The model likes the first shot so much it's her modelling portfolio avatar now. :-)
I might have smoothed the muslin background, but that would have doubled my retouching time (it's tricky to do right). When you consider times twelve -- forget it! As it was, I had created a Ps action to cut down the time quite a bit already. For this kind of thing I do need a new iMac. :-( Thank you, Attila. On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Attila Boros <[email protected]> wrote: > I prefer the first image, very good recreation of the original with a > strikingly similar model. Minor nitpick is that I'd try to blur the > backdrop. > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:42 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. > > -- > 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. -- -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.
