RE: Jolie's Journal (Comments Welcome, but Not Required) [First Post Has My Status]
I'm a hack photographer =) I don't say that to engender "... oh no, you're halfway decent ..." comments. It's the truth. I never took lessons in lighting, I do it mainly as a second shooter, sporadically part time, mostly weddings, quinceañeras and other fun outings in exchange for a teeny tiny bit of cash. I just get a kick going to weddings, eating free food, listening to bad music, and hanging around happy people. And every now and then I get a free trip to Jamaica out of it where I can forget that when you take an air conditioned cold lens and camera out into the hot humid beach climate of Jamaica, everything is going to fog up ... badly. Anyway, I did some day-of-the-dead crap recently and can't post my "
good" shots, because I gave them to someone else. But I took this one shot and had fun Googling the image to find out what images their algorithm thinks most closely matches my photograph.
This was their number one match,
It's so close to my image of a girl in white makeup laying next to a tombstone that it's uncanny! I was going to post my image, but the above one is actually better. Here is a different photograph I took of a model and messed with,
If you look close, you'll see the fatal flaw and why I couldn't use it (hint, it involves power cords).