Fake Executive shots

gonzogolf wrote in post #14286348
It looks better, but your background is still a bit dark for my taste. It appears like you are trying to use the background light for a vignette or halo look. I'd rather see a bit more separation and less halo. It draws attention away from her face.

Noted and I agree with you.

airfrogusmc wrote in post #14286439
It is a little dark and bit res on my monitor. Lighten it up but you still need to bring the background up. When something like this is printed in a brochure on newspaper all that dark will block up and in when that happens you will have a floating face.

I see what you mean. But regarding the dark, it seems OK on several monitors. Anyone else think it's too dark?

Here's the real executive shot

top three pics on original post look a touch too magenta, the one a few posts down looks too yellow.

zyndurai wrote in post #14302984
Here's the real executive shot

I was asked to "match" their other executive shot that was done in a different state, so they needed that vignette and the backlit grey background.

On another note, I just got myself a spyder4pro kit to calibrate all my monitors.

I don't think they would notice this but the eyes are a bit soft when I compare this to your very first image.

I believe part of significance here is documentary nature of image so you do not want to skew image's mood or nature too much in one way or another by excess play with shadows.

I think that my problems with it is that the background light seems to harsh, snooting or gridding should help, and that there almost seems to be more light coming from your bottom reflector than from your main strobe. It just feels like there's this large light source coming from the floor and its uneven.

Also, you have the guy's body turned away from the light but his face turned back towards it, this just feels really weird to me and actually took me a while to realize thats what was going on.

This is not a perfect example (I need a hairlight but there were certain constraints that did not allow it for this shoot) but I feel like its a tighter image and might help you towards getting the look that you want.

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