One of the ways that helped me learn to create the kind of pictures I wanted to create from a technical standpoint was by trying to reverse engineer the work of others… work that was my friends, that was the photography masters, or, even just cool images I’d seen in magazines. I’d sit there for hours considering what might be at work. It’s a good exercise in trying to understand both the technical stuff AND it can inform the creative for sure.
As such, if anyone is willing to take some stabs, I’d love to know what you think is at work – front to back – in creating this image. Consider lighting, mood, exposures, set build or location, what direction I could be giving the model or anything else you think is relevant. I’ll tell you as much as I can recall about what is actually at work in a follow-up post and maybe kick out a high five or something else to someone who gets closest.
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Composite?, increased vibrance, decreased saturation, 100% clarity, shadow and highlight adjustments, and possibly a tilt shift to give it that wicked depth of field.
here's my wild guess…
taken at around 11am because of the long shadow which is probably cast by a very big tree since the girl is not casting much of a shadow. since this seems to be such a big light source, its most likely just natural sunlight.
the smoke is either the beginnings of a forest fire which you've started yourself for photographic effect OR you're atop a high hill where it's foggy even when it's almost noon.
taken at 85mm f4.0. postprocessed for vignette at the edges 😀
iphone, gaussian blur!
Hi,
Maybe a little bit to much of fill light.
use of a tilt-shift lens.
It depends why u want to use this image but the girl is to much on the left side.
Sorry for my poor english.
Regards,
Dim from EU
You dropped the camera and it snapped this pic. Nice work!