You know I love to deconstruct a photo. And I know from your previous feedback that you love it to, so let’s dig into another one.
I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again. It’s always been one of the most helpful technical exercises throughout my career to try to dissect the images of others, and so here I am encouraging you to take your shot at this image today. (If you want to check out some previous versions of this exercise, check here and here.)
So now tell me–yes YOU–how in the hell was this shot made? Overexposed mess? Studio shot? Test shot? A masterpiece? How’s it lit? The circumstances? The camera settings? Tricks? This one is a bit more abstract than previous shots, so I’m dying to have you pick it apart. Especially the purists.
I’ll reveal the details in a followup post. The person who gets the closest gets a signed book and a shout out and whatever else I can muster. Don’t be shy. Love to hear your thoughts.
Im going to say that this image was shot all with available light!! It looks as if the soccer player (a street enthusiast from Brazil/Brasil judging by his playing top) has been positioned just so that his head is in the shadow from say a building on one side of an alley, whilst the shadow from the roof on the other side of the alley reveals the texture on the concrete wall. The low perspective allows the player to be in shade while the ball catches the sun on the opposite side to that of the wall.
The focus point seems to be on the wall which leads to the suggestion that the player was shot in a separate fram, but i don’t think this is the case.
A little bit of post production to accentuate the over-exposure and there you have it. A simple image that doesn’t need to be any harder than it is!!
Thanks Chase.
I’m going to say it’s outside in very harsh sunlight. The player is up against a wall which is partly sheltered so his head is in the shadow and the highlights are blown out. The ball was flipped in post and there was editing in post with levels (curves?) and definitely saturation but with taking colours out instead of adding them and adding yellow. Also there was dodging and burning done to enhance the contrast between the bright highlights and the dark shadows.
Being a young, and inexperienced photographer, my guess would be that there is some kind of soft light to the bottom left corner of the frame, a harder light to the right of the frame, about a little bit above his shoulder. I’m also guessing that it is a studio shot with the back ground added in PP.
una light in front of the model (thats the left size of the canvas)
Ball was cut and flip horizontal
model have some effect created with levels and hue saturation ajustment
background its a texture with some filter in this case it lucks that have smart sharpen add plus some hue saturation
big part of the back ground was paint of white or eraze with or with out a mask having a first layer as white!!!!
Send me the book jejejej I just got it!!!!!!!
I’m skipping over other comments so I won’t be influenced. ‘Cause I’m sure others will be smarter than I about this. But I’ll bring my inside knowledge as a soccer player to bear, so maybe that will balance out.
The background doesn’t look like any kind of wall one would play soccer near, and the light doesn’t lend itself to being near a wall. So I expect it was shot and added to the player photo. And because there are obviously two light sources on the player (one photo left high, one photo right over his shoulder), I’m guessing it’s a studio shot. Also, that’s a crappy soccer ball and it looks underinflated, so not a game shot. Best guess is some sort of big soft box photo left, and a more direct light photo right, background texture added, and post-processed for a gritty, contrasty look and washed out space on the left.