Would this pass as Low Key?

Can you C&C a first attempt at Low Key. Just roughly is it close etc?

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What's the exif on this?

Isn't the idea of low key to have really dark background and some of the subject in almost complete shadow? This gives a bit too much away. Also, is it noisy on purpose? or are you shooting high iso?

An example

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com …/chimpsinties/8​361561378/

To me, it looks more under-exposed than low-key.

Its just underexposed.

If your looking for a end product similar to the shot below you need to change up your methods a bit.

1. Black background and surface for the lens to sit on. Keep the background well away from the flash as it will help control any spill over on to the background.
2. Set your SS and ISO so that a flash w/ out the flash on provide a nearly black frame (the closer to black the better)
3. Add in the flash. For the shot below the flash was actually slightly behind the lens to prevent any further wrap around of the light.
4. Post processing. Drop the black levels, and then some selective editing to bring it the background to all black and/or control some light bleed.

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com …s/adammrugacz/4​426206452/

A big no then, thanks for the comments. must try harder.

silvrr wrote in post #15757215
If your looking for a end product similar to the shot below you need to change up your methods a bit.

1. Black background and surface for the lens to sit on. Keep the background well away from the flash as it will help control any spill over on to the background.
2. Set your SS and ISO so that a flash w/ out the flash on provide a nearly black frame (the closer to black the better)
3. Add in the flash. For the shot below the flash was actually slightly behind the lens to prevent any further wrap around of the light.
4. Post processing. Drop the black levels, and then some selective editing to bring it the background to all black and/or control some light bleed.

This is basically a spot on description. But No4 is the thing that'll get you out of bind. Get in LightRoom and drop those shadows right down

chimpsinties wrote in post #15757274
This is basically a spot on description. But No4 is the thing that'll get you out of bind. Get in LightRoom and drop those shadows right down

Hope you don't mind, but since you have image editting checked I took a few seconds (literally) and tweaked your pic in LR to give it more of a "low key" look: