Was back in boone to visit and decided to do a photo shoot with the lovely julie, a good friend of mine as well as a small running theme in my portfolio. I was trying to think of something cool for the soft focus challenge and a window light portrait came to mind. I then thought of the idea of having her sad next to it and so came the crying shot. It was quite dark where I was so I'm lucky to have this sharp. The reflection ended up being even more than I orginally anticipated. I used a reflector directly off subject to the left to fill in where the window could not. We put a little mascara in a water bottle and a tad bit of water, shook it up, and dripped it from the side of her eye to create the tear. Editing, lots of cloning out small imperfections, a little burning to accentuate the tears, dodging the eyes, sharpen and a probably a bunch of other stuff I now forgot about. I didn't like it for soft focus, I am really pleased in general.
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The strangeness of this photo sneaks up on you. I keep wondering if there were other things you could have done to make the reflection seem a little out of wack. Still, much enjoyed.
avg vote, the makeup and lighting gives the sense of broken heart but her eyes looking up sort of deters from that... would have liked to see her eyes looking down towards the rose.
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