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"Fear"
Image Title:  "Fear"
 
 By: Jim McNitt  
  Copyright ©2003



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Photographer Jim McNitt {K:11246}
Project N/A Camera Model Nikon 990
Categories Photoart
Film Format
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Uploaded 7/22/2003 Film / Memory Type Lexar FC
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Critiques 14 Rating
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About This seems to be my day for uploading macabre images. The background for this photo illustration was created from skull photos taken in the Paris Catacombs. The character in the foreground is a detail from a sculpture at the entrace of the Neuberger Museum on the campus of Purachase College in Westchester Country, NY. The manipulations included, appropriately enough, application of the Tormentia filter as well as layer blending, desaturation and colorization. One very good photographer, a physician, remarked that she found this image humorous because of the apparent smiles on some of the skulls. Your thoughts and reactions would be much appreciated.
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There are 14 Comments in 1 Pages
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Antonio Trincone   {K:23167} 7/22/2003
the composition could be improved by placing the foreground subject a bit on the left; lighting may cause a flattening effect to that give a loss of distance fore/back ground. Very original though, may be blue casting is too much obvious, may be red or purple color should contrast well with the subject of the shot


Terry McCully   {K:9221} 7/22/2003
WOW..fear is right..This one is really cool..I like the detail throughout this one. The skulls are simply cool. Like the blues...


Ari A. Alves (alvesari)   {K:7730} 7/22/2003
I like this. Good composition.


Jose Ignacio (Nacho) Garcia Barcia   {K:94480} 7/22/2003
great blues.maybe the composition...?you may look beauty on the streets.



zero kid   {K:94} 7/22/2003
:)


T L   {K:18928} 7/22/2003
Well to me this is scary... amazing work and colors.


MaryBell    {K:32791} 7/22/2003
The comp is good and the PS work is, of course, outstanding - what I wonder about is the color - blue is a cool color which creates emotional distance imo. How about something less obvious than red? Brownish yellows, muddy oranges and sick (yellowish greens) - controlled and applied variably?

Mary


Ronny Van Eeckhoutte   {K:12734} 7/22/2003
what a delightful abstract image - made me look twice .
thank you for your feedback and nice words. It means a lot to me. Thank you.


Dave M   {K:9043} 7/22/2003
Jim, I can sense you are a big fan of blue, but I must concur with Mary here. I'd love to see this in an alternate treatment or perhaps even just a simple b&w. Of course, that's subjective opinion. On its own, the composition is powerful and emotive. Bravo.


Jim McNitt   {K:11246} 7/22/2003
Hi Mary & Dave:

Always on the lookout for a more complicated way to do things in PS, I didn't just destaturate this. Instead, I converted to Grayscale, created a quadtone, used the color picker to select black, white and two shades of gray, then used duotone curves adjustments to jigger the tones. In the end I came up with.... something that's probably visually no different from a simple desat., but involved ever so many fullfilling keystrokes.



Jim McNitt   {K:11246} 7/22/2003
Think I kinda go for the blue. U?


MaryBell    {K:32791} 7/22/2003
too silvery and cool - I still want it grittier - how about some grain (I know I am obnoxious).


Naty Z   {K:16486} 7/25/2003
I agree with Mary. Blue to me is a relaxing colour, I would have liked to see this kinda red or something. But it's a great work anyway!


Kim Culbert   {K:37013} 8/15/2003
The B&W is nice, but the blue tone is what drew me here in the first place. It gives off a sneaking-in-the-dark-under-a-full-moon kind of look.
Excellent job mergring the photos together... I would have never noticed!


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