The 27th image for the 2023 Halloween Countdown
Day 27 brought us "Lantern". Another hard one I remember. This one gave me problems and I felt like I wasn't able to get it just right. There was a lot of checking the Iray preview and adjusting things. Even in the final Lightroom adjustments, I recall struggling to get it where I wanted it to be.
I remember having several lanterns, but not sure how to set up a scene. Lanterns in a foggy scene came to mind and then adding assets to round out the look. I went with these plague doctor outfits because I had not used them before and wanted to give them a try.
Once I had everything in place, there was a great deal of popping into Iray preview, then jumping back to textured view and back and forth to get it right. I am not certain if I ever really felt like I got this one right.
I did like the bloom around the lanterns and I believe my premise was that they were searching for someone missing in the foggy night.
It is as if they heard a sound offscreen and are focused on going in that direction.
Overall it is an okay image, but I felt like I spent too much time on it for so-so results. I think I like seeing figures in my images, or else a still life of a lantern might have been fine. I like trying to have some sort of story being shown.