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Caryatid – remix

by Alex Ledante September 26, 2018, 11:56 pm 216 Views 7 Votes 19 Comments

So many of you have seen my caryatid piece, which is the final painting for my Dia de los Muertos shows this year. I thought it looked nice but when I went to print it, the piece was WAY too dark. Instead of trying to calibrate it to print right, I just reworked the entire thing. Here are all the variants…

#1 raw image

so then I decided just to lighten the whole work up and do a sunset piece, because the hour between sunset and nightfall is when the door opens

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Deepizzaguy says:

October 24, 2018 at 6:51 am

I did not know that you build computers. That is amazing.

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- Alex Ledante says:
  
  October 25, 2018 at 3:44 am
  
  to get the machine I want, I have to build it myself…
  
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Deepizzaguy says:

October 25, 2018 at 6:26 am

That is true since good printers are hard to find.

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- Alex Ledante says:
  
  October 27, 2018 at 2:08 am
  
  Mind you, I just build systems, not printers…
  
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Deepizzaguy says:

October 29, 2018 at 3:16 am

Thank you for correcting me on this matter.

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- Alex Ledante says:
  
  October 29, 2018 at 3:36 am
  
  PC clones are meant to be built from parts- printers are pretty part specific…
  
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#2 soft filter

But if you're gonna do a sunset piece, why not throw in a soft filter lens? Generally when I darken my work, I tend to vignette the corners to keep the focus on the center. Turns out you can do that when you lighten a piece too, but it is a bit more tricky...

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Deepizzaguy says:

September 27, 2018 at 6:44 am

The lighter image looks nicer.

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- Alex Ledante says:
  
  September 28, 2018 at 12:58 am
  
  at least you can see it…
  
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#3 volumetrics

if you're going to do a golden hour shot, why not add in some god rays?

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Deepizzaguy says:

October 4, 2018 at 6:22 am

I see that you like to light in the area of the art work.

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- Alex Ledante says:
  
  October 5, 2018 at 4:55 am
  
  light on form is my guiding principle…
  
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Deepizzaguy says:

October 13, 2018 at 6:19 am

I can see that the lighting part of your art is your best part.

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- Alex Ledante says:
  
  October 15, 2018 at 3:45 am
  
  sometimes it takes the longest, but worth it
  
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Deepizzaguy says:

October 20, 2018 at 10:36 pm

I see that you like legwarmers in your artwork.

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- Alex Ledante says:
  
  October 21, 2018 at 4:26 am
  
  how can you tell she’s wearing legwarmers?!?
  
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#4 original recipe

it looks fine here but it printed out almost entirely black, so much for WYSIWYG

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Deepizzaguy says:

October 17, 2018 at 6:25 am

That is true since storms in our lives makes us better.

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- Alex Ledante says:
  
  October 18, 2018 at 2:49 am
  
  this is what Nietzsche meant when he said “That which does not kill us makes us stronger”
  
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Deepizzaguy says:

October 22, 2018 at 10:19 pm

I have heard of the expression from the late Rowdy Roddy Piper but I did not who said it.

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- Alex Ledante says:
  
  October 23, 2018 at 3:16 am
  
  it is both often quoted and misunderstood…
  
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Deepizzaguy says:

November 4, 2018 at 9:56 pm

There are some slogans that have been twisted over the years.

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- Alex Ledante says:
  
  November 4, 2018 at 11:17 pm
  
  or just misunderstood since day one
  
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  - Deepizzaguy says:
    
    November 6, 2018 at 6:33 am
    
    You are correct on this call since some slogans do change due to circumstances.
    
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