I’m starting work for an ongoing photo project that focuses on censorship, thought control, and the like. The theme is book burning. I have done one shoot so far. My challenge here is that the picture is partially lit by the fire from the burning book, and partially from the strobes that I used. I had forgotten to bring my flash gels, so I just shot with bare flashes. I’m curious to see how y’all interpret this photo. Maybe it looks OK in this one. Though I did do some more photos with a book bonfire where the fire is contributing more light to the photo.
@patdavid, I keep getting a “file not authorized” when I try to attach the raw to this post. I’ve tried with a .CR2 and a .cr2 extension and errors both times. I will upload to another place and post link in following message.
Using photoflow here to change the white balance only for the model (so as to match the light coming from the flame. Left her fingers cold though!) and cropped to emphasize the book burning part. Only these two changes. 0U4A5826.jpg.pfi (32.3 KB)
Book Burning Is Evil versus This Witch Is Casting A Particularly Nasty Spell: A Delicate Balance, Or Excuse To Go Edgy?
Edgy Ember film sim from the “Creative Pack”
RawTherapee 5.4-dev
Midnight approaches and so it’s timely to enter the realm of the burning souls, ja ja ja {low-fi echo, more like a can in an alley}. As always thank ñu’s @Stampede for the file and everybody enriching our visual organizmss.
I don’t like this image; at many different levels… and that presented me with an interesting challenge: how to touch the warts of the witch in a way that could let me sleep without nightmares?
As primary potion, photoflow; BTW @Carmelo_DrRaw phf’s crashes hard when hitting the crop tool (mac 10.13.6 latest phf continuos build). In here I tried to deal with a “bizarre” lighting and set the foundation for a good aquelarre. Mira la brujita con su verruguita, eya mama sapa kema libru
the onto gimp to use g’mic basically. As colours was not happy of me, shifted themA bit with the MCU digital panel driver screw cork, then the usual and Provia 100F (what a mind fuck good colour science these guys achieved, every time jar dropped, long live the colour engineers!!!) but not on her face… to avoid sun burns. Little angling, little cropping, little grain and before the sh constrain (fast fucker too ).
Looking good, and I love your editorializing! I’ll be working on a whole series of book burning pictures, so all these different interpretations are really helpful.
Thanks for posting your g’mic settings. I was not familiar with the PCA mixer. I’ll have to look at that some.
sorry, can’t explain in detail the workflow, has been messier than usual. Anyway at least 4 exports from rawtherapee then mixed together in gimp.
Oh, and shrinked 5% orizontally, look more witchy this way
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and so it’s timely to enter the realm of the burning souls, ja ja ja {low-fi echo, more like a can in an alley}. As always thank ñu’s 
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