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Hah! This'll teach them to draft me onto the Recognition Dinner Committee.
They were going to do boring old cards with the date and time on it... for a Hollywood themed party!?!?! I think not.
My new, more betterer concept is 11 X 17, printed in black and white on a nice movie poster stock, and will be delivered rolled and tied with film-strip ribbon.
For the photography, we grabbed a lady from our content department, and made her dress up in about $100 worth of prop clothing from the local costume shop, and, using a shop light, took some photos in one of our spare rooms. The "red" carpet and the spotlight background were done completely in Photoshop. It doesn't come through in the optimized graphic, but there's a scan line texture over it to give it that "it's on TV" look.
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Looks like a drag queen....mabye check out some 1930's posters for design ideas to make it look more "Hollywood".
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They were. Yes. But looking at it through fresh eyes, I can see the wisdom of the above posts. I'm trying one of the other poses we did and reworking the lighting a bit.
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I think that looks a lot cleaner and the flares are more subtle and natural to me. There, but not intrusive. Maybe its just me, but shouldn't there be some more lightness to her left hand/arm? Kind of a counterbalance to the light shaft?
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Looks like something for a Drag Queen Bingo fundraiser... hmm we might use this for Stonewall this year.
The second version looks good but I prefer the original pose with the second version.
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I think the second pose definitely looks less drag queenish, but I've sort of consigned myself to the fact that it's going tobe hard to get away from that totally when you've got someone wearing a fake blonde wig. The dress doesn't exactly bring out her feminine shape, either.
This is why professional photographers and professional models get paid.
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I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but women you barely know that work with you and have just been asked to put on a frilly dress so you can take pictures of them, get more and more nervous the closer your hands get to their boobs.
But yah, I should've. It didn't look that straight when I was shooting the pictures.
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I like the first pose better. The first pose looked like she was in front of an audience, acknowledging applause. The second one she looks more like a streetwalker or a gangster's moll.
If this is a red carpet at a movie premiere or awards ceremony, I suggest some flashbulbs going off; they could take the place of the lens flares. How about a mic stand?
Another possibility is to have a background that looks more like someone receiving an Oscar (or taking a curtain call) on a stage. You know, with lights along the edge of the stage, a hint of an audience?
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