Forum: Photography

Subject: It this finished or what else?

PhrankPower opened this issue on Jun 12, 2002 ยท 8 posts

PhrankPower posted Wed, 12 June 2002 at 11:49 PM

I've been working on this for the last couple of nights, and now I don't know if it's finished or not. I tried mixing in some textures in the background, but it took away from the simplicity of it all. Also tried various layers and options with the orginal color and that didn't do anything for me either. So, any suggestions????

bevchiron posted Thu, 13 June 2002 at 12:20 AM

This has a lovely soft effect & I do like the colours, the focus seems to be on the eyes but I feel there needs to be some variation in the blur to give it a bit more focus & less of a flat feel.... does that make sense?!

elusive.chaos

"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star...." (Nietzsche)

bonbon posted Thu, 13 June 2002 at 2:38 AM

I like what you did. i hope you dont mind that i played with it a bit. what i did was take 2 images,then sharpen one, while the other i toook into color pencil and did a strong effect on it. then i layered the 2 images together. hope that was okay with you. :)

PhrankPower posted Thu, 13 June 2002 at 8:47 AM

yea, that's interesting bonbon. I can see her eyelashes a lot better on yours. I think I'll play around some more on this tonight. And Bev, I didn't blur anything. It looks so soft due to the highly feathered cutouts, and low opacity levels on some of the layers. A BUNCH of layers it is, but no blur tool. Also, the original was a fairly sharp photograph. If anybody else has any ideas on what to do Id love to hear them!

Michelle A. posted Thu, 13 June 2002 at 9:54 AM

What a beautiful image Marshall! Your daughter? I also like what bonbon has done...seems to have more depth now.

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bonbon posted Thu, 13 June 2002 at 10:45 AM

well i took your suggestion bev as to the sharp and soft. so i guess it turned out pretty good lol. i tried doing a color enhancement but that made the hair more of a red than the blond and i assumed you wanted to keep to the origional colors. you have a beautiful daughter, Phrank... you might need a cannon on the porch for all the boyfriends!! :) psst: you can borrow mine

mysnapz posted Thu, 13 June 2002 at 1:13 PM

Nice image Prank some nice post work, If you are going to do more work on this I would focus on the eyes sorry no pun intended They seem very hard against the soft light feel of the rest of the image. :O)

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. Salvador Dali

Rohyphnol posted Thu, 13 June 2002 at 3:06 PM

wow, looks like it was done with color pencils...bob did a sweet job with it...good postwork phrank...