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Ethereal-Mooncat β Vamp Geisha II
Published: 2008-05-24 20:01:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 1410; Favourites: 38; Downloads: 0
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The second of a series of edits based on images from a recent photoshoot in St. Mary's churchyard, Whitby with Azadeh Brown : Alt Model and vocalist with Gothic Lolita band Razorbladekisses [link]PHOTOGRAPHY & PHOTOEDITING
Ethereal Mooncat [link]
MODEL
Azadeh Brown [link]
DA STOCK ARTISTS
(paper textures) zombiestock [link]
(text brushes) flordelys-stock [link]
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This whole idea is amazing, great work!!
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You're welcome
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Oh another amazing piece!
You made the picture so antique and almost surreal.
But I can't quite tell what the pattern on her kimono is. They look kinda like biohazard signs but that doesn't make sense to me...
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Thanx. 
Unlike many of my photomanips the model here isn't cut out from a plain background and added to other material. She actually was stood in the graveyard (of St Mary's church in Whitby) when we were doing the photos. The antique paper background,& textures / text brushes were added afterwards, of course.
*chortles* I can't quite see the kimono patterns as biohazard symbols myself... but it would be cool if they were! They were simply abstract oriental patterns, as they appeared on the actual kimono, I havn't tinkered with them, other than slight distortion due to elongation of the figure in PS.
Thanx again for this & the other comments. It's nice to get some intelligent remarks that go a bit beyond the usual 'awesome [full stop}' variety!
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Haha! Not a problem at all. I always feel silly when I post a random comment that doesn't really say anything.It's like it's just there...
What program do you use to edit the pictures like that and how long on average does it take? I feel like it would take forever.
I don't have any cool programs to work with. Just thet free program Paint that comes on most computers.
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Likewise.
Retouching a photo (adjusting overall colour, exposure, etc / softening or removing shadows / blemishes on faces, putting in hilights / lolights, etc takes half to one hour, sometimes longer if itβs a crappy photoβ¦ or the model ainβt wearing foundation, as mentioned elsewhere!
A complex multilayer edit can take me anything from 2 β 40+ hrs, 4 β 10 hrs being more typical. This partic deviation took about 5 β 6 hrs I think.
I use Photoshop CS1 (the original version of CS).
If you canβt afford CS (it is fucking expensive)β¦ well obviously I certainly wouldnβt recommend getting a computer savvy friend to do you a pirated version with a crack program that would cost you nothing & work just as well, that would be stealing & stealing from multi-million $$$ corporations is a terrible wicked thang *ahem*. Otherwise you could look into a (legal) freeware program called GIMP, which is free software. At least it used to be, true freeware seems to be getting rarer over the last 2 or 3 years. It has most of the functionality of PS, including the all important multi-layer capability. Iβve only used it once very briefly but it seemed OK. Some ppl prefer it to PS (and not only βcos itβs free!). You could try searching for it on downloads.com [link] As I recall, like much freeware itβs not liscensed to Microsoft, so if you have a Windows OS it will issue dire warnings. These can safely be ignored, Iβve never heard of anyone having problems with GIMP. Unless you are using Vista which is like a fucking overbearing nanny that will slap your wrist & tell you not to be naughty if you even dare to try & load any freeware ever. Gawd how I hate Microsoft. If your on XP or Windows 7 you should be OK though.
Other than that Photoshop Elements is a low cost option to buy. It even often comes free with pc peripharals or relevant βhow toβ books. It doesnβt have anything like the full functionality of PSβ¦ but the essentials are there, including multi-layer capability.
If you just want to tweek overall picture colour / exposure, etc quickly & simply download a freeware image viewer program called Irfanview (itβs also unliscensed to Microsoft, so same as above appliesβ¦ but itβs cosha). Altho I donβt use the image adjustment feats much now I have PS, I still use it as my default image viewer: itβs sharper & more user friendly than the default Windows picture viewer in XP, and has some neat little extra feats.
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Thankyou so much!
I think I'll go for the free program first since I don't have a job...
Some people have recommended gimp to me before but I wasn't sure about going to a random website and downloading crap.
But thankyou again for all the information.
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Yeah, I know what you mean. But Downloads.com is a well known site, run by CNET, who are a massive international company who own pretty much everything that Microsoft doesn't. Such as Last FM for example. Actually dependeding on what sort of person you are that may reassure you or alienate you! It alienates me (Fat Cats are dodgy fawkers in my book) but I still use downloads.com and haven't had any probs with any software off of there. Still a good idea to scan the files with your anti-virus / anti-malware programs as soon as you download them though.
I pretty much stopped using Last FM when they bought it out though. Fortunately I got one of the last free Spotify accounts soon after, which is better anyway.
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Alrighty then, I'll definately check that out when I get the chance.
And again I say it: Thank you.
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Beautiful. I love the textures you`ve used on this.
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Lovely piece. I really like the textures, it makes it quite a spooky piece (yes- in addition to it being a graveyard shot)
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Thank you kindly. Have a cup of Tea...
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Yay, I love tea. Thank you very much.
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nice colour palette, reminds early photographs with lovely girls from Asia, indeed. Besides , as a typical woman, i'll always envy such models the contents of their wardrobe, heh 
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Thank you kindly for your words, and apologies for taking so long to reply. Actually I wasn't completely happy with the colour palette, and was going to noodle with it some more... but when the model saw it she was delighted with it as it was, and wanted to post it in her online portfolio asap, so I said OK. And it does seem to have got a lot of positive feedback, both there and here in my gallery. So, like a typical cat I let my lazy side win out over my flawed perfectionist side...
Yes indeed, Azadeh certainly has a lavish & exotic wardrobe, not to mention being an accomplished & extravagant MUA. We have another shoot scheduled for early July : in the legendary Highgate Cemetery in London, this time with a Vampyric Victorian Lady theme... and I did some shots of her & her sister (in gothic lolita gear) performing live with their band last weekend. The grrrrl is a walking artform!
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you're welcome
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is this for some kind of bootleg or something
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some kind of bootleg...? Wha?
Perhaps the phrase bootleg has a different meaning in your part of the world to what it does here in the Land of Eng? Over here it means an illicit recording of a live gig (or sometimes of a studio album or movie) that's then duplicated in some format (often with rather poor technical quality) for 'unofficial' sale / distrubution.
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Oh, like an album cover you mean? No, it isn't... just another edit. Altho' Azadeh is a musician... there's a link to her band's site in my 'artists comment' on this peice. The band (Razorbladekisses) do have a new album coming out soon, as it happens.
I'm going to be doing some live photos at one of their gigs on Saturday night... watch this space!
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...whoa. awesomeness
DAMN i wish i could do that!
incredible. like everything else you do...
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Oh, thank you kindly *tips tophat*
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Hey-Hey, I haven't heard from you in a while darlink : hows things?
Thank you for the kind words... there will be more to come in this series. I'm doing another shoot with the same model in the legendary Highgate Cemetery in London in July, also another cemetery shoot (this time much closer to where I live!) with another model in late June.
OMG, do you think that all these graveyard photoshoots are going to end up giving me the reputation of being a bit... Spooky? Oh dear, Oh dear... that would nver do!
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I don't find that it give you this reputation! personaly, I really like your work!
Continu your nice work! I support you like you support me !
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Oh, really 
Thank you *doffs tophat* Yes, indeed - if you ever get the chance to visit England, feel free to get in touch : I would be honoured to do a photoshoot with a model of your fine calibre! Until such time in the possible future, if you ever have any photos you would like editing - and can get copyright permission from the relevant Photographer - I would happy to do a photomanipulation of one of your pictures.
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i love the textures on this art and how the colors match very well i never tought red colors can blend well with sepia tones but you did a great job as always thats amazing.
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Thanx Chickabee!
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welcome mooncat its my pleasure.
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Thank you *tips hat*
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