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Model: Alyona, from Kazakstan (In Singapore for assignment when I shot her...)
Hope you'd like it! Full view is recommended - there are a lot of small details in this one...  More works featuring Alyona... (and other models) are available from this journal link: [link] Or feel free to browse around.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Re-Update: I have put back the older photo... hehe. I actually like the bumpy wall... it's the texture that I love, and it's one of the anchors as well - to show the model shoved up against the wall... it goes with the tight crop to cast an edgy feel... Anyway - I'm doing this second update because I'm getting two camps of people, some loved the bumpy wall, some actually think it's a distraction. Some trying out - after 4 layers and 6 hours later, I ended up with two files... Oh well... I was rather unsure if the wall really looked okay. I've actually fixed the wall once to remove the large patches and even out the texture, but it seems that the remaining pattern is too strong, winding up as a distraction to some. So on the second edit, I've toned it down. It's become barely visible but not totally gone, minding that posterization artefacts can appear in the dark patches if I hid the entire texture all. Special Thanks to  for bringing me to the "wall pattern issue" and  for confirming it, it's been a great exploring experience for a learner like me. Thank you and everyone who's given their feedback to me, I appreciate it a lot. © Copyright Notice: [link] |
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I can't decide if the texture on the wall behind her helps or hinders the photo.
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"There is happiness for those who accept their fate. There is glory for those who defy their fate."
Hmm... now that you mentioned it... I am thinking of removing the texture, but retaining the shadows... I think I can still anchor the feeling that she had her back up against the wall with the shadow cast by her arms. Do you think that would work better?
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This is the burden of being self taught, I don't know these phrases...
I agree with your thoughts about the wall by the way.
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"There is happiness for those who accept their fate. There is glory for those who defy their fate."
*me thinks I caught the darkroom bug...
Well, the range of colours (called gamut) that sRGB can display are actually very limited, so incidentally, some of the colours I've set for the colour toning fell out of the "gamut", and those colour tones were replaced by something else... and it looked like sepia when I tried to export it for web (which looked ugly) - I threw a colour filter layer over in order to emulate colours that are closer to the tone I was trying achieving (would have to hide that layer for printing).
Feel free to ask anything you want to know - I was taught some basics of photoshop like (where the buttons are, and some theory), and I picked up on the rest through lots of experimentation...
I wouldn't mind developing one and sending it over (after I fix the wall though) ...
p.s. too poor this month - poor enough that I don't have to file taxes...
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