Portrait Adella

wow very powerful, if this is only the test shot, then cant wait for the actual one

I cannot imagine the time in post that you spend achieving this painterly look but it is worth every minute and hour. This is amazing!

amazing shot !

Amazing work, Barbara! I logged in just to rate it and follow you! Thanks for the inspiration!

Beautiful lighting and colour palette which really complement each other, and the pose. I like the post production too. Beautiful all round.

Amazing photograph!

You are so talented, your photos do look like the work of old masters.

It doesn't need a better model. I love it just the way it is. You might have overly smoothed her face, and I personally would have used more contrast and saturation, but that's just me. The color and lighting seem perfect to me. I like the very direct interaction of model with camera.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiaroscuro
With a little more contrast, it would neatly fit this fine art technique.

But even at the current contrast, I feel that it still meets the following wikipedia definition of a variant of the technique:
"It is also a technical term used by artists and art historians for the use of contrasts of light to achieve a sense of volume in modelling three-dimensional objects and figures."

fabulous photo barbra