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Postby Heath Bennett on Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:44 pm

From tonights processing, went a little further than usual:

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Postby big pix on Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:54 pm

very very good.......
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Postby Geoff on Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:56 pm

Nice one Heath :)
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Postby PiroStitch on Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:05 pm

Very nice. Love the focus on the lips and the dandelion
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Postby Alex on Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:16 pm

Great photo. Treatment is very creative.

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Postby BT*ist on Mon Apr 30, 2007 12:25 am

Beautiful! I'd be tempted to do a crop that removes the shoulder and everything below it, though. It has a fantastic "billboard" quality to it (and I'm only partially sure I know what that means...)
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Postby methd on Mon Apr 30, 2007 1:50 am

awesome pic
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Postby iposiniditos on Mon Apr 30, 2007 3:28 am

Great photo and great pp!

Really beautiful combination.

Any tips about the proccesing?

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Postby Heath Bennett on Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:43 am

iposiniditos wrote:Great photo and great pp!

Really beautiful combination.

Any tips about the proccesing?

thnx a lot!


Thanks for the comments.

The main tip about the processing here is that hair is really hard to remove. Everyone has little baby hairs all over their body unless they shave rediculously. I spent ages on it removing all the fine hairs, and then wasted my time because I added blurs! This was the main concern. Pro models do a lot of hair removal, but this was a friend so I couldn't ask her to go all spikey for the next month...

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Postby sirhc55 on Mon Apr 30, 2007 11:45 am

Heath - love the image but would like to see more detail in the dandelion, it would IMO add a greater graphic detail to an excellent image.
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Postby fishafotos on Mon Apr 30, 2007 12:04 pm

That looks absolutley magnificent! Brilliant work!
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Postby Heath Bennett on Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:46 pm

sirhc55 wrote:Heath - love the image but would like to see more detail in the dandelion, it would IMO add a greater graphic detail to an excellent image.


Agreed. I'm thinking burn tool on shadows....
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Postby iposiniditos on Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:49 pm

Heath Bennett wrote:The main tip about the processing here is that hair is really hard to remove. Everyone has little baby hairs all over their body unless they shave rediculously. I spent ages on it removing all the fine hairs, and then wasted my time because I added blurs! This was the main concern. Pro models do a lot of hair removal, but this was a friend so I couldn't ask her to go all spikey for the next month...

The curse is the detail cams bring through.


Many thanks for your tips!
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Postby iGBH on Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:55 pm

Great shot. It would be interesting to see what the 'before' photo looked like too.
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Postby kamran on Tue May 01, 2007 12:14 am

Wow! Very lovely. Excellent composition, focus and post processing. Keep it up.

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Postby surenj on Tue May 01, 2007 12:48 am

Great shot!..Could I ask that dandelian and model were photographed at the same time?

Somehow she seems to be not blowing hard enough for the petals to fly?
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Postby Heath Bennett on Wed May 02, 2007 10:42 pm

surenj wrote:Great shot!..Could I ask that dandelian and model were photographed at the same time?

Somehow she seems to be not blowing hard enough for the petals to fly?


Thanks mate.

Yes it was photographed at the same time, and yes it does look effortless and thats why I like it.

Ok, I'll be honest, there was only one flying until I created some more! :)
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Postby marcotrov on Thu May 03, 2007 8:07 pm

Another superbly taken and finished image Heath. Stunning :)
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