I've been fooling around with actions lately and I really wanted to try the draganizer action. With that in mind, I got this idea.
I started by getting my wife to paint a black line down the centre of my face. Because my nose is kinda crooked and I have a bump on my head, the line didn't look to straight, so I used the rectangular marquee and the clone tool to make it perfectly straight. It doesn't look like face paint, but that's the look I was going for. I then did various adjustments to get the look right in the light side of my face and ran the draganizer action on the other. I don't know how well this will do, but it's always fun to fool around in photoshop.
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Light and dark, maybe, or clean and rough, but I'm not seeing anything particularly good or evil about either side. Title aside, this is well composed, executed and processed.
I love the clarity and effect on this pic and it is a nice photo but.. if you maybe just made the 'evil' side look more evil (photoshop maybe?) it would have made the 'line' stand out a bit more.. that is only my opinion..:)
Nice, I wonder if it wouldn't look even better without the black stripe. I would have also tried a symetrical composition, that is centered and rotating the face counterclockwise for a perfectly vertical midline.
Impressive job on the editing. I like the implication that light/good is less real, the imperfections polished away, no furrow of worry in the brow. Really thought-provoking image.
That said ... not sure it isn't just a bit of a shoehorn. I can just stretch my mind around the idea that the effect of the line is the subject instead of the physical line I see, so I'll buy it.
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