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Post by red panda on Mar 30, 2018 10:17:57 GMT -5
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Post by lurleene on Mar 30, 2018 10:22:29 GMT -5
Not my favorite picture but like it enough. But maybe Adam just liked the picture and there is no meaning behind the selection other than he wanted to use it for now. I'm sure some will be voicing their displeasure on twitter tho so maybe he will change it. Or maybe not, lol.
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Post by bamafan on Mar 30, 2018 10:58:53 GMT -5
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Post by bamafan on Mar 30, 2018 11:01:08 GMT -5
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Post by Jablea on Mar 30, 2018 11:12:52 GMT -5
Source of photo in banner – Adam’s Facebook avi. His new facebook-avi puzzles me... if this pic has been taken by a professional photographer, the poor and documentary "quality" has been made on purpose. Direct flashlight straight into the face, as you can see on the reflection in the eye. There hasn't been used a lightformer because the flashlight reflection is only a tiny point of light and no circle or rectangle. The flashlight was too close to his face or the power was set too high so the colours have this washed out look and you can see no skin-details. He is standing way too close to the background so there is a very hard shadow behind him. Normally you put the flash a little bit above the head so the shadow falls behind his back and is hidden behind his upper body or you position the person farer away from the background or you use a separate flash just for the background... Actually it doesn't look like it's been photoshopped But if he likes this pic there most be something to it, that speaks to him... I personally am not too fond of it But there is more lighting than straight on, it's slightly off set or in the shadow his bangs wouldn't hang off of his forehead and we wouldn't hardly see the shadow. So how much is it offset? Seems more than you could get from a phone and his shoulders aren't raised enough on either side for him to be holding it. So that would seem to be a flashbar set on the side of a 35mm. (but it's also up slightly above the camera too. Maybe 5 inches from the actual camera. Oh but weird,why isn't his nose throwing a shadow on his face? Anyway the offset might be why the light in his eyes doesn't look like it's in the right place. It looks in the center on his right eye but off centered on his left eye. (left eye looks better to me) And since the light reflections don't quite match up he looks a bit cross eyed, that could come from the tilt too. And then there's the drops in his iris (I don't remember the name for it) The left eye again looks good in that they drop down in the direction of his cheek, but the right eye the drops are pointing to his nose. I don't know, maybe it's an I've Got my Eye on You message.
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Post by sizzling63 on Mar 30, 2018 11:40:36 GMT -5
Source of photo in banner – Adam’s Facebook avi. His new facebook-avi puzzles me... if this pic has been taken by a professional photographer, the poor and documentary "quality" has been made on purpose. Direct flashlight straight into the face, as you can see on the reflection in the eye. There hasn't been used a lightformer because the flashlight reflection is only a tiny point of light and no circle or rectangle. The flashlight was too close to his face or the power was set too high so the colours have this washed out look and you can see no skin-details. He is standing way too close to the background so there is a very hard shadow behind him. Normally you put the flash a little bit above the head so the shadow falls behind his back and is hidden behind his upper body or you position the person farer away from the background or you use a separate flash just for the background... Actually it doesn't look like it's been photoshopped But if he likes this pic there most be something to it, that speaks to him... I personally am not too fond of it I hate to over-interpret based on one picture but it doesn't give me the warm, fuzzy Adam feelz this time. I keep coming back to it though to look at these eyes... I can't say I don't like it. Adam may have picked the picture out of the hat as he liked it at the moment, or he may want to say something.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2018 11:41:27 GMT -5
I just have to chime in on the photo. I actually love it! Like the hair. Like how blue his eyes are and how they stand out. I like the starkness of it. To each their own. Same! I was trying to think of what it reminded me of and realized it was a production office - years ago - where they used to pin up polaroids from auditions. Also against white background and bright almost overexposed. Such a contrast from the glossy careful headshots performers or their agents provided, and not just aesthetically
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Post by girldrummer on Mar 30, 2018 11:49:56 GMT -5
His new facebook-avi puzzles me... if this pic has been taken by a professional photographer, the poor and documentary "quality" has been made on purpose. Direct flashlight straight into the face, as you can see on the reflection in the eye. There hasn't been used a lightformer because the flashlight reflection is only a tiny point of light and no circle or rectangle. The flashlight was too close to his face or the power was set too high so the colours have this washed out look and you can see no skin-details. He is standing way too close to the background so there is a very hard shadow behind him. Normally you put the flash a little bit above the head so the shadow falls behind his back and is hidden behind his upper body or you position the person farer away from the background or you use a separate flash just for the background... Actually it doesn't look like it's been photoshopped But if he likes this pic there most be something to it, that speaks to him... I personally am not too fond of it But there is more lighting than straight on, it's slightly off set or in the shadow his bangs wouldn't hang off of his forehead and we wouldn't hardly see the shadow. So how much is it offset? Seems more than you could get from a phone and his shoulders aren't raised enough on either side for him to be holding it. So that would seem to be a flashbar set on the side of a 35mm. (but it's also up slightly above the camera too. Maybe 5 inches from the actual camera. Oh but weird,why isn't his nose throwing a shadow on his face? Anyway the offset might be why the light in his eyes doesn't look like it's in the right place. It looks in the center on his right eye but off centered on his left eye. (left eye looks better to me) And since the light reflections don't quite match up he looks a bit cross eyed, that could come from the tilt too. And then there's the drops in his iris (I don't remember the name for it) The left eye again looks good in that they drop down in the direction of his cheek, but the right eye the drops are pointing to his nose. I don't know, maybe it's an I've Got my Eye on You message. After looking at this photo for a while a couple things came to mind. I thought of a person who is a first-time viewer of Adam's Facebook page. I thought of how many people, Glamberts and non-Glamberts, are used to seeing Adam kind of glammed up. His posed photos like this one usually show him with some make-up and hair that is pretty styled. But this one looks very "average guy" to me. Stripped down. If I had never seen Adam or only knew a little about him from long ago, I might get a new perspective of him from this photo. I know it's just one picture. It will be changed after a while like the others. Kind of nice to see an "in-glammy" picture every once in a while. He has many sides.
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Post by girldrummer on Mar 30, 2018 11:52:03 GMT -5
But there is more lighting than straight on, it's slightly off set or in the shadow his bangs wouldn't hang off of his forehead and we wouldn't hardly see the shadow. So how much is it offset? Seems more than you could get from a phone and his shoulders aren't raised enough on either side for him to be holding it. So that would seem to be a flashbar set on the side of a 35mm. (but it's also up slightly above the camera too. Maybe 5 inches from the actual camera. Oh but weird,why isn't his nose throwing a shadow on his face? Anyway the offset might be why the light in his eyes doesn't look like it's in the right place. It looks in the center on his right eye but off centered on his left eye. (left eye looks better to me) And since the light reflections don't quite match up he looks a bit cross eyed, that could come from the tilt too. And then there's the drops in his iris (I don't remember the name for it) The left eye again looks good in that they drop down in the direction of his cheek, but the right eye the drops are pointing to his nose. I don't know, maybe it's an I've Got my Eye on You message. After looking at this photo for a while a couple things came to mind. I thought of a person who is a first-time viewer of Adam's Facebook page. I thought of how many people, Glamberts and non-Glamberts, are used to seeing Adam kind of glammed up. His posed photos like this one usually show him with some make-up and hair that is pretty styled. But this one looks very "average guy" to me. Stripped down. If I had never seen Adam or only knew a little about him from long ago, I might get a new perspective of him from this photo. I know it's just one picture. It will be changed after a while like the others. Kind of nice to see an "in-glammy" picture every once in a while. He has many sides. Meant "un-glammy" of course. Darn auto-correct.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2018 12:07:44 GMT -5
I just have to chime in on the photo. I actually love it! Like the hair. Like how blue his eyes are and how they stand out. I like the starkness of it. To each their own. Same! I was trying to think of what it reminded me of and realized it was a production office - years ago - where they used to pin up polaroids from auditions. Also against white background and bright almost overexposed. Such a contrast from the glossy careful headshots performers or their agents provided, and not just aesthetically Yes, sort of like model collages for a show. ... maybe a test shot from a photoshoot or audition to set lighting, exposure, and color saturation.
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