so that the inside of it wouldn't show too much and give away the fact that it's actually a towel. It's for sure not dirty. Jul 30 14 04:55 pm Link POST UPDATED Jul 30 14 07:29 pm Link Full color non selective.. Jul 30 14 07:38 pm Link BillyVegas wrote: I changed the post. What does your comment mean? Non selective? Jul 30 14 08:47 pm Link I love 1 & 2. Jul 31 14 08:54 am Link Yamari Aviles wrote: Thanks! Jul 31 14 09:54 am Link BW Jul 31 14 02:44 pm Link Geoff Jones wrote: I changed the topic :-( Aug 01 14 11:19 am Link |
