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Description
Enchanting as the moon, wild as the foxes that run below it. Feral and untamed as the woods they haunt.
Beware travelers through wooded paths who do not regard the flora and fauna as they would their own kin.
These playful vixens will misguide you with smiling eyes to your demise.
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David from PDMedia Photography MM#1390552 aksed me on MM if I'd like to collaborate with him. Normally I create my own costumes, do the model photoshoot myself, and try to mainly use my own photography for stock... However, currently my costuming materials are all in storage and my current living situation doesn't provide much ability for shooting, so I thought why not. He sent me a batch of images to choose from and when I saw the one of Virginia P lying on the bed, I knew what I wanted to do. Didn't really need a costume for this one, so that worked out well. I really want to get back to shooting more soon, but in the meantime perhaps I'll collaborate with other photographers a bit more.

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Model: Virginia P - MM #212966 [link]
Virginia P Photographed by: PDMedia Photography: MM #1390552 [link]
Background Photography, Hand Model, Photomanipulation & Layout: =JayelDraco
Jayel Draco © 2011 All Rights Reserved
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Here is a link to the photographic breakdown of primary layers used for this image:

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Problem: Depth of field is something that we're used to seeing in so many terrific photographs.
Unfortunately the lack there of is often what makes photomanipulations fall short of grace in the eye of it's audience. When you add focal depth well, it's hardly noticeable. However, when you don't add it,
the resulting work often looks a bit off.

Solution: Decide what plain you want to have in focus (typically I choose characters as my focal point).
Make each plain in front and behind your focal plain progressively more blurred as the distance increases.

Example: In this piece, my character is in focus while the the hand she's laying on starts off in focus and fades into a blur as it goes back in space. I used feathered selections to apply a slight gaussian blur to the furthest reaches of my hand. Then I grew my selection and blurred it again and continued to do so several times until the hand had a gradient of blur leading up to the focal point. I applied this same technique to the background only more so, I continued until the whole background had a gradient of blur to it.

_____RESPECT________________________________________________________________________________

As always, I will greatly appreciate your questions comments and critiques
but please RESPECT THE MODEL or the whole internet will know you are not cool. . .

Description
Enchanting as the moon, wild as the foxes that run below it. Feral and untamed as the woods they haunt.
Beware travelers through wooded paths who do not regard the flora and fauna as they would their own kin.
These playful vixens will misguide you with smiling eyes to your demise.
_____ABOUT__________________________________________________________________________________

David from PDMedia Photography MM#1390552 aksed me on MM if I'd like to collaborate with him. Normally I create my own costumes, do the model photoshoot myself, and try to mainly use my own photography for stock... However, currently my costuming materials are all in storage and my current living situation doesn't provide much ability for shooting, so I thought why not. He sent me a batch of images to choose from and when I saw the one of Virginia P lying on the bed, I knew what I wanted to do. Didn't really need a costume for this one, so that worked out well. I really want to get back to shooting more soon, but in the meantime perhaps I'll collaborate with other photographers a bit more.

_____CREDITS________________________________________________________________________________

Model: Virginia P - MM #212966 [link]
Virginia P Photographed by: PDMedia Photography: MM #1390552 [link]
Background Photography, Hand Model, Photomanipulation & Layout: =JayelDraco
Jayel Draco © 2011 All Rights Reserved
________________________________________________________________________

Here is a link to the photographic breakdown of primary layers used for this image:

___TIP______________________________________________________________________________________

Problem: Depth of field is something that we're used to seeing in so many terrific photographs.
Unfortunately the lack there of is often what makes photomanipulations fall short of grace in the eye of it's audience. When you add focal depth well, it's hardly noticeable. However, when you don't add it,
the resulting work often looks a bit off.

Solution: Decide what plain you want to have in focus (typically I choose characters as my focal point).
Make each plain in front and behind your focal plain progressively more blurred as the distance increases.

Example: In this piece, my character is in focus while the the hand she's laying on starts off in focus and fades into a blur as it goes back in space. I used feathered selections to apply a slight gaussian blur to the furthest reaches of my hand. Then I grew my selection and blurred it again and continued to do so several times until the hand had a gradient of blur leading up to the focal point. I applied this same technique to the background only more so, I continued until the whole background had a gradient of blur to it.

_____RESPECT________________________________________________________________________________

As always, I will greatly appreciate your questions comments and critiques
but please RESPECT THE MODEL or the whole internet will know you are not cool. . .