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Old 01-23-2005, 05:32 PM   #1
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Allan,

I think Mikes' suggestions are good ones. I love the blue mantle but it does pop a bit too much.
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Old 01-23-2005, 05:53 PM   #2
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Mike and Sharon, thank you for the comments.

You are right, it does look weird. The colors are off, because I took the photo under a halogen light and used the polarizing filter to (almost) avoid glare. It seems that the filter takes away a part of the light.

I better take another photo of the painting tomorrow and replace this.
The painting is much less brownish. But we will see then.

Sharon,
Egon is the nicest human being that I know and I plan to make a bigger portrait of him.

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Old 01-23-2005, 06:57 PM   #3
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I have adjusted the color balance in photo shop so now it looks more like it should.
But I will take another shut outside tomorrow to see the difference.

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Old 01-23-2005, 07:10 PM   #4
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Very nice Allan. I love your painterly technique. Your painting has a nice uniform glow and composition. You certainly were able to read into and restore the missing information in the photo. Did you modify the blue shelf from it's actual color?

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Old 01-23-2005, 07:39 PM   #5
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Allen, I'm very impressed and I think you captured the kindness that seems to comethrough from Egon's expression.
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Old 01-23-2005, 07:55 PM   #6
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Garth, thanks.

The photo was taken on a rainy day with low light, but the Nikon d70 did the job and I liked the photo for a sketch. The light was very low so the highlights were overexposed though.
So I made it all up from imagination.

I just recently got the photo shop and am still learning, but I managed to manipulate the middel tones from Blue toward Yellow. And I also lightened the image.

The painting is actually a bit more yellow than the reference, but not much.

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Old 01-23-2005, 07:58 PM   #7
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Allan, this is wonderful! I agree with all of the above, but if you did nothing more I would still love it.

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Old 01-23-2005, 08:18 PM   #8
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Allan, I loved it. The painting has a classic painterly feel to it. Like I feel like I have seen it in a famous museum somewhere. Good stuff.
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Old 01-23-2005, 11:13 PM   #9
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Very nice Allan. I like the subject.
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Old 01-24-2005, 09:52 PM   #10
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It's just wonderful! The technique is superb, and the face just bursts with character. It doesn't feel "posed " at all, which is always my favorite kind of portrait.

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