My Silent Place

© Chuck S. Frizzell

My Silent Place

Uploaded: June 23, 2008

Description

This is a redo of "Girl without a Pearl Earring". I made changes after receiving Bill and Johns comments. I added a reflection the eyes, to add more life to them, I lightened the eye sockets using the dodge tool, reshaped the face, defined the hill in the background, and added the tree for more interest. I was going for an old cracked oil painting look.


ISO 200 - f4.5 - 1/60sec.





Comments

Chuck S. Frizzell June 23, 2008

6/14/2008 12:13:18 AM


Eugenio Diaz

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member since: 11/6/2006 Love it!
Excellent. Specially the colors and the PP effects. Great light also makes it very original.

6/14/2008 6:38:42 AM


Daiana Kelly

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member since: 5/27/2007 Very well done and beautiful!

6/14/2008 6:41:55 PM


Melissa Gurdus

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member since: 11/24/2005 Beautiful portrait with great artistic effects, Chuck!!

6/16/2008 8:18:17 PM


Chuck S. Frizzell

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member since: 5/16/2008 Thanks All, The lighting was the tricky part. The old paintings seem to have distinct shadow areas, and I tryed to capture that.

6/18/2008 11:24:11 AM


Colleen Farrell

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member since: 4/13/2004 Wonderful lighting and effects, Chuck! She even looks a bit like Scarlett Johannsen in the movie.

6/18/2008 10:19:55 PM


John C. Martin

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member since: 8/31/2007 Nice portrait but the eyes are a little dead, maybe a small catch light in them to pop a little. A litte less light on the front half of the face, short loop from the back side to the front instead front to back. The expression is a perfect fit for the mood.

6/20/2008 2:09:58 PM


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member since: 9/8/2006 Hi Chuck, I think you really captured the effect well but your lighting needs some work. Particularly because the effect seems to emphasize shadow. The dark eye sockets, hair highlight and neck shadow idicate that the light was mainly overhead. The type of look you were going for lends itself to a more Rembrandt-style lighting. Think about a directional light coming from the left of the photo at about 45 degrees and a reflector on the other side. This will open up the neck, eye socket and chin shadows. Also, I like the position of the left border but the photo could use some more space on the right. Finally, I don't know what that big dark mass in the lower right corner is and that makes it very distracting. I also agree with John that the eyes need some catchlights.

Bill

6/20/2008 2:54:19 PM

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Chuck S. Frizzell June 23, 2008

Thanks to John and Bill, I made some changes to my first post(See attached).
Let me know what you think.
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Nadya Johnson June 25, 2008

Excellent portrait, Chuck! After looking at these two, I prefer the first but w/o the tree. Mind you, if you study old paintings of the era I believe you were going for, you will find all SORTS of oddities half-hidden in the backgrounds, up to and including what appear to be UFO's!! So technically, I think the tree back there would be historically correct. My only trouble with it is, it distracts the eye a bit I think, drawing attention from the eyes to the mouth instead.

Either way, outstanding work on this! I enjoyed your gallery very much - and by the way, also like your cartoon mini-pic! #6106532

Chuck S. Frizzell June 25, 2008

Nadya, Thank you for your comment. Your right they always had some obscure objects in the background. So it's nice that you figured out why I put the tree back there. I tried it higher, closer to eye level, but it just didn't look right. I may take it out all together, but then there would be no oddity. #6107260

June 26, 2008

Nice job with this, Chuck. The added lighting to the face really helped. I like the crackle texture. #6109269

Chuck S. Frizzell June 26, 2008

Thanks for the comment, Deborah. #6111803

Joan E. Hoffman June 27, 2008

Very nice work on this Chuck. Love the softness and the texture! #6114576

Chuck S. Frizzell June 27, 2008

Thank you Joan. #6114939

Kathleen Rinker June 28, 2008

Excellent, love your PS work, great work!! #6117964

Chuck S. Frizzell June 28, 2008

Kathleen, thank you for the kind comment. #6117989

Aggie Villanueva June 28, 2008

I think you've done a fabulous job with this. Now can you print it out on stretched canvas to complete the look?!!! I enjoyed reading all the comments because I learned from this. Thankx for that. #6118824

Chuck S. Frizzell July 07, 2008

Thank you Aggie, your comments are always so wonderful. I have a 13"x19" printer with roll canvas I'm going to use to print it. #6150281

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