in seclusion

thebeginning · Jun 23, 2006

hidden behind the veil...

Christie Photo · Jun 23, 2006

Wow. Let me say that again... Wow.

The only critique I can offer is consider toning down the two hot-spots in the foreground... the one stipe on the shoulder and the highlight on the fold.

Pete

danalec99 · Jun 23, 2006

Fab!! :thumbup:
I really like your take on this. You think outside the norm!

Is that a 1600/3200 or a plugin?

mysteryscribe · Jun 23, 2006

Here is a weird statement... everything that would ordinarily turn me off about a portrait makes this work beautifully. Very very nice job.

thebeginning · Jun 23, 2006

thanks you guys!

Good suggestion pete, thanks!

daniel - it's actually just PS noise, but selectively...I did it mostly on the midtones, like grain, and i performed some extra unsharp masking that was too small to affect the image detail, so it just made the noise/grain more noticeable.

markc · Jun 23, 2006

I think I'd prefer it if the focus had been on her eye, but I still like it. It is a bit odd having the veil in focus and her eye sharpened, but her nose out of focus.

saulmr · Jun 24, 2006

:hail:

... Dunno what else to say. :thumbup:

Luminosity · Jun 24, 2006

markc said:
I think I'd prefer it if the focus had been on her eye, but I still like it. It is a bit odd having the veil in focus and her eye sharpened, but her nose out of focus.

Gotta agree with Mark here. I love the image, it's powerful and haunting. Yet, that eye just doesnt sit right in this photo, it is sharp when the rest of the image is out of focus and grainy. Now, there aint nuttin wrong with grain shweetheart, just so ya know, but yeah, that eye just reaches out and grabs ya in a creepy way here.

Again, though, love it as a whole!

elsaspet · Jun 24, 2006

Wow, that is gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!

thebeginning · Jun 24, 2006

markc said:
I think I'd prefer it if the focus had been on her eye, but I still like it. It is a bit odd having the veil in focus and her eye sharpened, but her nose out of focus.

you have a good point. It's not sharp in the original, and I didn't try to bring out sharpness in it (aside from some levels and contrast on the eye itself because it was in the shadows, but nothing big)...I sharpened the whole image after the resize, and you can 'make' things seem sharp that were slightly OOF in the original. in other words, it would be OOF in print. thanks for pointing that out though!