This is why God made PhotoShop! Ever had the urge to touch it up?
BTW, I see Lady MacBeth with longish (but not too long - 1" from cuticle)
somewhat pointed (classy, but not macabre) nails the color of venous blood.
Positioning of the hand (and index finger) would be critical as you say.
Hey, I better shut up. It's your shot and your imagination and I'm
intruding...
Regards,
Bob...
Give blood. Play hockey.
From: "Aaron Reynolds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Ted Beilby wrote:
> >
> > When I was taking Basic Photography in jr.college, I feared the days
when we
> > had to critique. I soon came to learn that these were the days I learned
the
> > most about my work. These critiques were not just, "I like that one
best.",
> > there were times when my shots were ripped apart by the instructor and
other
> > students.
>
> When I was at Sheridan, critique days were occassionally nerve-wracking,
> especially when I had gone over my work and at the last minute found
> some kind of glaring flaw that it was now far too late to do anything
> about. :)
>
> I too had some really tough experiences, and at the time I didn't
> appreciate them as much as I do now. I find myself recalling criticisms
> of my own work before pressing the shutter button and rethinking the
> shot accordingly, and I think that this has made me a better photographer.
>
> I remember particularly clearly the day I was ripped apart over
fingernails:
>
> The assignment was a promotional image for MacBeth, featuring the faces
> of the person or persons in the image (it was second year portraiture,
> after all). My image, which I was really quite proud of, was a fairly
> tightly-framed head & shoulders shot of a man with a woman behind him,
> slightly out of focus, hand on his shoulder, whispering in his ear.
>
> I didn't notice her fingernails. They were rather ragged and chewed,
> and what had apparently been a very nice nail-polishing job was chipped
> and scratched up. I tried to justify it to myself later, saying that
> Lady MacBeth would have had roughed up, unladylike fingernails, but
> really, I don't think she would (but I have some pretty specific ideas
> about MacBeth ;) ). And to be honest, my original Lady MacBeth didn't
> show up, and moments before the shot I grabbed someone from the hallway
> (and who in all other respects was fabulous, and better than the model I
> had chosen originally). Anyhow, I didn't see the fingernails until the
> shot was up on the board being critiqued, and they were the first thing
> that the instructor saw, and he went so far as to praise and criticize
> the positioning of the hand at the same time, because I had very
> carefully placed it to seem caressing and controlling, and it really was
> the focal point of the image...and then the image was knocked down by
> her fingernails.
>
> I still think that it was one of the best images I made while I was at
> Sheridan, but I can't look at it without seeing those fingernails...and
> I'm certainly not going to let something like that mess up another shot
> of mine.
>
> Also, while at the time I found the instructor to be maddeningly
> detail-oriented, I think now that he was possibly the best instructor I
> had while I was there. He taught us respect for our own work (poorly
> cut mats or dust marks could completely do in your assignment) and he
> taught us to be very very very very picky.
>
> Anyhow, just thought I'd share.
>
> BTW, the MacBeth image was shot on the Mamiya C33 that I later traded in
> to help finance my Pentax 67, so now this post is not OT. ;) Oh, and
> APX 25.
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