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Bleeding Heart

Bleeding Heart



Model: Emma Phoungto
HMUA: Kavetta Taylor
Dress Designer: Jennifer Chou

Model: Emma Phoungto
HMUA: Kavetta Taylor
Dress Designer: Jennifer Chou
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cameraCanon EOS 5D Mark II

settings Aperture f/4.0 ISO 160 Shutter 1/320 

upload_dateAug, 2013

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TregonningPhotos
 
TregonningPhotos August 30, 2013
wonderful, well done to all
CanadianOutlaw
 
CanadianOutlaw August 30, 2013
Stunning shot, love the title !
srimanta
 
srimanta September 01, 2013
excellent shot...love it.......
vsidles PRO
 
vsidles September 02, 2013
creative, stunning and WOW~ love everything about this!
adoptedone
 
adoptedone September 09, 2013
Beautiful!
onyanita PRO+
 
onyanita September 13, 2013
superb...congrats on the award!
Asha_Ilana
 
Asha_Ilana September 13, 2013
incredible! love it :)
hazelmansell-greenwood
 
hazelmansell-greenwood September 13, 2013
Outstanding work , well done. well deserved.
jleiweke
 
jleiweke September 14, 2013
Congrats!
westi PRO+
 
westi September 15, 2013
Stunning!
Mauwa
 
Mauwa September 15, 2013
This is just fantastic!!!
JoanieP PRO+
 
JoanieP September 15, 2013
Stunning
kellybean96
 
kellybean96 September 29, 2013
oh my god this is beautiful.
DonTX
 
DonTX October 16, 2013
What an incredibly beautiful piece of work this is! Fantastic.
gunners42
 
gunners42 November 04, 2013
Wow...great work - Congrats!
KellyGregory PRO+
 
KellyGregory November 04, 2013
Interesting creativity love it!!!!
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fotogalmexican November 14, 2013
now that's a dress
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JHPhotos November 14, 2013
Nice!
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Blue-Maddness February 08, 2014
Lovely, Well Done!
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clareparsons June 01, 2014
Absolutely Beautiful
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riciriv June 08, 2014
gorgeous....and creative...
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gondmagdi July 25, 2014
awesome !
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verity November 22, 2014
Amazing shot, breathtaking
FightGuyPhoto PRO
 
FightGuyPhoto December 18, 2014
This is amazing. Love the whole thing. Bravo.
CreativeI
 
CreativeI January 31, 2015
Show stopping quality work. The compositon is Fab. Love the contrasting fair skin with the blood red flowing gown, and lipstick. Of course the spiral stairs was top choice! This must have been hours worth of work. Very eloquent! : )
BrandonH
 
BrandonH March 31, 2015
Stunning photo! voted!
SarahBowmanPhotography
 
SarahBowmanPhotography May 15, 2015
I also love this!

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Tags

#bleeding #branches #country #dramatic #dress #editorial #emma phuongto #fashion #fine art #heart #model #portrait #ranch #red #spiral #staircase #tree

Behind The Lens

Location
This image was taken my family ranch in Lexington, Mississippi which was destroyed in 2010 when a tornado hit. The staircase was actually in my house before that. I had it installed by a pond behind where my house used to be.
Time
Around 2-3 in the afternoon
Lighting
This was shot in natural light with two large reflectors to the subject.
Equipment
Canon 5D Mark II with EF 24-105L
Inspiration
It would be the staircase. Visiting the site where the tornado hit I was always drawn to that staircase. The sheer power the tornado had to snatch it from a concrete slab overwhelmed me. It landed 500 yards away from where the house stood. I knew I had to create something beautiful with it so I had it installed between my favorite oak and the pond behind my house. The dress was designed by Jennifer Chou, https://www.etsy.com/people/ASAPBay? , who can create anything you can imagine.
Editing
The bulk of the post processing for this image was done to the dress. The original dress was green for another image of mine, Power. I needed to change it to red to represent the story. For me, that was not easy. I wanted the perfect shade and depth of red which took dozens of color adjustments in Photoshop.
In my camera bag
Canon 5D Mark II, EF 24-105L, Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM AutoFocus Telephoto Zoom Lens, two primes, 85mm and 50mm, Canon 580ex II flash, Pocket Wizards and several large reflectors are always in my bag.
Feedback
This image is about the story of my loss. When you are trying to speak such emotion through a photograph, use colors and contrast as your words. Light and shadow and texture also.

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