R.C. Loveland's photostream  

This one I was just having fun with. I was playing around with a set of Eyelash brush sets. Pretty fun stuff. Although they would probably look ridiculous in real life, I think they really add to this.

Played around a few other techniques as well. I need to work on the eyebrows though...'cause these look horrible. Not good at it.

I hope that's right. I don't speak French.

So, this is the first photo that I literally spent several hours on editing. I'm sure once I'm not looking at instructions every five seconds, it'll go a long a lot faster.

This was not my original intention. I just planned on desaturating the image a little more than it already was. But I stumbled upon a section in Scott Kelby's book on "porcelain skin". I thought it was perfect. My eyeliner is black, my necklace and earrings are black, my nails are black, and the weird stuff on my hand is black. I really loved the way it turned out.

It's not perfect, of course. I don't have the best looking skin, and you can kind of see where I blurred it.

I will be posting a "before and after" in a short bit. Just for gee-wiz. Because I looove it.

Look for Scott Kelby's books Light It, Shoot It, Retouch It and Professional Portrait Retouching Techniques for Photographers using Photoshop.

They're fifty bucks each, but I got mine at Amazon for around 20 bucks each a few months ago. I would gladly pay full price.

More snowflakes! It was actually in the middle of the day when it was snowing for once, so I went out and took some pictures.

Once my hands went numb I figured it was probably time to go in.

More snowflakes! It was actually in the middle of the day when it was snowing for once, so I went out and took some pictures.

Once my hands went numb I figured it was probably time to go in.