Claudio, I hadn't noticed that Martin was responding to you ... I read the thread in a hurry earlier. "Faint trace of irony" seems like a great description.
Claudio, I hadn't noticed that Martin was responding to you ... I read the thread in a hurry earlier. "Faint trace of irony" seems like a great description.
?? which pictures are you looking at? I couldn't find any against photographic backdrops?Originally Posted by Martin Miller
In the ones I did see, the apparent saturation seems to come from having lit (?) the subject against a darkening (smoke) or darkening/dusk background.
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Tim, I'm referring primarily to the single-individual portraits. It is very clear that the quality of light is different for the figure and its background. I don't know how he made his images, but their appearance could be effected by desaturating the backgrounds and warming the color balance in photoshop. I mentioned the possibility of photographic backdrops because these images strangely have the look of dioramas. Of course, it could also simply be a mismatch between the light quality of the backgrounds and that of the frontal flash, but there seems to me to be a mismatch in image quality at the grass line behind the yellow-suited individual, for instance, that first attracted my attention. In any event Shambroom is an an experienced photographer and I credit him with intentionality with his lighting effects. Whether intentional or not, this lighting gives an eerie quality of unreality to what otherwise might be taken as a strictly documentary image.
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