band portraits Murder of Crows

A simple portrait for Dublin based Rock 'n' Roll band, Murder of Crows.

Magisterial use of the lighting. Beautiful portrait that favors the models.

I like it. Good profesional work. 6 6

looks like a heavy metal album cover

The format was done with a CD artwork inlay photo idea in mind. Lighting was from one standard 150W bulb, hand-held just in front of the band below the line of sight of the camera. Edits in photoshop were creating a duplicate layer, converting it to B&W using levels (making the B&W level quite contrasty) then making it around 20% transparent to let the erie slightly tweaked colours from the original shot come through.

Interesting effect the combination of lighting and photoshop got for you. There does seem to be an abrupt line in the dark area above the band members that is somewhat disturbing. Perhaps this is where your duplicate layer ended?

 

Depending on how much life you want in "murder of crows", it might be fun to try a similar shot but with a different light source - a fire comes to mind, which would give a warmer and more saturated, ghost-story-esque nature to it. But, since you went to so much trouble with the B&W duplicate layer in photoshop, I'm guessing saturation of interesting colors is probably counter to your original goal...

Chad> what kind of monitor are you using as I can't get that line to appear unless I pump up the brightness and contrast on my monitor

hence the problem with photography and the internet. sigh.

 

I'm using the built-in monitor on a 15" powerbook G4 (the newer aluminum one, not the titanium, but not the newest one with the "oops, you dropped me" sensor for the hard drive). I've calibrated it about as close as I can by eye, but have yet to buy a hardware calibration system, so it could be that my calibration is off a bit, and thus too contrasty.

That look like some picture I took with musical friend !

are they a hard rock band ?

they're very 1960's rock sounding, I've made them look more evil than they actually are :-)