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Published: 2012-07-02 18:28:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 10807; Favourites: 451; Downloads: 312
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As consept steampunk is masculine, dirty and deformed movement while porcelain dolls are delicate, fragile, cute and excellent element.I want to take their contrast and work on this contrast's visual. To understand this contrast and express it
Photograph&Editing ©Yasemin Karaca
Place: santralistanbul, Turkey (1913, power station)
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"The crowds outside had been gathered all morning to see the dirigible as it would be brought out of the hanger. Staring off into nowhere, she stood awaiting the word from the Professor, to pull the lever releasing the pressure lines attached to the Gondola..." Is the impression I get upon impact.
The Paulson Lighter-Than-Air ship building company had been one that preferred women for employees; the Professor preferred them because of their insight, and intuitiveness in the building process. She had started here as a youth, cleaning the offices, and moved her way onto the building floor as a senior airship technician. The Professor saw more than just her doll like beauty; he saw the beauty of her vision into the future.
The vision is unmistakably Steampunk, and there is no doubt in the viewer’s mind, if the viewer has any knowledge of the genre itself. I went with a 4 here because I would have liked to have seen a "gear" representation somewhere in the shot. It is the only thing the vision is missing to make it complete.
The originality is a strong 5. As the author noted, the Steampunk genre is very patriarchal, and the Victorian softness of it has always taken a backset. Bringing the "Lady" up to the front, and allowing her to show strength control, is something that needs to be done much more in the genre. Look at Mina Harker in "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", she played a very strong role, ergo the general Steampunk population has shown that a woman’s beauty can be powerful and dominant as well.
The technique is well deserving of a 4 1/2. I would have liked to have seen the shot pulled back away from the model just the tiniest bit, and the gears I mentioned earlier included as the part of the backstory of the shot. The vision could have picked up a half-star as well if there had been a touch more backstory.
The impact gets a 4 here as well for the same reasons the vision and technique missed that half-star, the backstory. Everything is great; it just seems starved for more iconic representation of the genre.
Overall this image is great, heck I purchased a print for display in my girl’s room, so it can't be all that bad huh?
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First of all i am the not kind of person who like "Steampunk" stuff. More or less i have knowledge about this genre so i have to say somethings. At least the steampunk is much interesting than Sci-Fi for me e.deviantart.net/emoticons/s/s… " width="15" height="15" alt="
Composition is ok but it should be more better, since the model has a good suit, a fullbody shots would be more nice to see that everything she has got.
Anyways, overall accessorys, suit, binoculars etc. looks good and the model's skin well fit to title "The White Doll". T
he make-up, wig design and eye color looks really good. As for the backgorund, to be honest, its kinda poor. It should have good angle to view much more object and part of the machines. But then again its looks good and give us to clue about feature of this work.
Using natural light elements and adding smoke made the photograph even better.
I dont know this work wheter or not original. But no matter which is that, the photo give us what it wants to.
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I'm agree with you...
Kirin-chan's fullbody shots more beautifull :3
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So glad you made this Creative Commons Licence. The Australian SteamGuild just put it and some photos of mine in their zine. . www.joomag.com/magazine/antipo…
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Wow I love it, you've been featured in my journal!
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This photo has been rated a 8 by majority of votes in the Rate My Work Voting Polls, held in
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merhaba bu resmi TurkishCosplay ' grubuna eklermisiniz saolun
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Just purchased this, I will come back and critique it later on.
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Thank you so much ^_^ I'm waiting impatiently
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I know, I am doing both of them tonight.
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This is excellent. I think you are right, the contrast of the porcelain model (wow is she pretty!) with the technology is very good here.
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Hahahaha that was really funny comment 
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coompletely LOVE it~!!! i love the delicate contrast of her to the roughness of the steampunk~!!! This is AMAZING~!!
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Thank you so much for your kind words
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np sweetie, you more than deserve it
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I love it. She looks quite ethereal, which nicely contrasts with the outfit. She does look 15 though.
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Lol Thanks :3 It's only because of the make-up. I'm actually 20 :/
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20 is the new 15? Those big eyes certainly help.
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lol they do I guess, circle lenses.
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I really like your interpretation of the steampunk concept
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I'm agree ! All is great in this art ! I love the contrast between black and white !
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I like this photo the most, of all the photos, you uploaded from your project, yet. The light, the smoke, the model, everything looks so good.
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Thank you so much
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