In the Studio

[JAS_Photo]

Michael has a show coming up in a few weeks. He has a loft studio in an old warehouse that he works in. I wanted to try an environmental portrait of him and a desaturated, grunge look is what I was looking for. I will most likely work on this some more but here is the general idea. I also took a few more 'conventional' type photos but this is the one I want to work out first.

[tomorrowstreasures]

Hey raiven - for that desat grunge look-----if you have lightroom 2 scott kelby suggests in his book 'the adobe photoshop lightroom 2 book for digital photographers' to go to develop mode, basic panel...drag recovery, fill light, contrast, clarity and vibrance all the way to the right --- 'you want a super sharp image with really vivid colors, but overall a desaturated feel' so next, you drag the saturation almost all of the way to the left -until saturation has a hint of color left. --- this brings out lots of detail. then - add an edge vignette.

the bit at the top - the see through to the next space over is really distracting to me - i would crop that out.

other than that - i think you have a winner here!!!

[jlabel]

Great picture. You may want to photograph him at work instead of just posing

[tirediron]

Hmmm... liking the treatment, not quite so sure about the composition. "Environmental portrait" notwithstanding, it's rather too symetrical for my taste, that is, the subject roughly centred between two paintings. I think I would prefer to see the LH side cropped to about the ladder which would focus more attention on the subject. I agree with having him working, or at least doing something. As is, it's not bad, but I think it would be stronger if he wasn't looking directly into the camera.

[Marko]

Nice work!
I very much like this shot and think it's a good environmental portrait. I agree with T.I. on the placement of the subject, just a wee bit too centered. I like the tones and treatment here except on the subject who looks a tad too green to me.

Everything else I really like including the view into the next 'space' from the top. I would not crop it. hope that helps- Marko

[JAS_Photo]

A variation of the first.

[AcadieLibre]

I really like what you did with the top photo, the second one is nice but the pose in the first one makes it work very well.

[JAS_Photo]

THanks for the comments, everyone. Very helpful.

[kat]

Really nice treatment. The first pose is defintaly better but loving that starbucks...oh how I miss the city life!

[JAS_Photo]

Lol, Kat I took his coffee away from him and made him hold a paintbrush in the first photo.

The small piece on the wall is a work in progress, the one on the easel is a finished piece. He actually works with photos hung on the wall rather than on an easel.

Here is the 'Mom Ready' photo we took: