No, I don't expect this one to do well ... But I thought it was funny and very fitting to the challenge -- and I am ready to be pleasantly suprised by a high score.
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The title is from the movie 'Phenomenon', in which there is a scene of the leading man (John Travolta) is waiting on the leading lady on a hill top with a blanket laid out. She asks what he a man is expecting when he is this prepared -- to which, John replies "Not expecting ... just hoping".
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Multiple shoots adjusting lighting, exposure and placement. I ended hanging the black table cloth on the wall and using a black foam board for the table 'cloth', with a light shining up from below to back-light the flower to give it extra seperation. Two 500W halogen work-lights placed high and to my right shining at a spackled ceiling provided the indirect lighting.
Exposed on the brightest spot of the candles, stepped up by +3 stops to move them back to the far right of the histogram.
In PS:
Slight crop on left and bottom.
Levels: Blackpoint selection -- brightest point of the black backdrop to give a consistent black background. (this was why I needed the backlight.) Whitepoint selection on the brightest point of the candles to bring them back to where they needed to be.
I'd say you have this one down to a science with all the light there. Its really standing out good from the back. The colors are perfect and its all in focus. I just have to go out and buy me a bag of those kisses now.. My favorite and I have been wanting some caramel filled for the past two weeks...I think this a great composition. You have done so good with all the technicalities of shooting...
Anyways I have tried a halogen bulb, you say work lamps, by this do you mean the silver ones with clamps? They are a bit bright it helps to point them up at something white and have the white sord of act as a light reflector... That is what I was trying in this shot..
Though its way overexposed and I can tell it now. I have started understanding more by reading your comments on your shots. Your descriptions on your process are very much in detail and helps to think about what I can fix in my camera.
Your picture has good color and is fairly well focused and composed. However, I don't like the theme at all. Hoping you "get lucky" and manage to have sex with a woman because of candy and roses is so degrading to women - like the only thing they are good for is sex. This kind of chauvinistic attitude really upsets me.
I like the humor in this, but it could be better. Lighting the candles would be a start. Otherwise, the lighting seems a bit flat. Something moodier, more from the side, would have added to the idea.
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