Friendly demon
Comments: 6
One of the more friendly-looking demons you’ll see. The less than satisfactory composition, by the way, is because the carving was behind a wooden trellis-like thing that I tried to avoid.
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Posted to Photographs • 2004.12.08 (Wed) • 19:34
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Posted by Richard 2004.12.08, 21:07
Actually I like the composition very much. Just out of curiousity, would you have liked to have pulled back more (wider shot)?
Posted by jh 2004.12.08, 21:49
I would have liked to get the bottom of his chin in, but that was right where the wooden frame was.
Posted by seriocomic 2004.12.09, 05:37
Great contrasting highlights and shadows. Really gives a 3D effect to this image. I don’t think you should be too unhappy about this.
Have you desaturated this?
Posted by jh 2004.12.10, 13:26
Yes, it was converted from a colour file. I used Fred Miranda’s BW Workflow Pro plug-in. You can use Photoshop’s channel mixer to convert to black and white and then use curves to adjust, but Miranda’s plug-in does a better job (or at least it makes it easier and faster, which is part of “better” for me). It can also make quite nice duotones, tritones, and quadtones, and has options for simulating film grain if you’re into that sort of thing.
The camera can shoot black and white TIFFs, but you end up with a file with which you have fewer post-processing options than if you shoot raw. I do notice, however, that you mostly have to have captured the frame ‘in black and white’ for the conversion to work (that is, you can’t just convert any colour image to monochrome and expect it to work).
I think that some people don’t exactly approve of converting digital to black and white, but this isn’t a really a discussion I’ve had with anyone (although I’d like to). I’m not sure that it’s possible to get beautifully lustrous prints from this method compared to traditional chemical processing, but I’m reasonably sure that one day it will be. On-screen, I doubt anyone can tell the difference.
This is not to take a digital-will-kill-analogue stance at all. In fact, my preference (up to the point where you dump poisonous chemicals down a sink) is with traditional photography as far and black and white goes.
Posted by Eric 2004.12.20, 15:57
Would that happen to be a Shisar?
Posted by Lilliam 2005.01.03, 18:04
I don’t know how artistic or whatever you were trying to be with this photo. My web-accelorator makes it look like crap, but I can still appreciate it, I suppose. It feels like it was extremely cropped and I feel trapped. But, hey, deamons are supposed to make you feel trapped, right? Beautiful shot.
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