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lay it on me /p/, I'm completely untrained and have just been mimicking other people's work. I'm trying to get better at cosplay/costume/etc photos so I've been practicing and getting to know my camera by using figures at home.

so here's my "best" work to date imo.. please crit?

Before PS:
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>> Anonymous
needs much less iso. also, his entire face is in shadow. it should at least be partially lit.
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>>89320
Thanks, I'll keep ISO variances in mind playing around the next time. As for trying to light up his face I tried using additional light sources (flashlights pointed slightly away, reflecting off white paper, reflecting off glass table, other lamps across the room etc) but still wasn't able to really illuminate his face.. The Shopped version uses the untouched face c/p over the tweaked body and background...I think I'll just keep playing with more light sources... it just seemed like his face would always be in shadow because of his hair.

I hated how the background turned out up close as well... I couldn't get rid of the grainyness in PS unless I smoothed the fuck out of it ... I'm thinking of useing cloth instead for next rounds.
>> Anonymous
ooo what did you do to get the background all blackz?
>> Anonymous
>>89462
im guessing he put a black thing back there.
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>>89467
I used a black binder (honestly, I was just doing a fast, playing around shot... it was the closest thing I could find)

The shot was on my glass kitchen table with a ceiling lamp over to the left. I put another black binder on the metal poles of the table so nothing under the glass would show except black as well...

In photoshop I just used few layers of to tune it to completely black.. the tiny reflection was fine tuned and brightened, and Roy's body was tweaked in another layer..

this was the only other shot of him I liked... and I only really edited his eye just a tad...

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these are shots taken with a much crappier camera... but it was the first time I went for something with atmosphere with the subjects...doing mostly all the work in PS

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...any thoughts/tricks/pointers- anything at all, lemme hear them?

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