Tattoo shots are usually produced in colour, but as I was trying out my new monochrome camera I thought I'd give it a go and was pleased with the result. This is a pop-up tatoo studio at Sudeley Fantasy Forest Festival. I love pictures that tell a story, and I think this one does that. The client lying down on the left is having her first tattoo...she bravely allowed me in! I like the flow of the picture from the prone client to first one tattoo artist then the other, and finally to the arm being worked on. Of course you wouldn't normally leave a stray limb at the edge of the shot but I felt here it helped the story and gave the male tattooist a role. Just my view, of course.
This looks good, John. It's a bit different, for sure and a good balance has been struck between telling a story and keeping it simple. I feel this may have been too cluttered in colour.
Regards, Saul.
I think this works well enough in B&W. I personally am compeltely turned off by Tattoos and manged to deflect my children from such self abuse. This leaves me thinking that a tattoo studio is a seedy place possibly staffed by Hippies. While my view is somewhat prejudiced, your image does capture my view very well.
Dave
I'm totally with Dave on tattoos (unless it's Edinburgh :-) ).
I like this quite a lot, but I'm getting fixated on the depth of field - I think I would have liked it a little further forward so that more of her, especially the writing on her leg, was in focus, but I love how he's just nicely out of focus.
The one thing that keeps dragging my eye though are the sharp shoes of the client. They're too sharp and too nicely toned to ignore, but I don't really thing either of us wants my attention there. You could try cropping to 'just' remove the rightmost shoe which gives a square crop with the central tattoo artist on the left looking into the image where it looks as if she's both reading her instructions and listening to the bloke at the back. If I do that, then that completely sorts out the depth of field issue for me.
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Tattoo shots are usually produced in colour, but as I was trying out my new monochrome camera I thought I'd give it a go and was pleased with the result. This is a pop-up tatoo studio at Sudeley Fantasy Forest Festival. I love pictures that tell a story, and I think this one does that. The client lying down on the left is having her first tattoo...she bravely allowed me in! I like the flow of the picture from the prone client to first one tattoo artist then the other, and finally to the arm being worked on. Of course you wouldn't normally leave a stray limb at the edge of the shot but I felt here it helped the story and gave the male tattooist a role. Just my view, of course.
This looks good, John. It's a bit different, for sure and a good balance has been struck between telling a story and keeping it simple. I feel this may have been too cluttered in colour.
Regards, Saul.
I think this works well enough in B&W. I personally am compeltely turned off by Tattoos and manged to deflect my children from such self abuse. This leaves me thinking that a tattoo studio is a seedy place possibly staffed by Hippies. While my view is somewhat prejudiced, your image does capture my view very well.
Dave
I'm totally with Dave on tattoos (unless it's Edinburgh :-) ).
I like this quite a lot, but I'm getting fixated on the depth of field - I think I would have liked it a little further forward so that more of her, especially the writing on her leg, was in focus, but I love how he's just nicely out of focus.
The one thing that keeps dragging my eye though are the sharp shoes of the client. They're too sharp and too nicely toned to ignore, but I don't really thing either of us wants my attention there. You could try cropping to 'just' remove the rightmost shoe which gives a square crop with the central tattoo artist on the left looking into the image where it looks as if she's both reading her instructions and listening to the bloke at the back. If I do that, then that completely sorts out the depth of field issue for me.
Cheers, Des :-)