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Published: 2010-01-13 20:43:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 15368; Favourites: 974; Downloads: 0
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- Take self-portraits: [link]
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- Warm/vintage edit: [link]
Materials and Methods
Nikon D80 + 18-55mm Nikkor + IR remote. Light blue Chinese parasol in front of a large window. Halloween kimono costume. Post editing on GIMP using the warm/vintage edit. Curves to darken the silhouette.
Additional Comments
I've wanted to try this ever since I saw ~kedralynn 's work
I don't really like the long landscape composition but I wanted to crop out my face above and table below 
I'll probably try it again laterThanks to ~smileforRAE for the title
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Comments: 63
Like the window piece, I feel like this hearkens back to an earlier era, except with modern fashion.. only this time stylized Chinese art rather than (I think) French oils.
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extremely elegant posture
love the lighting!
look at that neck!
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Lovely piece! I love the light n ur so elegant!
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I can't find the right words to describe how I much i like this picture. for lack of better words - simply elegant & refreshing.
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i love the parasoul (? lol, no idea how to spell that) it's very brightly colored and has a sort of Asian theme to it, in my opinion. it's a beautiful picture.
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Very beautiful. Lovely use of light, I especially love the way the shadow is on the neck.
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I like the concept -but- I don't like this particular colour of the background and over-saturated skin tone.
I hope that you find some time to re-do it
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The skin was originally black. I think it just looks over-saturated due to the color balancing.
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The background colour is probably my own preference anyway. If you do it white, the umbrella won't be visible enough so I guess this background it is...
About the skin... hmm... wouldn't you want to just leave it all black for a nice silhouette style?
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beauty never ceases to amaze -- when you imagination gets the chance to play -- later days
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i really like it. i think it looks like a pretty lady waiting for someone-- she's holding her parasol between folded hands. so that might look like she's impatient.
but still. it's impatience in all eloquence.
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Thanks
"impatience in all eloquence" - very lyrical; mind if I use it for the title?
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lol. sure. it would be a real honor. ;D
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The lighting is nice. Love the neck line. The back of the garment is a little bunched up which interrupts the flow of lines. If that's a Kimono I can understand. If it's something else it should be tightened up. The landscape view looks good. I like that style of framing.
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Yes it's a Kimono 
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That is you, right? I love your neck in this. 
(and the lighting is beautiful)
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Nice!, a question, do you find Gimp, a really better option than Photoshop?, I mean I would like to update my PS, but, is too expensive, so, I was thinking download Gimp, any recomendation??
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I find GIMP to be an economical alternative. I think any program can be good (for photo editing) as long as you know how to use it.
I used to use Ulead PhotoImpact5, a $5 photo editing program, which I liked a lot. But it doesn't run on Vista so I had to change to GIMP. I've only tried Photoshop a few times and have found it not that much better than PhotoImpact or GIMP for basic photo post editing.
If you heavily edit your photos (complete body reshaping) or do painting, PS is most likely better. Otherwise, why not save money and go with GIMP
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Well... I guess so, but if you have a huuuge student discount and can get latest Creative Suite for something shy of $100 US... I couldn't stop myself from buying
Love HK!
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I really like it , i have one small (subjective) remark.
I find the crop a bit distracting. The lip looks a little strange to me, maybe crop it of or crop less (showing more lip for example)
just a suggestion
for the rest i totally love it
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Yeah, if I keep looking at it I guess I can see your point
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maybe you can show more of the mouth?
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