the art of portraiture...

when digital portraiture overshadows a oil painters medium...

Wow! It's the Mona Lisa! This is such a lovely concept that I would literally go to town with it, that is, shoot a thousand images and play around with it a bit.

Great job Frederick!

The background is beautiful and the colors on the face are somehow over saturated and the whole face seems to be over exposed!

Warm regards Frederick!

PDE

Very good selection of background,model and light. I think slightly more work was done on the face,either it's saturation of color,sharpening,levels. Please present it in monochrome version too as it might give more pleasure.

Frederick,

  I have looked at both of these: color and black and white.  My preference is for the colored version.  Like the others my first thought was that the white balance was off - then I imagined that she was painted onto the canvas and the color became more acceptable, much like an old oil painting whose upper varnish layer has yellowed with time. It occurs to me that you could use some computer trick to introduce the cracks and crackles that old paintings have and its realism would increase.

Jerry

Brilliantly Done!

A modern...Monna Lisa!