When art model Eugenya offered to do a creative shoot, I was struck by the similarity of her profile to that of Mme. Gautreau, the subject of John Singer Sargent's 1884 oil painting, Portrait of Madame X [1]. She agreed to work on a "recreation" idea that I'd had bubbling on a back-burner for about two years.
Note: four of the images in this series are rather NSFW, but the index images are all too small to be a problem, so this page is safe to open ... http://goo.gl/HPOiSz The original inspired-by image is #1, followed by 11 variations. K-3, DA* 16-50/2.8, ISO 200, 1/125th, on tripod AF540FGZ in 42" umbrella softbox, high camera-right AF540FGZ with Honl 1/8 grid, 45 degrees camera-right, focussed on face Lr + Ps Comments are of course welcome. -- 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Madame_X 2014 is the 130th anniversary of the original. -- -bmw -- 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.
