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My first image

jimreadjimread Posts: 39
edited July 2022 in Art Studio

Hello all,

I like to make figure in the landscape images and have done so using myself and other people as models posing in homes and than montaging them into suitable scenes that I'v taken myself.

I found DS a week or so ago and a couple of days later made this. I did look at Mr Parmy Baddhan's tutorials which I found to be very good indeed.

I'd done the pose myself so was able to copy it.

Cheers - J

[edit] 27/07/2022 The pic had gone, I think this was the one so I hosted and posted it.

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Comments

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,244

    Nice work. Welcome to the Daz forums.

  • Lothar WeberLothar Weber Posts: 1,611

    Welcome to the DAZ family heart

  • jimreadjimread Posts: 39

    Thanks barbult and Thanks Lothar. Good of you both to comment.

    I like to have a back story to my images, I call my model K. Thorn.

    Dance for the day

    "The location is only known to the few who care to take a long walk mostly uphill. One hears much that is derogatory about Morris Dancing and yet adjacent to this spot is where they dance on Midsummer morning. Not for an audience but for themselves, a beautiful thing to do on a significant day.

    K's pose is in homage to them, looking towards the place were they dance."

    Cheers - J

     

     

  • junkjunk Posts: 1,327

    Welcome Jimread!  And what a fantastic first image!  Your artistic eye shows through and can't wait to see what other beautiful work you create.  Also, the back story really adds depth and is much appreciated.  You'll find that the Daz community is a wonderful and very supportive group.  Ask any question and I'd be surprised if you didn't get at least three replies within a few hours. 

  • jimreadjimread Posts: 39

    Hello Junk,

    Thanks very much for your comment, I feel a complete fraud in the face of all the expertise I find here, knowing very little about the program and just being able to create one figure at a time. At the moment though that is all I wish to do.

    Years ago (probably 50) I used to haunt the photographic section of Rummidge's reference library, 100's and 100's of photo books. One day I came across "The Soul of the blasted Pine" by Anne W Brigman who in 1908 posed for this self image in the Sierra Nevada. She is now an All American Heroine feted at colleges and universities for her ground breaking work. It was a life changing moment, such is the power of some images to do so. Ever since I have striven to make figure in the landscape images, using myself and lots of models and mostly failing.

    DS has freed me from the constraints of trying to get; the right day, the right weather, the right time and the right model to coincide into a good image. Those limitations are gone now and others like being able to pose properly along with them.

    I'm pleased that you liked the 'back' story I do try to explain, I realised some years ago that I was taking photos and leaving room for a figure, without thinking consciously about it.

    I will ask questions, as I delve more into the software I'm sure I will come up against some brick walls and need advice.

    Cheers - J

  • junkjunk Posts: 1,327

    Jim, no you're doing great!  I think all of us started with such frustrating moments.  I still find my arms moving through body parts and spend hours, days just trying to get things just right.

    I do find DS so liberating too and it's amazing that we can create not only a person in a forest, but a person amongst the strangest alien landscapes or city streets in ruins, or whatever.

    Yes, I love reading more about an image.  Often it's unfortunate to see a beautiful image with no description at all posted in the gallery.  Me.. I love not only creating an image but trying to give it a story... add the fourth dimension kind of thing.  That's my interest but everyone is different.  I believe sometimes, people hate that I try to create stories but to each is own. 

    My only suggestion is to just stick with it, no matter what.  Only time is what will get you better, more fluent and more appreciative of this wonderful tool.  I can't wait to see what you create and upload to the gallery.  Nice to meet you and thank you for telling me/us what got you into photography and then Daz.

  • junkjunk Posts: 1,327

    Oh and I find models, at least in the Sacramento California area, GIANT flakes.  I've had three of the three models I set up for a photoshoot just not show up.  No phone calls, no texts, nothing.  So I feel your pain when you explained about the right day, right time, right model, etc. just not work out.  I guess I need to offer real money and lots of it to get it to work out.  I personally am so fed up with my experiences that I just gave up on photography about two years ago.  Thank goodness DS is here for me at least.

  • jimreadjimread Posts: 39

    Hello Junk,

    I just looked up the word flake I'd not heard the term before. Hmmmm it's a good word :-)

    I didn't realise that if I put a pic in my gallery it showed up on the site Gallery, thanks for that.

    Cheers - J

  • IlenaIlena Posts: 283

    Good job and welcome to daz world. Buckle up. It's going to be a ride :)

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