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[André]

Hello everybody.

The original of this image is almost two years old, but I tried to give it a completely new look now I have PS CS3.  I stumbled on it while doing some overdue backup this weekend.



Cheers,
André

[aprilS]

So bold and unusual.

"Disembodied" is the word that comes to mind.

As compelling as the connection is through her eye, at the same time I have the feeling I might be looking at someone who is dead.

I find it disconcerting, but that isn't a "bad thing."

[eob]

I think I understand what the motive behind this effect (fake, or real) was, but I can't say I appreciate the result too much. It screams at me: "cheap" bokeh-plugin. Besides, I do not see any visual and/or intellectual reason for this kind of a treatment. Unless you wanted this shot to be a background for some text in the upper-right part?...

Sometimes, the noise (as in the noise-to-signal ratio) in an image plays equally important role as the signal itself, but in this case, I think the noise is just noise, without much meaning. Perhaps I can explain myself better, if I replace the term noise/signal with one that is more suitable for a visual art: negative/positive space.

One thing I do like here is the radical crop. I think this sort of a crop alone could easily replace the exaggerated shallow depth-of-field and result in a similar effect of visual isolation of the eye from the rest of face/body - in a more natural and logical way. As I mentioned in some other thread: I do not think that logic does not belong in art (at least realistic art).

[habakuk]

To me, this is such a difficult shot. There are elements that I simply love, like the intensity of the iris, and elements that I stumble over like the blurred left edge of the eye brow...

I can understand eobs "fake!" reaction. But it's not "fake!" enough for me to dismiss it entirely. Too strong are some of the elements...

cheers
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