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SargentRay
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Tony Hoffer wrote:
After looking at your photos, I was confused an didn't get it. Then I looked at the inspiration shots and started to understand a bit more of what you were going for.

However, what makes the inspiration shots so successful is the manipulation of sizes and shapes of the people's features rather than the post processing. To me, the inspiration shots are very clean, but it's simply all about altering perspective based on size manipulation.

I think you focused too hard on post-processing techniques in your images (in particular the skin softening and cheesy lens flare), but didn't go far enough
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Hmmm very precious input here Tony Hoffer, must say it was my real inner battle, although i did enlarge head, mouth and eye size (and sometime ear) i was constantly second guessing myself: Was i going too far in changing the faces' physionomie since kids already have disproportionate head to body proportions ? You're really giving me a valuable point of view here. Especially since i had already observed that Girotto's work was more emphasized on proportion than skin retouching indeed. Although he does something magical with the skin that really make peach fuzz obvious. But he never revealed his "secrets" stating it would kill the magic if he did. Of course i interpreted this as a potential reduction of business going his way if he made "making of" videos. Quite understandable i'm not judging here if i had such a secret i would probably keep it to myself as well.

This being said i might have one or two shots i could still experiment with from this series. If i find another suitable one i will work more on the proportions and perspective than the skin retouching.

Thank you Tony for a most valuable criticism. I really appreciate it :-)



Apr 18, 2014 at 08:22 AM
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Tony Hoffer wrote:
After looking at your photos, I was confused an didn't get it. Then I looked at the inspiration shots and started to understand a bit more of what you were going for.

However, what makes the inspiration shots so successful is the manipulation of sizes and shapes of the people's features rather than the post processing. To me, the inspiration shots are very clean, but it's simply all about altering perspective based on size manipulation.

I think you focused too hard on post-processing techniques in your images (in particular the skin softening and cheesy lens flare), but didn't go far enough
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^^^ This. ^^^^



Apr 18, 2014 at 10:10 AM
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p.2 #3 · p.2 #3 · Cartoon effect, pursuing a vision.


So I did nearly the opposite as you Ray. I focused on the features and didn't pay enough attention to the overall effect.


Julian is one of my grandsons and he was thrilled with his cartoon but my daughter thought it was 'creepy'.

If you're interested here is a link..

Julian as a cartoon

Edited on Apr 18, 2014 at 02:38 PM · View previous versions



Apr 18, 2014 at 10:18 AM
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Greg, don't forget to remove the "s" from the http tag in flickr.

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5306/13924316784_62aa704044_c.jpg



Apr 18, 2014 at 10:19 AM
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Thanks Ron.

Greg



Apr 18, 2014 at 10:21 AM
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p.2 #6 · p.2 #6 · Cartoon effect, pursuing a vision.


Wow excellent job Greg, really a great cartoon effect here and it only show how much i've deviated from the genre in my studies of the it. Love the facial attributes in general but especially the eyes and freckles :-)

I'm impressed :-)



Apr 18, 2014 at 10:49 AM
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