This self-portrait was one of my more interesting shots because I had to experiment quite a bit with my actual positioning and the amount of time the shutter needed to be open in broad daylight. When I achieved these things it was surprisingly easy to experiment with the outcome though everything got significantly harder when it came to post-production. It was difficult to splice the two images together whilst caring for details such as reflections and shadows. Once I got over that small hurdle, I discovered that the solid and transparent figures would have to be colour managed separately due to different exposure times. However I got over this and I'm happy with the final outcome. The 'soul' figure showed some emotion here compared to my previous image, he seems like he wants to know what's happened and appears to be genuinely concerned. I think the image is well composed and framed and my main issue is the quality of the f'dead' figure. Due to post-processing it somehow came out grainy and with a dirty texture though this is only noticeable from up close and doesn't detract from the image at a reasonable distance.
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