Gavin2005.jpg
by dassilem

Comment by L1:
This is just as cute as a button. Love the lighting, the expression, and the playfulness...excellent!!! :)

Spooky.jpg
by dassilem

Comment by UNCLEBRO:
do you always stick your finger in the cats mouth when they yawn?
I do.
I even do it to humans.
But they seem to get more pissed off with me than the animals do :-)

Anyway, this is a great picture, I can almost smell her breath!!!
Technically: i think that if you have photoshop you could use levels and or curves to make the black fur even blacker.
and I know it's only a small part of the picture, but my eye keeps getting drawn to the top left of the photo and that "orange" block of color.
the right hand side of the photo is two different colors, but it's not distracting, it works well.

That's all :-)

Spooky.jpg
by dassilem

Comment by mist:
Wow what a big yawn!

Tacy.jpg
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Comment by eschelar:
Easily the best of the bunch. When you get everything else right, you always find something more to work on.... Well I do anyhow...

Feels a bit soft to me and also - like the others - a bit too cool, particularly in the skin tones.

Tacy.jpg
by dassilem

Comment by bood:
I think this a a lot of potential and needs to be processed to provide the colour, contrast, sharpness and individual touch. It'll be interesting to see the finished result. Good luck!

Tacy.jpg
by dassilem

Comment by glad2badad:
Of the 4 you just posted I like this one the best for lighting. The others don't seem quite bright enough. Was she positioned differently than the others?

Could be this cruddy work monitor...

Nice work overall however. I need to venture down this path eventually. Thanks for sharing.

Everyone should take time to Stop and Smell the Roses.....at least for 19 days!
by dassilem

Comment by Artifacts:
Yeah... yeah... that is what I was doing. Smelling the roses. Yup, that was it all right. :)
The way you included the image of the "lost photographer" from the side and behind the foreground rosebud was nicely done. You composed the image well.
Challenges like this gives us a chance to do blends like that of the face with the flowers. DPC does not often provide those opportunities and we need to practice those things in order to make them look natural.
This looks like a composite, but I thought that was not allowed for the challenge. I'm curious to know how you accomplished it. Anyway, in a strait composite I would have brought in the whole face image in, pasted it into its own layer, rotated it to be correct and then used a mask to block out upwanted background as a non-destructive editing technique. That makes it easy to adjust later for the few remaining spots around the far eyebrow and a couple other small places where there is still a bit to much white that you missed. They can be taken care of with cloning too but the non-destructive method is better since it lets you bring back things you cut out and is easier to recover with.
If you have Photoshop you can further apply its lighting perspective feature to match the angle of lighting with the flowers on the face layer and with a little brightness, maybe a little sharpness matching and some slight color correction you can make an exact match with the flowers that will fool anyone. - Steve

Everyone should take time to Stop and Smell the Roses.....at least for 19 days!
by dassilem

Comment by zarniwoop:
the pose seems unnatural to me. as does the lighting. somehting with more warmth would have worked much better for the feeling you're trying to evoke.

Everyone should take time to Stop and Smell the Roses.....at least for 19 days!
by dassilem

Comment by tate:
hey --- is that the real thing?

Everyone should take time to Stop and Smell the Roses.....at least for 19 days!
by dassilem

Comment by Judi:
Now this is downright clever.