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An Ex-Mannequin? An Ex-Machina? She seems to have already superpowers... :)
To the previous double exposure I added some textures (Analog Efex 2).
No more light only darkness.
No more her; only madness.
Tormenting, reflecting him.
Shadows shroud the mannequin.
From a poem: “Mannequin” by Michael John Griffiths
or Sisyphus Takes a Break
Mostly out of curiosity, I downloaded the Reddit app and signed up. Much of what's on there makes me cringe or shake my head, but I've been spending time at their Photoshop subreddit. I've been learning some things as I look at what folks have submitted for critique. Composite photo montages are extremely popular there. Something many submitters ask is how to make an element blend better into the scene. Commonalities seem to be not paying attention to light sources, and not knowing much about shadows.
That prompted me to set up some things and shoot photos at various times of day to study contact shadows and cast shadows. This is one of the shots.
Mannequin's right foot is off the ground so there isn't a contact shadow there, but there are at the other foot and where parts of its body contact the ball and where the ball contacts the shelf.
I thought at first this would be a simple set up, but then I noticed that there is light reflected from the shelf upward onto the ball and mannequin, from the ball to the mannequin and from the mannequin to the ball.
New Mexico is a strange place for shadows. We're so high in elevation that in direct sunlight, shadows here don't behave the same as at lower elevations. The edges are more crisp. There isn't the same fall-off of density as the shadow gets farther from that which is casting it.
I had to shoot this photo before the sunlight directly hit the shelf in order to see the gradations of density.
Painters study light and shadows, but rarely do photographers. And if folks are going to be trying for photorealistic montage, they also need to know about light and shadows. As a result of these shadow study photos, back at Reddit I've been recommending that the compositors set up an action figure (all of them are guys in their teens and twenties it seems) and a desk lamp to see the directions that shadows are cast from a source and the gradations of density between contact and cast shadows and within cast shadows.
TUNE!! Porcelain Black - Mannequin Factory
Oh, they gonna love us
Oh, they gonna love us
We're beautiful, beautiful
Oh, they wanna kiss us
Oh, they wanna dress us
We're beautiful, beautiful
We're all mannequins
Built in a factory
Yet another one table-top shot. This one is taken with Rodenstock Omegaron 50mm f3.5 enlarger lens. I find some resolution measurement for it from and from f4 it resolves 80 lpm from corner to corner. This one is taken wide open and cropped a little. I did another one on f11 and my old eyes do not see any difference in sharpness or contrast, just uglier bokeh.
This is taken from hand so any lack of sharpness you may found is my hand, not the lens :)
in my Etude Series ...
Taken Feb 28, 2017
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Why does this child mannequin have nipples and six pack abs?
That's just wrong American Apparel, but of course right behind it was a picture of Michael Jackson with a young boy...so I guess it fits : -)
Fukuoka City JAPAN / Sony α7R II × SUMMILUX-M 35mm F1.4 ASPH. / mokuu.cc/2016/10/post-2127.html / JG J0 04 009
In my Mask Series ...
Taken Feb 21, 2017
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The mannequins were made by the mother of the original store owner and date from the store's beginning time in the 1940s.
After a morning shopping in the town of Drachten, I finally found some Mannequins with heads and nice hair, clothes and make-up! Pity the window is reflecting so much
"Woodland mannequin"
Bois de Chevigny St Sauveur (Côte d'Or)
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