Theodoros Fotometria
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This business is doing really well and they are ultra demanding for their catalogs! ...Lets have a cheerful chat here! ...the subject is both ultra demanding to photograph, as well as open for jokes...
Actually I'm not very satisfied out of this Charles... (they are!). The colour is accurate alright, but they insisted to use the cover from another shot because it presented the nature of the wood there too (it was a test shot done in their premises in natural light where the cover is coming from). The rest has been done in my studio and I tried to convince them to use the original cover since the nature of the wood was already presented (there the cover doesn't show nature detail)... but you know what they say: "the customer is always right" ...even if he is wrong.Nice work. Wood is surprisingly difficult to photograph. But straight lines make it easy to cut out of the background.
Hello,
I wondered the extend of the retouching involved in that case. And also the "cultural element" in such items and the way you adapt in photography and /retouching.
It looks overly polished so I wonder if it's a requirement on the maker's side (varnish) or if it's has been asked in post-production?
Also the background is very "neutral" (not to say sad) again, is it a requirement?
I have never been asked to retouch coffins (I would have no problem with that).
So I just wonder.
Here they make coffins made from wicker/willow or sea grass (I think it's the right term) to ease the degradation process and be "earth friendly" (the dead are already hearth friendly but that's another story)
notice the more "cheerful" approach (and the cut is less straightforward)
I remember a time when coffins where made to last "forever". Hopefully someone just noticed that "forever" is an illusion
Sorry I didn't crack any joke... Couldn't find any.
For $600 you can't beat these for going out in style:
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/photo.day.php?ID=52081
I want one in the form of a Mini Cooper S, with me in an upright sitting position, one hand on the wheel the other on the shifter and a wild look of exhilaration painted on my face, then take it to a field and torch that silly concoction...Now, that's style!
This business is doing really well and they are ultra demanding for their catalogs! ...Lets have a cheerful chat here! ...the subject is both ultra demanding to photograph, as well as open for jokes...
But Chris... you're still young! OTOH, what you describe doesn't create any mysticism... Nahhh.. I prefer "Dracula stories"!
Oh, I don't plan on an early exit, just want to have some fun with the exit.
Hi Theodoros,
I think the wood looks really good here, but I personally would put a shadow underneath the area under the coffin that is lifted by the legs, and a darker background with a gradient to help ground the coffin. As is now, it sort of just floats and to me looks a little odd.
It's got a shadow Maggie, just a bit of it... The requirement was anything but to ground the subject. "Floating" is much more spiritual and attractive for the possible customers... In Christianity it relates with a "trip to heaven"... Maybe if the order was from someone living in "Carpathia mountain", then it could be "nailed" in the ground.