Emma XXX

A different take on Emma and all done without Photoshop. Don.

Emma is a wonderful girl! Congrats, Fritz

Hello Don, I like this study, it's pretty much perfect for PhotoArtMaster. Possibly more so than portraits.

 

Best wishes. Peter

Fritz - She is indeed just the most wonderful and beautiful person I know...and she's also a very patient model!

Peter - PhotoArtMaster has progressed and mutated into ArtMasterPro, a high-end app for professionals. You'd be very hard pressed to get this high quality output from PAM - for a start there's no brush control in PAM. Try the AMP trial download from www.fo2pix.com Cheers. Don

Don, yes, I looked at the web site, I didn't want to spend the GBP400-odd for the professional, so I downloaded the freeby. But I doo like this study a lot.

 

I wish I could get my wife to sit comfortably in front of the camera, let alone any form of posing!

 

Regards. Pete

I don't want to sound like a troll, but why didn't you just use a pencil and paper and skip the whole camera process? If a drawing is what you wanted... ?

...because I can't draw and paint to save my life! I can however user a camera and drive a computer. End of. Don

Don, I am sorry if I sounded harsh, that was not my intent. I was a painter long, long before I picked up a TLR. If you look at my photos you will see that I cannot drive a computer or a camera to save MY life!

 

I would like to see you put up the "straight" photos next to your digital alterations. You do have a good eye and I think that this shot (as an example) would stand on its own.

 

BTW, this would have made a beautiful watercolor.

I don't think you sound harsh...and I think your portfolio is very good. Here's the original photo, and IMO not nearly as good or as classy as the one with that artwork. Do you agree? Don

Honestly Don, I think that instead of as a drawing, the photo would look stunning as a straight B&W glossy. It has all of the essential elements there to make it a real masterpiece of fine-art photography. Or as an honest-to-goodness wet camel-hair brush dipped in wet paint watercolor.

 

That is what I noticed about the examples of your work. Your portraits, landscapes and bodyscapes all show forethought and a good sense of aesthetics. You really have a good eye for subject detail and composition. This one is just another example of that element which runs through all of your work. But as accomplished as your computer talent is, your graphic work still has that machine-made look. The arts of drawing and painting survived the invention of photography because of the uniqueness of each piece. It is the flaws in the representation of the real object which gives a Renoir painting its one-of-a-kind beauty. Perhaps regular, pedestrian, digital photography bores you a bit and that frustrated painter inside of you begins to scream for release. After a while it all becomes too easy and the crafted nature of the art (that which will NOT be denied in any true artist) seeks its expression via other outlets.

 

There are hundreds of PN members (myself included) who have rediscovered the sublime joy and personal satisfaction of using B&W film in an old dinosaur of a camera. It would come as no surprise to me if I hear than you went out and bought an old Yashica TLR and a couple rolls of 120 B&W film for $50 and have been having a ball with it ever since. You have the eye and you have the talent. Playing Bach on the CD player is nice, but playing Bach on the harpscichord is even better.

...I pinged you a lenghty email last night..did you get it? Don