Woman Smoking Cigarette (Alternate Version)

This alternate version of this woman's portrait evokes in my opinion a different mood and a different sense of the character of the subject. Compare

this version to the original version

I have created two digitally altered versions of the same portrait,

and was interested in how viewers might respond to each of the

versions. Comparing the two, I think that there are interesting

differences in terms of their "visual impact".

I must say that in this version there is not much left to be seen of the interesting facial expression nor of the pose which make the other version interesting. This version seems to have no point of interest anymore.

It seems that my artistic intent was not being conveyed particularly well via the mechanism of the two separate images. I have therefore constructed an application, using the "xatshow" screensaver program, that will alternately display each of the images, with one image "dissolving" or fading into the other image.

This program can be downloaded here:

Bill, I can see where you are heading in terms

of the imact you wish to have, but technically

I think you overused the "contrast" task.

Bill: I like the posterized presentation better. My mind is more involved with the more extreme shot and that is fun. This is certainly worth playing with.