(nude self portrait) Zebra

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

a little dark on the sides, but a very nice and very mysterious photo just the same. wonder what it looks like in black and white. Kevin

I think I agree with the first comment. Make it black and white. Plus, I think I'd try to move the camera further from the body (if your arms are long enough that is...)

I cropped it a bit, raised the contrast, and converted to black and white. I have to admit, I'm partial to color.

Katrina katrina Katrina

 

It is exquisite in black and white!!!

 

Kevin

I agree, the B&W makes it mysterious and hard to tell what it is we're looking at. That makes it very interesting. Continue this and keep posting, but try the black and white. It's a cool effect.

I suppose, like fine expensive wine, I'll have to start studying good black and white photography to develop a taste for them. Thanks for the support.

I'd looked at the second one first, this one has a harmony about it that is not present in the other. It's surprising what a shift in position can do to an image. It has a tranquillity about it but I still feel the 'waiting'. Oooh and the B & W one after cropping is much better Duotone might improve it even more.

Another vote for the b/w version. Its so...velvet-y.

Only other thing I'd suggest is trying to even out the shadow. I like the pattern on the left. Can ot be duplicated on the right? I also like the Black and white. But why not keep shooting in color and convert to B&W on the pc?

The symmetry of the body position together with the asymmetry of the shadow patterns is one of the things that I really like about this image. It gives a wonderfull dynamic tension to the image.

 

Regarding shooting on color vs B&W film: You'll get different results converting to B&W from a color image than you will using B&W film to begin with. I prefer starting with B&W film myself, but if you want to try more conversion from color, be sure to use Photoshop's channel mixer instead of simply converting to grayscale. Another option which you might find convenient would be to use Ilford's XP2 super chromogenic film. This can be processed by any color lab and yields good negatives for B&W scans.

Katrina,

very nice image, you have done a marvelous job!! yes the b&w is good but I still prefer the warmth that the color conveys, and feel that it adds a touch of mystery.!!! Can't wait to see more!!

This is a comment for all three - I like the sweatshirt nude and this one - especially in B&W. The other in the series doesn't do much for me, I think because of the angle of the shot. And ignore the individual who "types with one hand."

 

Even though the sweatshirt pose may have been "done to death," as someone pointed out to me regarding a project I'm developing - "maybe, but it hasn't been done by you!"

 

Good work; keep at it!

PERSONALLY i FIND THE TWO VERTICAL LINESGOING UP AND DOWN YOUR BODY DISTRACTING FROM THE LINES GOING HORIZONTALLY ACROSS YOUR BODY. oTHERWISE FINE!!!

The color is fabulous. That gold against the light skin tones is very, very nice. Reminds me of the cinematography of Gordon Willis. I actually like the darkness of this.

 

Good work.

 

Steve

i normally like B&W, but with this one either works. i could do withough the 2 verticles, as someone else said, but don't find them very distracting, and perhaps they help the flow away from the viewer. try dodging out that line [i believe a specular glare from the edge of a floor?] between the legs, it IS distracting, particularly in the color version.

This is a tiger-like version of Kat - waiting in the half-light to pounce on unsuspecting passers-by! I like this.

 

I am fascinated by blinds and how sunlight, dawn and dusk, through the cracks (as Leonard Cohen says: there are cracks in everything, it's how the 'light' gets in) creates striped light and shadows on skin, walls, floors etc.

 

I'd like to see a shot of you from the back lying horizontally on the floor on your side with the blind-light/shadows paralleling your spine, bum-crack and leg gap. You could then do this from the front as well as some in which you oppose the light at right angles.

 

I think I need another tablet!! ;-)

This photo is perfect. If it'd be shooted with a BW, it would be something totally different but very good again.

8/8 for the color version, 9/9 for the black and white. I don't mind the 2 vertical stripes at all. They add interest (look a little like suspenders to me). To turn the B&W version into a 10/10 I would try to erase the bright white line in the background and maybe delete the white Zebra line closest to the camera. Anyway, great photo.

I love this shot! It speaks so much. I love the angle and everything about it, I can't quite figure out what exactly it is but It has something extra to it. A rare thing to happen in any photo because it goes beyond the photo itself completely

love, love, LOVE the black and white version of this!!! Intense, wild and brilliant! Well done.

Although not a digital fan, I must stress the very original conception of this really interesting work.

Kat, great shot I like it in color too. There's just eough color to make it interesting.

I have to add a vote to the color. I think the B&W lacks the depth that the color one does. I'm a fan of B&W, but not in this case.

 

Nice shot...

COLOR,COLOR,COLOR,COLOR,COLOR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!