Pictures ranked 1 in the contests, made by MossyB

Painted Ship - created by MossyB

Rank: 1/2

Score: 63.7% (54)

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This photo shows such good composition, I wanted to simply give it a more "painterly" feel, digital style... (5 years and 2542 days ago)

12 Comments

Painted, Ship

Asian Girl - created by MossyB

Favs: 3

SBS: 13

Hi-res

Rank: 1/8

Score: 66.1% (45)

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(5 years and 3138 days ago)

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19 Comments

Asian, Girl, ethnicity, asian-change

Mikaelbg says:

Well done, high mark. Only one thing that I noticed, there is a weird green spot on her head (top right), seems like it needs some retouching.

author says:

Yup, I see it...NOW. Thanks!
It's late, and my eyes are crossing tonight. Will fix it in the morning. Thanks again!

erathion says:

U did great job author...with few minor tweaks this can be perfect...Mikael is right about upper right part and maybe u could use smudge tool to create few hairs that out of the hair line to achieve more natural and realistic look...also just an idea maybe u could create thing that Japanese woman do with the lipstick just in the middle of the lips...

ssswin88 says:

Great, Colection.

sbobet

author says:

I contemplated giving her the "full Geisha" makeup, with the snow white foundation, and Geisha "experience" shape (did you know that the size and shape - top, bottom, or both) signify the age and experience of the Geisha?), but felt that would be too far from the "ethnicity."

Hair is SUCH a complicated thing to chop well. Too smooth and it looks cut and paste...I gave her some loose hairs on the RH side, but the ones on the left just didn't look natural...I'll try again.

Thanks for your comments!

CMYK46 says:

Great transformation & SBS...GL author!

JoeCacia says:

Wonderful creation author! greatly!

k5683 says:

wow! great job.

Derivatix says:

great job on the girl love it! It I want to be picky I see that the background looks a bit unnatural. First of all there aren't any shadows under the trees and secondly, more important in my point of view, the very closeup of the face does not allow the background to be in focus. It's unnatural to the human eye, if I look at somethin that close, I see the background out of focus.

author says:

It's an "HDR" (High Definition Resolution) shot, so the focus is the same near and far, and the photographer was using a strong umbrella reflector light, so the trees had no shadow...

I do appreciate your comments, thank you for taking the time to point these things out. I learn things I need to improve with every entry, thanks to fellow members like you!

Derivatix says:

uhm, HDR has nothing to do with the focus, it simply means bringing out details in the very dark and very light areas, thus producing an image with rich details in all light levels. Just for clarification.

author says:

Thanks for the clarification...
Don't deal with a sense of humor much, do ya? lol!

Derivatix says:

c'mon, are you kidding?

Glockman says:

Pretty good , right side of the nostril is puffy and there is a lack of definition around the eye tear section.color is slightly washed out but I think I still like it. good luck.