_melancholy_flower. by JeanFan

melancholy flower
melon cauliflower
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A cauliflower on my head. I'm holding it up with my other hand that's amazingly (at least for self timer) not visible in this shot. Practicing extreme tone editing. Increased midtones and darkened shadows til the point my hair was a black blob. Desaturated slightly...I still have my tan

. Faded slightly. Frame, watermark, that stuff.
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Old concept. Back when I was obsessed with literalism and play on words. Finally got around to buying a cauliflower, not eating it

, and doing this shot.
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andelumud Featured By Owner Jun 18, 2011

i thought it was Shower puff OMG lol
great work !

koyangi23 Featured By Owner Jan 22, 2009

x"D I love it <3
:"> sO graceful babie <3

JeanFan Featured By Owner Jan 24, 2009 Hobbyist Photographer

PersAbsynthFaerie Featured By Owner Apr 6, 2008 Professional Interface Designer

I just love that your descriptions are so in-depth!

It's really helpful to viewers to know exactly what's going on, and how you did it so that we can learn, and I always love to read about the details behind an image

I absolutely love perusing your gallery!

JeanFan Featured By Owner Apr 6, 2008 Hobbyist Photographer

Thank you

That's the point. So everyone can try it themselves and learn

It's a big pet peeve of mine when I ask artists how they achieve an effect and they claim "it's a secret." Because in the end, it's just some technique like HDRI that's capable of being figured out; just takes a lot longer and would've saved time if they just told me

PersAbsynthFaerie Featured By Owner Apr 10, 2008 Professional Interface Designer

Awsum

I'm really glad you take the time to help others out

because personally I feel like I would be wasting my time, since I have so few watchers, but you have so many, you certainly aren't wasting your time!

JeanFan Featured By Owner Apr 12, 2008 Hobbyist Photographer

But you have to start somewhere

Helping a few is still better than helping none at all

PersAbsynthFaerie Featured By Owner Apr 13, 2008 Professional Interface Designer

Wow, you're amazing

And completely right; I'm gonna make more of an effort now to do that!

artificialXkisses Featured By Owner Mar 3, 2008 Traditional Artist

strange, but I like this

JeanFan Featured By Owner Mar 3, 2008 Hobbyist Photographer

glad you like it

afifthaway Featured By Owner Feb 14, 2008

Haha, the cauliflower's so RANDOM - beautiful lighting and all, well thought out... and oh, the cauliflower

JeanFan Featured By Owner Feb 15, 2008 Hobbyist Photographer

the cauliflower goes with the concept

haha thanks

lizenblummen Featured By Owner Feb 7, 2008

it remembers me of hiroshima and nagasaki's bomb...

wonderful shot!

JeanFan Featured By Owner Feb 8, 2008 Hobbyist Photographer

strange

thanks

ry0chan Featured By Owner Jan 4, 2008 Hobbyist General Artist

simply beautiful!!

JeanFan Featured By Owner Jan 5, 2008 Hobbyist Photographer

thank you

m-flair Featured By Owner Dec 29, 2007 Hobbyist General Artist

great concept, wordplay is awesome!

JeanFan Featured By Owner Dec 29, 2007 Hobbyist Photographer

hehe thanks

gatahada Featured By Owner Dec 22, 2007 Student General Artist

Hello, I don`t understand very much of English so I couldn´t have taken advantage completely [link]
Confused of this game words but have seen your work and I believe it´s very good. [link]
Sociable ¡Congratulations! [link]
Delighted

JeanFan Featured By Owner Dec 22, 2007 Hobbyist Photographer

Yeah, the words (melancholy flower and melon cauliflower) just sound the same in English

thanks

BrotherSeaStar Featured By Owner Dec 22, 2007

If there is one good thing about me loosing touch with my journal then returning to it a month or so late it is that I get spoilt with a new collection of your work, for you are easily my favorite photographic artist on this site.

Great colours here and the message it sends is great, Your positioning in this shot is woderful and yes well bloody done at the lack of arm thing for a self timer that kicks but!

xoxoox MERRY CHRISTMAS

JeanFan Featured By Owner Dec 22, 2007 Hobbyist Photographer

thanks

moose1 Featured By Owner Dec 6, 2007

I absolutely love this one. Great play on words.

Cauliflower is my favorite veggie. ^^
Amazing work, as always.

Nobody Featured By Owner Dec 6, 2007

hehe thanks

barcarola Featured By Owner Dec 6, 2007

creative. but! we cannot see that cauliflower clearly, can we?
we get used to your faded colors

however the background color should have been something darker, in order for us to see the cauliflower.

I like your dress by the way. and that greenish thing under your dress made me think about cauliflowers before they are picked off.

I mean their leaves and so on

JeanFan Featured By Owner Dec 6, 2007 Hobbyist Photographer

I agree that the cauliflower is a bit hard to see. But the problem is that if the background was any darker color, extreme tone editing wouldn't have worked. The background would end up like my hair; a giant black blob.

I'm not exactly sure how to respond to "we get used to your faded colors". It sounds almost as if you expect me to create because I have an audience to appease

. If art is truly your self expression, whether the audience "get[s] used to" your mode of expression should be irrelevant

MeRvE-Photography Featured By Owner Dec 5, 2007

i love the way you use colors and lightening

JeanFan Featured By Owner Dec 5, 2007 Hobbyist Photographer

glad you like 'em

MeRvE-Photography Featured By Owner Dec 9, 2007

welcome

Avenley-Brianne Featured By Owner Dec 4, 2007 Student Photographer

I love your picture! <3 You should do a tutorial sometime ;D

Anyway, great job! I love the contrast of your outfit and your hair ^^

JeanFan Featured By Owner Dec 4, 2007 Hobbyist Photographer

thanks

might be kinda hard making a tutorial because i use photoimpact5 which no one else uses

Ratafluke Featured By Owner Dec 15, 2007

Depends on which tools your program has, and whether those tools are also available in other programs. I'm using The GIMP, and I found I can make use of most Photoshop tutorials. If you want to make a tutorial, don't go into the details such in which menu to go or which shortcut to use. Just explain what you did, and people who know their way around their own graphic program can follow your steps. (For example: What exactly did you increase about the midtones?)

I just thought there was some big white flower on your head, didn't even notice it was a cauliflower. So I mused about melancholy until I spotted your dress and burst out laughing! Reminds me of a cauliflower with leaves, that green

Nifty play on props and clothes