A pet peeve
cclesue
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As an old product and portrait photographer some things irritate me. If you want to make a figure look alive you must make the eyes look alive. A "film noir" in one or two product images might work but unless the product is lighting, does little to sell a figure.
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but we have still not seen the Peeves and their dforce fur
must be a holdup in Q&A
The eyes: Yes, I spend a lot of time on the eyes. They must always look like they know what's happening in the scene. I see so many blank stares. Just ruins the mood in the image.
I hear this complaint a lot but never any specific remedies for the problem or links to galleries images where the eyes are deemed 'alive looking' by the complainant.
I suppose I should explain alive looking. First if possible do not hide the eyes in the shadows of a sunken eyesocket. If you are trying to give a film noir effect remember even the eye in the shadow probably will have a catch light. Second provide catch lights appropriate to the scene lighting.
Study photography both commercial and specialist in portraiture. I have several books on the great B&W works of the likes of George Hurrell and thought I could recomend a web sight with examples but the web does not reproduce the small things a large print reveals So I recomend Books with large images.
Is this about product promos, images in user galleries, or both?
Oh, thanks for that name. That fellow, or someone, has a web site named after him with a gallery of some of his portraits. And looking at his portraits and the eyes I'm going to seem to be contrary but I'm really not being contrary - comparing those Hurrell portraits to the high res DAZ Studio renders of today the problem in the DAZ Studio renders with regards to realism isn't lack of details but in having too many details and aren't spot on 100% correct. You'd be better off going with the softer less detailed DAZ Studio renders to emulate the softer less detailed Hurrell portraits. The DAZ 3D models eyes have sufficient details and accuracy to look as alive as the yes in the Hurrell portraits already but the lighting has to be right.
https://georgehurrell.com/gallery/
ah here is your other pet peeve
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/426356/pet-peeve#latest
Never, under any circumstances, pet the peeve. They WILL bite you.
Certain types of perves will too.
Maybe he got another peeve to keep the first one company. After all, the subject is A pet peeve, and not The pet peeve. Probably has a whole bunch pooping all over and smelling up the place.