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[quote name='anyscreenamewilldo' timestamp='1300416377' post='6922']

hellooo ph,

i hope you are not referring to my magnificent effort in extracting beautiful pictures from these tiny files??



. . . . but yes, agree with everything you say about the shoot and the lighting - a most important attribute, and being nice to the subject, setting the scene et al -



but post has it's place also i hope - and i'm not sure a nice picture has always to be just a photograph . . .



and, fun filters are fun to have a look at too on the journey to the better picture (i'd never thought about straightening faces before) . . . especially when the advertisement is inserted here . . . click . . . click . . .

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Don't get me wrong, your transformation of the pictures was amazing ... it's just that it probably doesn't help someone become a better photographer. Maybe a better photographic artist, but the stage before that is important too.



Of course, everyone should click on the Ad a few times <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

but I'm a bit old school - I think it's even important what mood the model is in when you take a photo, how I relate to him/her, the make-up, the clothes etc. so far, photoshop hasn't come up with a filter to adjust these parameters. <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />