Tati Bruening performing as Contact Sports, Roseland Theater.

I think this one’s the best of the concert photography I had done recently. The smoke machine made for a bit of a challenge to shoot through, and this shot certainly isn’t good enough for my portfolio, but it’s good enough I could put it out here.

Thanks for seeing my work!

Haven't seen that haircut for awhile. Takes me back! Also, gotta love her hair-color with the all-black body suit. Killer look.

So what kind of music was this? (I need to get my Ableton fired back up one of these days)

She was playing a lot of hyperpop and works by others. Her music felt fairly standard to me, but her visuals were trippy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhHZa11TdX0

Woah cool! It's good to see what Seven of Nine is up to now days.

Never heard of Hyperpop; interesting!

It also reminds me a bit of remix artist "Pogo." Here's he's doing Disney's Alice:

~~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAwR6w2TgxY~~

You have been added to the Best of Lemmy: https://sh.itjust.works/post/67589939

Why? I got so many more works that were just better.

Natalie Portland

Dude, your shadows and the lines of white look like they were drawn on. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that.

Edit: Also, I'll try and add others if I can. I'm not familiar with your account.

Edit 2: Which one are you most proud of?

I think you're much better at this than you realize

I think this one's my favorite work: https://lemmy.world/post/37784660

Most of my vibe seems to be capturing busy urban futuristic vibes, and I've recently started putting emphasis on good concert photography, but I think I'm still improving in that regard.

She looks like Joanna Dark in this photo.

Welp, I’m gonna go play that now, at least to throw on some sims and a capture the briefcase map.

Makes me feel like I’m fourteen again!

Here is my opinion, and my opinion only. I like the concert pic even better and here is why. Note: I do see why you like the other one better because of your goals, but I feel that the concert pic is more artistic and quite beautiful. Not many pics make me go whoa when I first see it.

• It looks like an accidental renaissance painting.
• the focused light in the foreground and the misty background
• the white lines give a hint of other things back there and as I said, look like they're drawn on.
• the composition is elegant and follows the artist's golden rule
• it's an action shot that looks almost posed, but not quite.
• the colors (although, I know how hard it is for your fav pic to keep those night time colors)

Again, I'm telling the truth that I love this pic more than the first 20 on your profile and the one you chose as your fav. My guess is that you're not a fan of master's style works.

It looks like some kind of sci-fi cover art or something. Like a drawing or a painting, not a photograph. Surreal.

Alright, that’s fair. I really should try to silence the critic inside of me, she keeps art from getting out.

It really is striking.

You crazy. Put that in the portfolio yesterday ffs.

Hmm, I think there's potential in there...

Depends on what other shots you have though.

It's been like 15 years and I'm still amazed Disney hasn't taken out a hit on that guy yet.

Lol... truth
Fair-usage clauses, I guess?

(I have no fricken idea)

Hey sorry to pop this news on you🙌 but you might want to avoid sharing Pogo's work as he was caught being blatantly homophobic.

yea but did those have tits

pretty woman pictures were so common on reddit that some subs had to literally ban them as a subject

I mean, I’m a lesbian so I get it, but also there’s so many pictures of tits on the internet already.

Not good enough for your portfolio? Man!

I think you're being a bit self-critical. A little cropping makes it feel more balanced

It does have a Renaissance quality to it.

So many, but basically: not this one (until now).

I don’t know, I wouldn’t want to lose the light falling on the right of the white cloth. I think a square crop is the way to go for this one. (Yes it’s not perfectly square, I’m on my phone, best I can do at the mo. 😆)

Nice

Oh, ...OH?
Dammit, really?

I am just an amateur on my phone, but after seeing the edits I thought I also give it a try. I think making shadows a bit darker and getting rid of the greyness helps the atmosphere a lot.

composition is great but yeah that fog is a killer for the clarity.

I think you could include it in your portfolio though if included as part of an artistic expression of composition.

though, if you're an already established photographer it's wise to not include it.

great pic though!

this succinctly summarizes exactly why boobs always get upvotes.

sure I've seen boobs, I've even held boobs. but not those boobs.

I'll add something else, to me it's about the subject itself.

Obviously she's gorgeous, but the way she looks absolutely captured in that creative focus, consumed by her passion for what' she's crafting, oblivious to even the existence of a world around her, its so hauntingly beautiful... Like something private that I shouldn't be seeing, or that is so rare that I'm blessed to see it.

The shadows, the smoke, the contour - all of it play into this mysterious, even slightly mistique experience in a place one wouldn't expect it.

You were there, and certainly it was loud and dynamic and you were in a different state of mind.

For us, we're just seeing this fixed image, and the lack of context let's the mind fill in these details and make it more than what, to your eyes, it is.

At least that my take on it. Beautiful photo.

Mate! At first I thought this was a painting. I love what the fog has done here!

I've looked at the comments where people are cropping and adjusting this to "fix" it and I think it's better as the original, by far. The way the fog washes it out is a feature, not a bug. The cropping with the focus in the dead centre works - moving the figure to the right third might be a more traditional thing to do but this is good the way it is. The cropping also allows the red patch in the top-right, and the contrasting blue in the bottom-left to be part of the story. It's good the way it is.

Yikes the edits in the thread aren't doing it any favours... But the last one was going the right direction indeed, the fog isn't a bad thing but it just lifted all the shadows so much that you lose some of the atmosphere, so just bring your exposure down until she looks how you want and let the shadows drop into darkness with just a bit of detail still coming through. Do NOT also increase contrast a ton like the examples in this thread, keep your ratios similar as they are now just darker. Personally I would also make the shadows a bit cooler in tone.

What you see as my original post was the results of the decisions I made given the space and the lighting to work with. The original raw was much harsher than this.

I hope my choice of edits were alright.

Yeah it looks totally fine for a realistic/natural result, my suggestions definitely go towards stylizing it more but all that is a matter of taste. It's a nice click in any case!

Thought it was a screenshot from a cyberpunk game.

Hey, nice marmot.

I thought it was a gta style stylized loading screen image for one

Whereas that one feels technically impressive, this one I love. Different tastes I suppose.

Very true, a good picture of someone fully in the process of crafting something has a particular beauty to it even when one isn't attracted to the subject.

I've long felt there's something holy in nightlife, and this picture kinda draws out that feeling. The smoke reminiscent of early morning fog borrows its etheriality. And her look of devoted focus almost brings to mind hagiographic portraiture where the subject is entirely focused away from the viewer. She also just kinda looks like a priest in the process of blessing eucharist.

Amazing shot, it honestly looks like a religious painting. The fog lends etheriality like a pre dawn mist. Her devoted focus and general posture over the white clothed table is deeply reminiscent to me of the consecration of eucharist. And all this is made the better by it being a woman performing at a nightclub, a firm contrast to the catholic mass that it resembles.

I wonder if people came up to Seurat and tried out correcting him on the green on the lakeshore maybe needing to be a tad more vibrant, or it would have been better if he got the lady in the foreground with the huge bum a little more centered on the canvas.

I imagine if they did, he would have been well within his rights to whack them with his palette.

That seems like a pretty unhealthy work environment…

There's also that picture of your asshole, which is nice but not up to the level of either of those.

He bit me today. :(

There, there.

I've long felt there's something holy in nightlife

Do you mean that feeling, sometimes, where everything feels... strange? Like it's familiar but somehow alien, intangible - just a little bit eerie but incredibly fascinating, like it's not a part of the same "real world" that one experiences during the day...

No idea if anime is your cup of tea, but I felt that "Call of the Night" did a great job of capturing that feeling of the night in some of its early episodes.