Yay, it’s October! Let’s start your week off with some gouged eyes! Our friend here made the mistake of trusting a random sign he found in the street and didn’t bother to call until after he did the deed. Unfortunately, he has no way to put the eyes back now. Hopefully your week goes better then his.
We made resin eyes for this. I’ll track down the videos we followed and post them later. My SFX assistant also used a modelling wax and scar blood for this plus SFX blood. Originally, her and I argued about using liquid latex as I wanted to minimize photoshopping out exposed areas until she pointed out the point of this exercise is to challenge my abilities at photo processing and photography as it is to challenge her abilities at special effects. She was right, so we went with her approach, and it worked out.
I shot most of these photos by the way. Blind as the SFX was over my eyes. I had my remote hooked up and palmed it. The one thing I did forget was to set my camera to a 2 second delay so I could push the button and quickly hide the remote. I had the music playing loud so I couldn’t actually hear my assistant moving around – she had fun with it.
We used a three-light set up, one strobe up front with a softbox and a grid. One strobe off to the side with a grid. One speedlight over head on a boom stand. In hindsight I should have had the lamp in the background on the other side of me and on so it would give the illusion of the light coming from it. I forgot about it, but it turned out fine.
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