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Flaming June by Lord F. Leighton
Flaming June by Lord F. Leighton
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Challenge: Free Study 2010-06 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon PowerShot Pro1
Location: home
Date: Jun 30, 2010
Galleries: Emotive, Self Portrait
Date Uploaded: Jun 30, 2010

 Me in the chair, so could not have done this without Phillip my awesome guy. My B-day is in June so I took a liking to this image when I saw it on Craigslist and now it hangs by the bed. I had been thinking about reproducing this for some time. It turned out to be an interesting effort and learning process. This was a lot of work!! The most time consuming part was finding the right material for the orange 'dress'. There's nothing like it in this town. Organza is too stiff and not drapey enough, just slips and slithers around. Everything drapey enough was not transparent enough. I'm guessing the original was a very thin raw silk. They didn't have that anywhere here, and certainly not in orange! So I got some gauze by the yard and Rit dyed it.
this chair doesn't totally fit as identical but I think it fits the form of the structure. I knew about the distracting highlight on the chair arm, but, didn't see it till editing and efforts looked too faked. Then ran out of time.
The alternate version

Statistics
Place: 120 out of 341
Avg (all users): 5.8647
Avg (commenters): 7.2857
Avg (participants): 5.7030
Avg (non-participants): 6.3750
Views since voting: 5471
Views during voting: 325
Votes: 133
Comments: 11
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 07/10/2010 05:57:13 PM
Great stuff, bea. You convey well the soft dreamy look of the original. I think the black frame is redundant.
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 07/08/2010 05:16:04 PM
wow, how did this score under 6??
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 07/08/2010 01:06:46 AM
Very lovely.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/07/2010 11:21:29 PM
This is amazing! You obviously put a lot of time and effort into creating it. Hope it ends up at the top! Good Luck!
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 07/06/2010 10:41:46 PM
wow, that's a spooky good copy. If you really want a challenge, try Manet.
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 07/04/2010 09:46:36 PM
I have always loved and gave a print of flaming June to a friend of mine named June. I think you have paid great homage to the original in this wonderful rendition.
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 07/04/2010 08:03:51 AM
Well done. Lord F. would approve.
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 07/04/2010 04:48:32 AM
interesting composition and beautiful colors. don't agree with the border
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 07/03/2010 06:27:32 PM
wonderful rendering of this image - the tones are right on the money, I just wonder if the levels could be adjusted just a bit to give it more life
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 07/01/2010 11:16:20 AM
There's a great deal to like about this painterly photograph, but the face is rather dark and soft, and the highlight on the right of the chair is quite distracting.
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 07/01/2010 01:39:49 AM
Magnificent reproduction.
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