And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
And yet diminished by the photographer's choice to use ring lights instead of point sources for the 'eye lights' that give life to a subject. I hate the modern ring light, the effect on 'eye lights' is totally artificial.
nick
(there is an interesting discussion of 'eye lights' in the commentary for the Lord of the Rings dvd, they talk about using a string of fairy lights (christmas lights to US audiences) for Galadriel to give her an otherworldly appearance. Once you see it, it's hard to not see.)
Gorgeous! Petite...what's not to like?
ReplyDeleteWhere do you find all these dolls? I'm sure they're not from around AL.
ReplyDeleteAn exotic beauty.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet diminished by the photographer's choice to use ring lights instead of point sources for the 'eye lights' that give life to a subject. I hate the modern ring light, the effect on 'eye lights' is totally artificial.
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(there is an interesting discussion of 'eye lights' in the commentary for the Lord of the Rings dvd, they talk about using a string of fairy lights (christmas lights to US audiences) for Galadriel to give her an otherworldly appearance. Once you see it, it's hard to not see.)
It's very distracting.
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