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Published: 2011-05-22 23:49:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 549; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 0
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Mona Lisa had the day off...Frances. Circa 1991.
Nikon FM3. Ilford HP5
Scanned from negative.
Several million dust spots removed in PS Elements.
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A good one, Liz! A lot of the portrait shooters here could learn a thing or two from this. 
I always have to struggle to find something pretty about the original Mona Lisa. Maybe it just is Leonardo in drag.
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This was shot in my hubby's old painting studio, he was sharing with a photographer at the time, which was nice 
I had a wonderful lecturer in 20th Century Irish Literature, he also worked as a tour guide during the summer in Joyce's martello tower. One lecture turned into a story-telling session about visitors to Buck Mulligan's tower, the favorite with the class was "the photographic rituals of Japanese tourists." We made him tell it again during our last lecture, and even provided newspapers so that he could act out part of the rituals. The newspapers were to protect bottoms from cold stone seats, perhaps the silly hats detract from the disappointment most seem to suffer when they see the Mona Lisa for the first time?
Leonardo in drag....
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Leonardo was ... er... male, but not too fanatic about it, maybe that helped. 
The Da Vinci Code has the hidden metanarrative that it is actually a novel about a writer who's trying to write the Great European Novel, but gets subconsciously driven to write a hideous cashcow because of his unanswered love for his cubist Arts teacher and
It gets hallucinatingly clear if you multiply every letter of it with 62.3348, square the result with the sinus of the leylines between Glastonbury, Slough and the Eiffel Tower, and finally subtract the Pantone numbers of Lady Gaga's hair on any given day.
After all, it's not called a Code for nothing.
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Yes, Da Vinci had also some issues with dust sticking on the fresh paint.
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Poor man. I believe he invented a vacuum cleaner, but he couldn't find anywhere to plug it in
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w e . a l r e a d y . k n o w . t h a t . i . l i k e . t h i s . p h o t o
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i like it very much.
Why did you remove the dust - many times, imperfection adds to the beauty of a photo - old or new...
in any case, lovely portrait, Liz!
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Most of the dust spots were concentrated in two areas of the negative, there was a large patch on the right, just above her head. Ugly, distracting and very annoying! I scanned about 20 negatives from this session, I don't understand why this one was the muckiest
I'm really happy you like it. Thanks Crina!
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Hanan is right (as always), though Frances has it more with the eyes, then with the smile
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It took several cans of 
Thanks Ulrich
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Well, what an expensive shooting this was
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and i said it before i think, on another portrait, lovely model!
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