Moi in the mirror.

Hi JuileeP, this is fantastic…just loooove it

love the look!!

looks like an old print style from hundred thirty years ago.

peter

This has so much character, looks like the cover of a novel.
You look fantastic too.

Thanks everybody. I think maybe I should explain the look of the photo a bit more. Its taken with b/w film then solarized in the darkroom and then sepia toned and then allowed to seriously degrade. I’ve been know to line pictures up and drive the car over them not to mention using kitchen scourers etc. Then scanned and into photoshop for a bit more fiddling around and hey presto. In the portrait challenge no 2 the image is framed in a template which I made by painting out the negative with opaque red ink and then scanned so I was left with the film strip edges. Then I use it as a framing device on various images. Sometimes this one had that tempate and if you look through my portfolio there is a series called ‘After the flood’ which all have this same template applied to it. I have several different types of templates now which get put on different photos depending on the mood I’m in. I hope that helps a bit.

I’m a big user of alternative methods of image making using all types of analouge as well as digital imaging depending on the mood of the image I’m after. But all the images on my site have started life as negatives from film and then added to one way or the other. If I start to load digital picutures I’ll specify that that is what they are so its very clear. Not that I mind one way or the other but I have TONS of film work and as I’m sorting all that out thats what I’m uploading at the moment.

Thanks again for all the positive comments everybody, I just love to get some feedback especially as its been so much fun to participate in this portrait challenge :)

Wow, I didn’t know so much work went into them

Hey Dennis this is not really work. I love it beside artists don’t really have lives other than fiddling about with their pictures. Maybe I should get a hobby or a pet or maybe even a husband then I wouldn’t have to spend all my time being psyhco with my paintings and photo’s. :)

Love the texture and feeling in this shot – Great work!

Beautifully degraded hahahaa, nice work Juliee

oooh yeh. i love how you have made the image look like one of our old great grandparents photos….textured with history and time.

Thanks Janine, eventually time will catch up with me and all that will be left will be some funny old photo’s like this one. :)

Man Ray himself would be impressed with this work…................well done JP

nice shot

Why thank you heaps Barssel that is a huge compliment indeed. ManRay was a huge influence and a real genius. Thanks again and thanks to Anselmo as well.

great tones and treatment – very cool result!

Very provocative self potrait.Love it

Thanks for sharing all the info with us, Juilee. I love film but just don’t have the space to use it right now. In fact my film cameras and equipment are in a storage locker. Keep uploading and giving the wonderful insights as you can. cheers, Rany

Beautiful work! Awesome!!!!!

Why thanks Sorin. :)

LOVE IT!

Why thank you hanARGH :)

wow this is great well done and thanx for joining in

My pleasure Peter :) I love joining in and I really like it when others do to.

Fab

WOW that is alot of activity to make a shot like this.
But the final reuslt is awesome.
It looks so old.

Hi again Deon, it only seems like a lot of work but really its not. And it happens over time as well. Vacuuming now thats work and you have to do it all the time. A good picture is yours forever. Thanks again everybody for enjoying this picture.:)

Magnificent piece of art!!! And so much more!!!

Gee thanks Jarko, I’m so glad you like it. An oldie but a goldie. :)

OMG. I just read the treatment you gave this image…..now I appreciate it so much more. Fantastic work, Juilee.

Hoho, very nice… Love the solarization, I’m considering sepia toning my self-portrait now ;-)

love the solarisesd effect.
makes me want to jump back in the darkroom…

This reminds me of the photos taken by Bellocq in New Orleans with its ‘beat-up’ look.
Interesting to read about your ‘alternative’ methods too.

I like the “old effect” you gave your work… It evokes a feeling of souvenir.
Good job Juilee… :)

Thanks everybody. This is such an old image but I do love it and even with all the adobe filters in the world I don’t think I could get such a rich effect like this with out it going through the wet darkroom. Viva Analouge!

Great stuff. Love the texture created by the mirror

Thanks Henk its an oldie but a goldie this image.

oh you did that too! kind of … I like it :)

thanks …I think RoughDiamond

I really enjoy your work – you are very artistically skilled and wonderfully interpretative . You have so many techniques for exploring subject matter.
so I am very appreciative of your comments on my straight shots!
I hope you have a great trip to Antarctica – when do you go?
I wanted to send this by bubblemail, but couldn’t figure how to start a message!

Lovely work

thanks bysilent its a very old photo now but hey it still works so thanks for looking and liking it. :)

Great portrait and photo.

one awesome shot love.

browsing portfolios…. I love this one, and the tones are awesome. A winner.

Very cool photo, what effect is it? solarization?

a bit of a monkey in all of us i see…..............:)

Home Page oooh ahhhh

I see your great photo made it to the Home Page !!! congrats!!!

Home Page oooh ahhhh

I was in the wrong profile
I wanted to congratulate you myself :)

Congrats Julie, Liked the vintage feel on this the first time I saw it!

I really like this!! Very creative!

Very imaginative – love the look of an old tarnished photo – very clever

Ho ho home page. Its so so sweet!

ooh, very cool. I tried messing around with solarization and couldn’t make it work well. Any tips?

just grabbed my attention this one. very interesting

Ah ha. Mine would be in the dark room. Anyway, this gives me hope for what my solarized pictures could look like! Thanks for the inspiration!

so beautiful !!

so interesting !!

wow this is a fantastic and original self portrait ! brilliant ! and congratulations on the well deserved recognition!! :))))

amazing! glad you explained above how you did it, i would have asked if you hadn’t

Love your tecnique Juilee. Top stuff.

LOL

i dont know why your talent isnt bottled.

cool treatment

You have done a GREAT! job with this. Love it, love it. Looks like it should be in one of those padded double frame thingees, under glass. Do you know what I mean?
It’s worth every moment you spent.
Walk in beauy,
Sassi

Beautiful processing on this! Nice job!

Amazing details. This is excellent work!

really freaky cool work, love your style

it is crazy, i enjoy it

God its stunning!