{"id":23515,"date":"2019-02-24T16:54:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T21:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=23515"},"modified":"2019-02-28T15:57:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T20:57:10","slug":"favorite-photo-february-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=23515","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Photo, February 23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sami Lynn with Rose Petals, Columbus Ohio. February 23, 2007.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Sami Lynn and I were creating portraits for her model portfolio. With her on the floor, I arranged her hair to get as many curls as possible at the ends of the strands of hair. The rose petals were my idea. I knew the Valentine’s Day roses in a vase were about done so I plucked all the petals and dropped them on the floor and on Sami Lynn. <\/p>\n\n\n

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I used two studio lights to create this image. The main light is close to the floor and to the upper left. The fill light is to the lower right.<\/p>\n

The original image was in color. She picked a bold shade of red lipstick to match the red tips of the rose petals.<\/p>\n

I took the original image and de-saturated everything but her lips and the rose petals.<\/p>\n

I did that by making a duplicate layer of the original color image and turned the duplicate into a black and white layer. I created a “layer mask” so I could erase and un-erase parts of the B&W layer so the color layer would show through. Then I erased only the parts of the upper B&W layer where the rose petals and her lips were, revealing the color layer underneath. The beauty of a layer mask is if I erased too much of the upper layer, I could go back and un-erase the part I didn’t intend to erase.<\/p>\n

Not only is this is my favorite photo for February 23, this is one of my all time favorite portraits.<\/p>\n

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Series: Favorite Photos by Date<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c all about this series<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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