The enchanted forest #17

This could really be a wonderful piece of work??????

Not looking for realism here - just trying to create a fairy tale mood

using a slide montage technique (no PS tricks at all, here).

take the time to work your color palette... sloppy PS loses the wondreful idea... clean this up and repost... it has the making of a fine image.

The green light spots takes too many attention away from the model !

Jeff, read the technical details. No PS here. Good attempt in doing this without the computer, but the red 'effects' painted on her hands makes it messy and loses control. The fairness of her skin especially on her hands should be kept to her original colour in my opinion.

Beatiful colors, and softness!

Did you use gaussian blur overlay in PS? It looks a bit too excessive.

I like the atmosphere and colours.

 

I think that use of the Atherize filter is a little to strong in this image. If you do it on a copied layer, you can always gum some part away, so that some becomes dreamy and otther more realistic.

 

 

Philippe, I really like the technique...I'm always jealous when I notice something but don't use it creatively (the other day I noticed the cool effect 2-stacked slides gave when I was sorting a new box of slides)

 

It works especially well w/your subject matter. But...I have to agree that the red on her hands is a little disctracting (looks more messy...like ink that ran...or coloring outside the lines). The green lights in the b/g are a matter of taste...I think they make the tree trunks look very magical, and could be viewed as will-o'-the-whisps or something of the ilk rather than over-exposed spots. I wouldn't argue that the green areas do catch the eye more than her face (because the relative brightness), but I think that this pic catches and holds one's attention long enough to notice how wonderful she is.

 

Awesome! It makes me jones to go to the Ren-Fair!

 

-Mike

well, I guess it is part photoshop...if I were going to adjust anything in the image w/PS, I'd dodge the left 1/2 of her face...on 2nd look, the tone (compared the right 1/2) makes her left 1/2 look dirty. Not very princess-like to have a dirty face. :)

 

Also, the high-tone on the right side of face (combined w/the darkness of her left side of face) doesn't match direction of lighting shown on her chest...so I'd tweak that to give it more continuity in as far as lighting-direction is concerned (I guess I love fantasy...but a little reality is required)

 

Again, great use of a cool property!

 

Mike