shawngibson

I hate it when people walk in and say how sexy the model is, but in this case I have to say wow what a sexy model.  Beautiful image, thank you.

Would be very beautiful if the face wasn't so blurred/fixed with photoshop. The photographer forgot about how lenses work. 

Very clean (no pun intended). I really like the transition into non-focus and the way her skin mirrors that by way of it's lack of texture.

Shawn

This looks very much like the beginnings of a Rennaisance painting and I love it! I don't know how you did the painterly things, the impressions, but it's very successful to me! Nice work...Makes me want to pull out an old painting and finish it!

Shawn

Yeah, I really like this. It is quite natural and the textures and portrayal are both intriguing.

Shawn

One of my favourites ever here, wow! It has such a painterly style that I can't help imagine the artist who created it as much as the subject within the image itself...this is very much a personal journey. I am fascinated by the manipulations involved in the face...the Egyptian-style eyes and all the other little nuances...

Shawn

I agree, excellent colour. Do you mind sharing any of your HDR process?

Shawn

I actually tried to do this once. Just once...wow it was hard.

Very impressive AND attractive photo!

Shawn

Painting can be strictly representational, through to purely abstract, and may be created through many techniques and tools. EXACTLY the same thing can be said of photography.

If 100 years ago someone wanted to add particular chemistry to their process in the development of a negative or a print, or indeed used anything but the crudest of methods in the creation of the images (to the point of 'altering reality' by furthering the photograph articifially with a brush, or some other tool)...people would NOT in general demean the value of the work, as is so often happening these days when people do so with digital. So what is the difference with digital? It is not, I am sure, the change in media, but rather a complete lack of understanding by 'the critics', and a breathtaking stupidity to even think such a distinction has any value to anyone but the least refined. There are certainly many, many Photoshop Hacks...but there have also been paint-by-numbers 'painters' for decades. There is a world of distinction between the hacks and the serious artists, as always. But many of the posters on this site do not recognize that.

This work here IS 'serious' art...whether it is a photograph or a painting or a bunch of pixels that exist in some netherworld between.

Those amongst you who must incessantly floccinaucinihilipilificate the legitimate digital 'works' on this site should start concentrating on your own capabilities (read: expand your mind) rather than needlessly harping on what is essentially an uneducated point of view. But what else is new - the 'average' photographer is no more an artist than is the 'average' house painter.

This image above is a perfect example of what a lot of the images of pdn could be, if some of you started taking pictures and stopped talking so much...

I am not saying this about anyone in this post in particular, though obviously it fits some of the posts.

And maybe I should stop looking up big words in the dictionary...ya think?

Shawn

Somewhat Nerd Oddball-esque (hope you get that...). I absolutely love almost all of your work. Thanks very much for the incredible inspiration!

The chiaroscuro is the work of a master, and the lines are from someone who has spent a long time...looking.

Shawn

Ahoj Marketo. Moc pekne! Very pretty photograph! I like a lot of your work.

Shawn

This is absolutely beautiful. Great composition, great subject, great tone...great feel:)

Thanks for sharing.

Shawn

This is incredible, thanks very much for sharing. Now of course I have to go and look at all your other work, since this is obviously not a fluke:)

Shawn

I absolutely love this. Very pretty:)

Shawn

Moc hezky! Very Beautiful images, all 3 I've seen, Jana.

:)

I don't think it's cluttered at all, it's obviously intentional, all the crap there LOL! I think this is a wonderful photo. The boots add a tremendous amount of weight to the bottom, which just adds lightness (as should be?) to the model's upper body/face.

Great!

Shawn

Misha, you are very inspiring. 7/7. You make me want to SHOOT!

Your portfolio as a whole is a great lesson to us all, that Effort, above all, is top. And in your case, it has certainly paid off on a visual level.

Awesome stuff, thank you very much.

Shawn

I like this very much, it is directly what it wants to be, without crossing over the edge or being vulgar.

Myslim to je moc hezky:)

Shawn

Yeah, I have to comment on it too, I just love this, very beautiful.

Shawn

Very beautiful lines, thanks very much for sharing:)

Shawn

Wow. My first ten. I only rate the photos I like, but I've never given a ten before.

This is Eternity as I see it.

Great effort.

Thank you very much:)

shawn

Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty...and the Truth and Beauty are both perfect and simple.

It doesn't get closer to a bare-bones representation of All than this:)