Multiple self portraits because no one wants to model for me (my husband said 'oh, no - that's nutty stuff.' I put my camera on a pile of stuff on a chair, and 'posed'? in front of some black cloth over a clothes horse, which was rather limiting. I messed my hair up and wrapped an old dirty drop cloth from the garage around myself - yeah, nutty stuff.
I combined three images in Picasa>collages>multiple exposure
Open PSCS3
Open a 4th image
Select some of it
Copy
Close and return to collaged image
Paste
Transform, scale, move
Erase some of this layer
Flatten
Clone out a bit of belt
Topaz Adjust 5
Topaz Black & White Effects
Border
Paint some irregular border at varying opacity
Burn tool
Liquefy smear some bits of image into the pained border
Spot healing tool
Select and transform>skew
Paint bucket
Image size
Black paint brush, low opacity, over some bits that stood out too much
Sfw
Wow! Thanks everyone for your votes and comments. Now I have a full complement of ribbon colours. Happy me! - No, actually I don't. I don't have a brown, although I missed that honour by just one place a few weeks ago.
I think this is going to sit on my front page for a looong time. It makes a change from the flowery stuff anyway.
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Looking closer, I really like how the cloth covering seems to blend from the lowest person to the older, suggesting that the garment itself is one whole piece and that the spectres behind are emerging from her fears into reality. Also, that 'second' spectre's eyes aren't looking quite straight and that's just creepy as hell.
yeesh.
I usually end up doing my challenge entry work late at night, so the idea of shooting and editing this in the wee hours gives me the willies!!!
What I don't like is the ugly transitions to black all along the top edge (compare to the soft grained transitions to black in the hair on the middle left). Everything else is spot on.
Hahahahaha I have the same problem. No one in my family will model for me. So I have been modeling for myself. One thing good about being your own model you never complain and have no problem doing nutty stuff. Great photo!
Awesome Marion! I really like what you did here. You know I read your profile biography several months ago and it made me laugh hard. You sound like a real character I hope you don't mind me saying, and that's very cool! ;)
Fear Of The Dark - Iron Maiden
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