Priscilla Queen of the Dessert

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Priscilla Queen of the Dessert

Postby Onyx on Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:04 am

Actually, it's Kate. But it reminded me of Priscilla Queen of the Dessert.
Warning: nudity.

First
Second
The second one had a bit of work done in Virtual Photographer, a filter plug-in for Photoshop, as well as deliberately introduced vignetting. Tell me if it works or not, or if I've gone too far in screwing with it.
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Postby wendellt on Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:42 am

2nd one is great
it's a real improvement from the other full nudes

for the first one i would of framed it so shes off centre
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Postby Geoff on Sat Jan 27, 2007 8:13 am

Onyx - we are seeing you improve with each shoot u do!
I like both of these but the first one particularly seems quite over sharpened to me on my monitor.

I prefer the 2nd image here.

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Postby DaveB on Sat Jan 27, 2007 8:21 am

The 2nd is definitely better than the first, although it's hard to get the full effect when you have to pan around inside a web browser.

Here I was expecting some twist to the pictures (maybe with some sort of confectionery) but apparently you meant desert instead of dessert. 8)
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Postby gstark on Sat Jan 27, 2007 9:30 am

Chi,

They're both very good, but you need to cut back on the sharpening that you're doing here. They're both oversharpened, and the first by quite a bit.

In the first, look at the area where the underside of the model's left arm meets the background - there's significant haloing there.

In the second, the feet almost seem to be lifted into a different plane from that of the rocks upon which Kate is standing. Not as bad as the first, but I think you're taking the sharpening too far, but then failing to pull it back enough.

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Postby Onyx on Sat Jan 27, 2007 11:15 am

Thanks for your comments. These shots came from the very first shoot I did, now 3 weeks ago, by which stage I just about knew nothing and had learnt nothing... well now, I had learnt from my Flickr gallery that some of what I find mundane other ppl tend to really like, and what I think are great shots others find ho-hum. So I'll increasingly post my crappy pics and see what the reaction is.

I am aware of the oversharpening, as these were prepared for printing - and it's also why they're a not web friendly 1440x960 res (at 240dpi, that's almost a perfect 6x4).

And sorry, no sugary treats in this thread... I should learn me some grammar! ;)
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Very good

Postby vanstar on Sun Feb 04, 2007 9:36 pm

Like the first best. Lovely light and model too.
Where was the location?
What time?
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