Revenge (WARNING may offend)

[Creativesnaps]

I have added a B&A so you can see how i more or less went about it.  I did as much as i could in camera and at the time i couldn't find a garden to my liking.  it was taken two years ago and edited the other week as I had some time on my hands and i also found the garden i wanted to use .   I did an edit back then but it never worked due to the background i used.  So don't just throw anything in and make do, it doesn't work as I have found out overtime.

 

It was a four light setup.  The main light in this image was the one @ camera left and slightly behind her.  The rim light @ camera right was set a lot lower as i wanted to create a rim but not overpowering the main.  The other two were to the front for fill and to create highlights.

 

Post was mainly D&B, colour balance, Inverted surface blur for detail, added a painterly look using reduce noise and high pass, added a sky, garden, wasp, smoke and birds, added the tip of her finger on her left hand (it was hidden behind the leaf), removed sticker on plant pot and just did some free style to add the overall look i wanted at the time.

 

Hope you like it.

 

Revenge

 

 

 

 

[annie]

it reminds me of a 60s girls annual, or comic.

 

an awful lot of work by the sound of it....wonderful end result though.

[KateW]

Brilliant!

[Terry]

Very clever, like it

[Guest]

I get a feeling I have seen your work (though not this shot) on another forum. I like it.

[Guest]

p.s. It's less common to see wasps out in the spring (hyacinths).

[ChrisLumix]

Minnie the Minx is alive and well and living in...!

 

Great idea, well executed. I'm not sure what this B&A is you sometimes refer to?

[Creativesnaps]

Thanks for your comments

Hi Annie, it was a 1.5hr edit over 3hrs as I kept going back to it with fresh eyes.

Hi Bill, I thought I recognised the pic of you. Was it IP?

I think I have found a nice and friendly forum for once. I have been on a few but they are either to quite with not much going on and no one really participating or they are to clicky.

[Creativesnaps]

Thanks Chris. It's before and after.

Oh Bill, you have an eye for detail with the wasp. :)

[Guest]

Hi Bill, I thought I recognised the pic of you. Was it IP?

I think I have found a nice and friendly forum for once. I have been on a few but they are either to quite with not much going on and no one really participating or they are to clicky.

IP it may well have been.  This is a friendly little forum. Really nice people, (they pay me to say so, or at least said they would!)

Oh Bill, you have an eye for detail with the wasp.

 

just picky!

[Denis]

 

I have added a B&A  It was a four light setup.  The main light in this image was the one @ camera left and slightly behind her.  The rim light @ camera right was set a lot lower as i wanted to create a rim but not overpowering the main.  The other two were to the front for fill and to create highlights. Post was mainly D&B, colour balance, Inverted surface blur for detail, added a painterly look using reduce noise and high pass.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I understood this post  all the way until you mentioned the above! 

[fuzzyedges]

Very nicly formed

I like the image but I am intrigued as to why you croped the head

Wasps arnt as bad as there bad press They are only flies with a sting

[Creativesnaps]

Cheers.

 

I'm feared of wasps but i wouldn't burn one.  You want to see my reaction when one comes near me .  

I cropped the head as its something i like at times with my images.  I just have odd taste and like going against the standards.

[fuzzyedges]

Cheers.

 

I'm feared of wasps but i wouldn't burn one.  You want to see my reaction when one comes near me .  

I cropped the head as its something i like at times with my images.  I just have odd taste and like going against the standards.

I assume you wave your arms about and annoy the wasp Cant think why they sting

I also have used a cropped crown, which is why I was intrested, I found it gave a dynamic to the face and focused the attention more to the eyes and I have been critised more than once for doing so

Its nice to see someone with a parrell view to the norm

[Creativesnaps]

Thats me

 

Totally agree with you.  I just go with what I feel is right and like you said it may get criticised as its not the norm for some.  Someone once told me, if you are going to crop the head or any other body part, make it look deliberate.  I've always kept that in mind.

[Kobione]

OK Creative, this is fantastic and I well like it,  - however, it has now scared me off making any comment other than 'Well done' or 'Nice shot' in response to your posts!! You are obviously way ahead of me, or what I want to be, in the techno sense, but loved seeing this anyway. Look forward to seeing more posts suited to your user name

[Creativesnaps]

Thank you Dee

[NannyFerret]

A wasp landed on my hand the other day. I just gave it a gentle blow and off it flew without even a backwards look.

They only sting if you or others panic.

[Creativesnaps]

It's a phobia of mine.

[colinb]

Cheers.

 

I cropped the head as its something i like at times with my images.  I just have odd taste and like going against the standards.

 

not really going against standards, the crop works very well and is something often done to bring the eyes nicely on the top third.

 

The girls expression is wonderful and she is acting the part spot on!

 

So after all that work are you going to do anything with the image or is it to disappear into the depths of the www?

[Creativesnaps]

Cheers Colin. It's going to print and its been published on 1x and hopefully a sale or two.