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Published: 2004-02-09 03:39:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 2679; Favourites: 61; Downloads: 494
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This is beautiful. I love the texture, her pose, the border, everything.
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I really love the effect and tone to this, well posed shot, the textures are great and the frame work gives it some punch, well done
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certainly something diffrent here.
I like it somehow.
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Stunning surrealism.
A bit like "steam punk" and a bit like fantasy.
Well done.
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oo. lovely LOVELY photo.
with the dress, and the gasmask.. and the photoshop work was done quite well.
marvelous peice you have here, my dear!
ps.. 
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You really developed this in an actual darkroom? Chemicals, red lights and all? Wow, thats damn impressive!
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brilliant! how did u make the circular frame thingy though?
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I love the mood. It's also great how you mixed the old style with the modern. (Hence the dress,the cincher,the gas mask) Nice framing job as well.
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Pretty dope image. I love the desaturated, grungey, painted, look to it. Interesting model as well.
Are you shooting with that Yashica?
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This is quite brilliant. Made me think of tunnel vision.
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after craking my head as to how i can do that pic in photoshop, thinking it was all handmade, i read you did it in photoshop...
anyway i love this pic
especially the info on the cameras
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Dayvid, you are amazing. The care and precision you put into your work is inspiring. This is a lovely piece. I'm adding it to my faves.
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trond said "I like this because it's great" and you can't argue with that...
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this is starting to get a feeling...cant wait to see the print...should look kick ass...
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yeah! brilliant. very eyecatching indeed. bravo. a print would look very impressive!
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Well, i'm agree with agonybliss, the dark border is a bit too antagonistic with the photo...but it still a fav for me.
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you think it might be a bit much? the vignetting effect i added in photoshop just was not doing it for me, i wanted to add something a bit more gritty.
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Yeap maybe a bit much but i know when you pass to much time on a piece youn need oxygene and to start some new works, anyway you can still rework on it in a few times (if you want it, of course !)
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I really liked the first one...it seemed more open..still really lovely though!
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eek, you're making me nervous... i just took this down to imagecraft to have a 16x20 made!
i think the print will look better though, you always get so much more detail and tonal range than on a computer monitor.
thank you =]
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ahh dont be nervous its lovely..
Let me know when your showing Id like to see stuff in print
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work in progress eh?
Well, I think the is quite interesting. The dress and shoes show innocence, but the corset adds a hard sexy edge. And the mask is menacing. All together it is a cool affect when you put them all together. Where is she jumping too/from???
~angel~
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you know i almost want to see this on a sepia tone... to take it to another time period and then having the contrast of the subject matter fighting against what you would expect from that time...
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thanx, boss... i was kind of thinking that, too. i'll give it a try.
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thanx... sometimes you tend to lose perspective on your imagery after you've been staring at it in photoshop for a couple of hours...
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The same for me.
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i think you're right, it needs a bit more punch to it. i'll give it a try. thank you =]
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nice..did you use a lighting filter or just use the burn tool on the outside layer..the effects neat..looks like a holga shot
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it's all photoshop... i used the selection tool with a feather of 250 pixels, selected the entire image, and then inverted the selection... then i filled it with black and duplicated the layer a couple of times to get the density that i wanted.
yeah, it does look a bit like a holga shot [ironic to use a $3000 camera to get effects i can get with a $20 one]
i think the effect is too clean for me... i want something a bit more gritty around the edges, i just need to figure out what exactly to use...
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maybe if you just darken by hand instead of using the select tool..i just ordered a holga. nice cheap way to mess with medium format
What are you shooting with btw..Im in need of a main new toy..
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i want a holga, those things look like so much damn fun... when cash isn't so tight i'm definetly going to spring for one, they're only like what? $20?
i shoot with a pentax 67II medium format slr [link] and a canon t-90 35mm slr. the pentax is a beast of a camera, but the amount of detail you get with a 6x7 image is astounding. not very good for hand-held shots, though, you pretty much have to keep it on a tripod if you're shooting anything under 1/500th of a sec.
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yeah the holgas are way cheap..I got a a modified one for 24.00 so a basic can be found dirt cheap.
I neeed to get a 35mm now. Everyones going digital and Im trying to go back to film. go figure!
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like the expression and darkness, good stuff +Favs
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