parasitegirl | Nathan's photos

I have now downloaded Nathan's photos from the July 26th shoot and have started playing around with photoshop.

I gotta say, once you have the tiniest clue as to what you are doing, touch up with photoshop is fun! I'm not doing any radical body morphing or anything, no fears that I am going to re-shape my tummy and accidentally remove my navel, just little tweeks to how an accessory hangs to bump up composition or addressing those things about a photo that barely register when someone else views it but seem like HUGE issues to the subject (nearly non-existent crows-feet, lightening under-eye bags, tucking in costumes bits and the slightest hint of muffintops) so that I look like the me that my over-pick self can publish, and I still look like the me that other people know.

I showed you guys this one as soon as I got it. If things go well, in each photoshoot there should be a shot where you can say "Yup, it was worth the hassle for just this one shot!" and in Nathan's set, this is it!.

Just purty

There are better full body shots of me, and I don't think I'd use this for publicity, but this does reflect the goofy grin I get,.

For when creating flyers for shows with multiple dancers and you just need a quick visual...could work. And that fringe is a thing of beauty!

filter fun on Nathan's side.

Some Zar

What we are doing with photoshop this weekend:

I'm SURE I've got some OCD leaning readers who understand why I did this

Necklace centered, now the OCD can focus on the smile or at least relax

Nathan gave this to me in full color and in black and white, first I cleaned up TIIIIINY little things on the b&w.

Hard to see at this size, but I smoothed my lip-line, pushed together the fabric around my zipper to de-emphasize it, removed some hair frizz on my forehead and poked in the smallest bit of muffin-top above my skirt.

In almost every shoot results I've seen of Nathan he's played around with removing all but one color or range of colors on at least one image. I enjoy it, from a arty-geek-play perspective...but think the removae of skin color for me makes me look too harsh. So, on a variation of this theme I used the untouched(by me) color image he'd sent me(below) and the B&W one, and played aorund with layers, color saturation, until I could get something more "hand tinted" looking...which is my visual shout out to Daphnep
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