{"id":28473,"date":"2021-02-23T23:54:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T04:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=28473"},"modified":"2021-02-24T00:00:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T05:00:19","slug":"sami-lynn-a-valentine-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=28473","title":{"rendered":"Sami Lynn, A Valentine Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/070223_Sami_rose_petals_5D_9591-w7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/070223_Sami_rose_petals_5D_9591-w7.jpg\" alt=\"Sami Lynn with rose petals.\" class=\"wp-image-11444\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Sami Lynn with rose petals.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a week and a half after Valentine&#8217;s Day and most of the dozen Valentine&#8217;s Day roses in a vase on the dining room table were done and had been thrown away, but a few were still looking good. I asked Sami to lay on the floor, handed her a long stemmed rose, and I carefully arranged her hair. Then I stood up and pulled the best looking petals off of more roses and randomly dropped them on her. Some didn&#8217;t land quite right so I re-positioned a couple of them.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<p>I put one studio light to the upper left, very close to floor level, and another one as the fill light to lower right, also very close to floor level.<br \/><br \/>When I looked at the final image I decided to remove all of the color except for the rose petals and Sami&#8217;s lips. I explain how in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=28452\">this article<\/a>. Yes, her lipstick color really was this bold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is one of my all time favorite portraits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Link<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=28452\">Selective Color Removal, How to Paint on a Layer with a Color Mask<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a week and a half after Valentine&#8217;s Day and most of the dozen Valentine&#8217;s Day roses in a vase on the dining room table were done and had been thrown away, but a few were still looking good. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=28473\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28473"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28477,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28473\/revisions\/28477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}