My cat taken through vaseline smeared all over my lens..just kidding, taken through a small window smeared with vaseline and held in front of the lens; one can see the finger marks on the right where I pulled the vaseline across the glass,however, where the cat's head is, the vaseline was softened by rubbing a towel on that section...auto levels, curves, brightness/contrast, usm, cropped.
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This was honestly one of my favorites...I love the fact that you didn't use gaussian blur, that the effect was achieved "in camera". This just has a really nice painterly quality about it...so very different.
I don't understand why people can be quite offensive when viewing something and making a comment that may hurt.
Before leaving a comment like one of the ones below, think if you would be upset or hurt if you received a similar comment, then maybe you would not write that type of comment.
I can see what you were trying to achieve, and think it is a mighty effort. It has a very surreal feeling, almost like a vision, or spirit, one has in a dream. This may be the softest of the soft, re the images in this challenge.
This is a very unusual image. Out-of-the-box for DPC. Perfectly meets the challenge. Lovely subtle colors. Soft enough to lend mystery and clear enough to leave the face well defined. Among my top picks.
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