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Kiss

Postby zafra52 on Sun Jul 21, 2013 10:50 am

Kiss by Xu Hongfei (Campbell’s Cove - Sydney). I know it is an unusual
perspective of the statue, but all his statues are equally unusual. So
this angle makes the kiss implied - I hope. I hope you like it.

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Re: Kiss

Postby chrisk on Sun Jul 21, 2013 8:24 pm

have not seen a technique like this before. its very interesting. not sure if I like it, but it did make me think, that's a good thing !
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Re: Kiss

Postby Remorhaz on Sun Jul 21, 2013 9:34 pm

Yes - interesting choppage - did you take a single whole image first and then add the black or did you take separate image chunks and line them up?
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Re: Kiss

Postby Matt. K on Sun Jul 21, 2013 11:03 pm

NIce technique! Adds an element of interest to the subject.
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Re: Kiss

Postby zafra52 on Mon Jul 22, 2013 10:01 pm

Thank you for your kind comments. The angle I chose was to add interest.
The picture above was to be part of a triptych ( below), but at the last
minute I thought it would be too large and take away some impact.
The pictures above is one picture with a black layer on top on which
I have drown rectangles and removed them to expose the lower layers;
the same with the picture on the right of the triptych. The centre picture
was a close up picture that I have cropped into a square as the centre
piece.

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Re: Kiss

Postby CraigVTR on Tue Jul 23, 2013 8:38 am

:agree: with all the above comments, the technique is unusual and adds interest. I would suggest cloning out the communications tower in the background, just behind the head, in the central image.
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Re: Kiss

Postby sirhc55 on Tue Jul 23, 2013 6:50 pm

No more words than - I love it :up:
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Re: Kiss

Postby zafra52 on Tue Jul 23, 2013 7:04 pm

Thank you for the suggestion, done.
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