Jul
18
Chase and I sometimes talk about “The Amy Winehouse Thing”. It was something that’d been in the back of my mind for a while, and crystalised with this picture. What I said about it was this:
“The angle is tilted, but not extremely, just enough to throw the viewer off. There are multiple light sources, working together perfectly to create the washed-out face that carries the “exposed character” look across with the bonus of smoothing the skin. Random concerned dude is in the shot just enough, without dominating the image.
With a little post, better set dressing and her chin up just a bit it’s almost a studio shot.”
Another almost-perfect shot was this one, and even when the woman is not totally on she is still almost there.
She’s not the only one, though some people are just made to be always on, but I think you have to be a little weird and around paparazzo a lot and you cross this divider, where you’re always on and everything looks like an ad shoot, and if something’s off, it’s clearly the photographer not stepping up.
