Ooooh, nice description, Mews. They are tremendously dark in this series. I am sure the lighting helps do it. Although I did adjust the contrast of these quite a bit (see reference shots), I didn't do anything to the colour of this scene. It is lit a sort of yellow-gold, which has changed not only the colour of his skin but his eyes.
I was agreeing with Este in the previous entry about the darkness of his eyes, "deep, dark, fathomless pools," she thought they looked. I agreed, his eyes are so dark in most of the frames they could be brown or black. Only in these last close-ups can one see they are blue, and only because I brightened them. Its a very, very intense effect, with the emotion zinging out of them.
Yes, the make-up is done beautifully. Once I lightened them I could just see with my theatre-person's eye the touch of colour on the cheeks and the darker stuff on the upper lids. It was perfect. I felt all swoony imagining myself the make-up artist, lucky soul.
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Date: 2006-04-08 01:08 pm (UTC)I was agreeing with Este in the previous entry about the darkness of his eyes, "deep, dark, fathomless pools," she thought they looked. I agreed, his eyes are so dark in most of the frames they could be brown or black. Only in these last close-ups can one see they are blue, and only because I brightened them. Its a very, very intense effect, with the emotion zinging out of them.
Yes, the make-up is done beautifully. Once I lightened them I could just see with my theatre-person's eye the touch of colour on the cheeks and the darker stuff on the upper lids. It was perfect. I felt all swoony imagining myself the make-up artist, lucky soul.