Ring heart-shadow...

BreitlingFan wrote in post #14321517
Clever, I suppose, but I can see how it could be waaaaay overdone...

To complete the effect you need to find the verse that begins with "Love is..."

I did it with handcuffs and the criminal code book.

It's similar to selective coloring and multiplicity shots. Photographers hate it, but clients LOVE IT. I'll use those played-out, over-done techniques and I don't care if other photographers don't like it. You guys don't write the checks.


Having said that, I wouldn't enter it into a contest, or make it a picture of the day, or anything like that. Those contests are for photographers to show off to other photographers.

Meh. Is this any less unique than taking a photo of people sitting upright, smiling, and looking slightly away from the camera? Or capturing emitted and reflected photons on a sensitive collector? Com'on people! Show some originality here! Come up with something more unique than capturing photons, it has been done to death. Clearly we should capture sound waves in a visual manner or something new. (Ignoring that visualisation of soundwaves is not actually new.)

I whole heartedly say Meh to the issue, and have to say that I like CPeay's take on it.

cpeay wrote in post #14324450
I did it with handcuffs and the criminal code book.

That is awesome.

I've got a set of 'cuffs around here somewhere...

I like that cuff-heart. To play with the cliche is awesome.

Personally, I don't see anything wrong with it if done well. Of course, I say that, but I've been working my way through the library of cliches myself:o while trying to find a way to do them my own way. I think it's people who are doing them poorly that make them such miserable cliches (of course, all of my work is poor, so I guess I'm i that category myself). Just look at the link to the heart shadow images, many of them look blah, but some are actually pretty well done and you can tell the photographer gave it more thought than just "ooooh, lets put the ring in the book and pop a light on it, that'll knock her socks off!". Of course, we have to admit that some of these cliches' exist because they work. People eat them up. Just look at the "easy bake oven" aka chernobylHDR effect; I think it's as horrible as it is horribly overdone yet people eat it up. Just go to you're nearest urban construction site at 3 in the afternoon, take about 30 shots of a parked bulldozer at 1/3 ev intervals and merge them in Photomatix with whatever preset looks the craziest. Suddenly you are an HDR god on flickr (or facebook). I guess what I'm getting at is that maybe what we really don't like is the people get caught up in the effect and allow it to override an otherwise lackluster image. While the wow factor of the effect may help increase the interest of an otherwise weak image, it also weakens the power of the effect. Don't believe me, just browse my flickr, it's a perfect example of effect trumping skill.

cpeay wrote in post #14324450
I did it with handcuffs and the criminal code book.

I call it tough love

Hmm..I hadn't seen that one before. For me it is people making their hands into the shape of a heart.

reneefk wrote in post #14341685
Hmm..I hadn't seen that one before. For me it is people making their hands into the shape of a heart.

......over a pregnant belly.

nathancarter wrote in post #14325754
It's similar to selective coloring and multiplicity shots. Photographers hate it, but clients LOVE IT. I'll use those played-out, over-done techniques and I don't care if other photographers don't like it. You guys don't write the checks.

+1. I have my first wedding coming up so I'll probably use it then

Kronie wrote in post #14320877
This thread is no good without picks.....

And when you scroll through that page of Google Images, you see a tremendous amount of variation and creativity. Go figure. And it could be especially meaningful if the Bible verse captured has special meaning for the couple.

What the heck, it only takes a few minutes to get the shot. Whether or not the happy couple decide to order a print is up to them. It may be cliche' to us, but most people don't spend their lives looking at wedding pictures.

Scatterbrained wrote in post #14343588
......over a pregnant belly.

Yes! I was going to say that!

I have always hated heart hands even before they started showing up in every freaking preggo pic

Somehow, some way, I managed to miss this concept until a couple years ago, so it's still relatively new to me. I still kind of like it. Don't know why, I just do.

Having said that, I don't consider it to be contest worthy, or anything special.