Day 7 - Somber Speculation
by shalrath

Comment by Art Roflmao:
Mask the hand and adjust levels slightly - but I think it's fine. Love the hair! :)

Day 7 - Somber Speculation
by shalrath

Comment by Judi:
Yes...I want to use YOU as a model. You have an incredible face that would fill the job in photos that I am dying to do. Not everyone could fit that bill.

Day 7 - Somber Speculation
by shalrath

Comment by chele:
wow, i really like it! i love the pose, moody, and your hair is awesome!

Day 7 - Somber Speculation
by shalrath

Comment by sea2c:
Very nice and moody shot. A little dodge around your eye might be nice but it's just MHO.

Nice shot!

Day 7 - Somber Speculation
by shalrath

Comment by fotomann_forever:
To fix the white hand, use a soft light layer and a soft black brush at about 25% opacity. Carefully paint the hand darker on the new layer in soft light mode and then adjust opacity to suit your tastes.

Day 7 - Somber Speculation
by shalrath

Comment by acrotide:
I like the lighting, especially how your hair stands out against the black background.

If you really want to fix the hand, perhaps a bit of burning to darken it. I don't have PS in front of me, but I'm sure there's another way by creating a new layer, changing the blending mode to darken the whole photo and then using a layer mask to paint away the rest of the photo so only the hand is affected by the darkening effect.

Regardless of the hand, it's still a great capture!

Day 7 - Somber Speculation
by shalrath

Comment by sevilduvarci:
very nice use of negative space. i like the lighting.

Day 7 - Somber Speculation
by shalrath

Comment by Jaded_Housewife:
cool color you got for the hair in this shot. almost fiery and yeah you could probabaly just make the hand a little mroe blueish to match the face with selective color or color balance and then mask off all of the other areas. I SWEAR I wont favorite this..... but I wanna. lol. I'll contain myself.

Day 7 - Somber Speculation
by shalrath

Comment by Makka:
I like the composition in this shot. It's framed nicely. Well done!

Day 6 - Excess Baggage
by shalrath

Comment by Louis:
Awesome. You've got some pretty emotive stuff in this challenge that works really well. Looking forward to the remaining entries.