This photo is so unsettling.

“Beauty Queens” by Stewart Cohen

Here, he is a zombie(obviously). I was initially going to do subculture stereotypes(hype beast, hipster, geek, nerd, etc.) but I decided I should have a bit more fun with this and play around with make-up! I chose to use this shirt because it said the word “feed” on it, which is definitely perfect for a zombie. The whole shirt reads “feed the models” which I thought might be nifty to show the whole text since he is “modeling” for me and thus is considered my “model”, after all. But after careful examination of all the photos that I shot surrounding this theme I decided that this one was “the one”.  I cut and ripped the shirt up randomly to give it that nice rag effect which I still think looks too strategic but I just don’t have the eye for that sort of thing. It took a bit to do the make-up even though it looks really simple. I wish I some fake blood(or materials to make fake blood) and some cool Halloween scar make-up for added effect.

I did very little post processing in lightroom. I basically just messed with the filters and boosted the clarity but I plan on doing some extreme post processing in photoshop later.

Any constructive feedback is much appreciated. Hell, I welcome all feedback - even if you’ll say my photography is bullshit. That will just give me the boost to research, shoot, and work twice as hard!