I like it for what it is -- a portrait of a woman. Ir's a genre, which for the most part, seeks only to please and flatter the subject. A lot of artistic skill is necessary to arrive at a result like that. I'll bet Mona Lisa had some zits as well, but Leonardo was smart enough to leave them out of the portrait. Paul On Dec 12, 2009, at 6:03 AM, Bob W wrote:
>>> >>> http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/pictures/newer_still/4233.html >>> >>> I'm trying a few post processing techniques out. >>> >>> Techie stuf: >>> K7, 70mm LTD. ISO 100 f/8. >>> Illumination from one head in a beauty dish. >> >> The portrait itself is lovely - beautiful girl, demure little >> smile - but the processing is a bit much for me. Too >> "artificial" for my tastes. I don't feel like I'm looking at >> a woman, but rather a computer enhanced face. I feel that >> "she" is lost in the processing - it overwhelms me just a bit. >> >> Hey, everybody else seems to like it, so maybe it's just me... >> > > Frank, > > You are not alone. If you saw a real person who looked like that you'd think > she had some kind of disease. > > Mind you, you'd think the same about La Gioconda or Les Demoiselles > d'Avignon, so I guess it's all a matter of convention and taste. > > Bob > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
