She just wore enough for modesty - no more.
I scare myself. Perhaps I need help…
Canon 450D
F-stop: 5
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO-speed: 400
Focal length: 43mm.
Edited on photoshop CS3.
Experimenting with make-up and, er, terrifying myself to my very soul.
Please tell me how I can improve this. It just doesn’t look right. I mean, photographically, the subject matter is clearly not “right”
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Lozzle
i think the makeup isn’t grisly enough for the image
otherwise – fantastic!!!
lollipoppins replied
How can I make the makeup more grisly without doing it again?
Sam Fletcher
Could you darken the make up around the mouth, so you don’t see the skin as much?
lollipoppins replied
Is that a little better?
Alice Oates
You need…help…not with photography, tho i agree with above comments…but still…
lollipoppins replied
Hehe. Should show Mr Lewis. I wonder what he’d have to say about it…
Colin Tobin
Quite unsettling.
Great photo.
Sam Fletcher
That’s much better than it was. How are you so good? Nice one!
Lozzle
uh, dont think so. oh well – its awesome as it is :P
charitygrace
Spooky but very well-done
Jessica Walker
Eerie, I actually thought from the thumbnail image this would be a photo manipulation. Great work with the makeup. You fooled me!
Emsky
WOOOAW! That’s terrifying. And awesome…and….cooool =D (has become very inarticulate)
BigD
Excellent work, Lolliepoppins
MissMiller
Wow. Intense, and a little scary. Well done!
DragonFlyer
Congrats! If you’re scaring yourself with this – relax. If you weren’t THEN I’d be worried. And – I don’t think it’s you who need counselling – I think (from my professional opinion (lol)) that you have such great insight into the human condition that it’s you who should counsel others!
My only comment re the image itself is that it would be ‘stronger’ (if that’s all that possible) if it was not possible to tell that it’s makeup. A real ‘facepiece’ of some kind… and I MIGHT play around with extending it down and across the base of the image a little to add a bit more movement to the composition (?)
But – great work :)))
K xx
DragonFlyer
No problems – and I think you’re a pretty awesome artist! (and just a secret – all pretty awesome artists HAVE TO be just that tiny bit ‘not sane’ at times so that they can be so awesome… but – that’s no problem… unless you hold it in and don’t let it out in your art :))) And my skills at PS are pretty limited too – but it’s a heap of fun playing around and learning…
Cheers :)))
K xx
lollipoppins replied
Hehe, I agree with the bit about artists have to not be sane, I think that’s where the ‘creative’ bit comes from :P ..I don’t agree with the bit about me being an awesome artist though, teehee.
Ahh yeah, best bit about photoshop is when you discover things you didn’t know before, that makes your pics 100x better. :D
xx
Alice Oates
A lot
lollipoppins replied
A lot?
German Saravanja
Scary!
Alice Oates
you were wondering what mr lewis would say to this: a lot!
lollipoppins replied
Ahh, that makes sense.
butchart
saw this featured in the intrigue group…. wonderful work…congratulations….... love the spiritual feel of this…. it asks for answers to questions…...... b
artbymariS
That creeps me out!Well done :)
Colleen Milburn
Hi sweetheart – I don’t know if I’m now looking at an image that has bee re-worked since you loaded it, but whatever the case, I absolutely ADORE this. It is an easy fave for me – superbly done, you rock :)))))
lollipoppins replied
Yeah, it has been slightly reworked since I uploaded it. Regardless, thank you so much! Aww I’m really chuffed now. You made my day :D Thank you!
Colleen Milburn
OK, I just had to come back to this. The reason, I think, why it works is because it’s obviously a ‘factual’ work. If you processed it any more in some editing software you MAY get a somewhat more ‘fantasy’ look, but I think that would be ruining it. It works because it is real, because it evokes a ‘dark’ sense which I love about this, something about ‘ordinary’ people and their ‘underworld’. Not sure if this makes sense, but there you go… lol!
lollipoppins replied
I get what you mean, :) Thank you so much!
Arek Rainczuk
Fantastic shot -and make-up.
Congrats on Top10
Kelsey Williams
Frightening, yet beautiful!
thericho
I like it. It really has that eerie feel to it. Would be great for a movie poster.
Selkie
You talented creature you…i hope you never, ever put down the camera.
navybrat
powerful!
Faizan Qureshi
Fantastic!
grimduke1
I think the image is great as is!.....The only thing i’d change would be to put a (very) small highlight in the eye! Just to give the eye some life.
lollipoppins replied
Ah, I hear you. I see what you mean now you’ve pointed it out. I’ll do that soon, and tell you when I have. Thank you!! :D
Claire Haslope
wonderfully spooky! well done!.... i got the heeby jeebies :)
JustSaul
Very creepy I love it. She should have been smirking to enhance the creepy factor.
P45K
i really dig this one too…
KellyThomas
freeeeeeeaaakkky! Great post editing and use of space. Great shot!
sonjas
Scary but excellent. Great shot.
Thierry Vincent
Really freaky! To me it definitely works like that. The details of the skin are enough, the tonality is very well achieved and, last but not least, the composition is (just) perfect.
terugvanver
Wonderful light and contrast
cammiecakes
I was wondering if you would consider adding this or anything else that might fit into the “Scary Are Us Group.” We would love to have anything that you might like to share. Thank you!!
http://www.redbubble.com/groups/scary-are-us
Kate Litzow
i like it!.. but then again ive been told im messed up on more than one occasion so maybe im not the best judge..
you have some really great work!!
=)
aspectsoftmk
exceptional!!!!! every bit of it..
James Leader
That’s spooky. I like spooky.
Jeremy Bratton
cool
wayneg
scary, i like it
babibell
the eye is cool & scary
how…?
Ross Spencer
I love this.. Very very creepy :D
KreddibleTrout 29 days ago
massively creepy. excellent.