Thank you, Peachy. I am extremely proud of it. My new program has a few features the old one didn't that are extremely helpful for making just this sort of manip. And I am beginning to get the hang of them much better. It makes me want to go back and re-do all my old ones. (I know, "Mechtild is a HOPELESS fiddler!")
Absolutely, wonderfully erotic and romantic, I agree. Omigosh, what a lot of work you went through to find that shot! You are such an artist, working hard at your craft and making sure it pleases you. And it certainly pleases us.
I have two profile shots in my userpic icons (one of which I'm using here), but regretfully I have no idea where they originated. I'm using them with permission from not_alone, in whose journal I found them over a year ago.
Thank you, Shirebound, very much. It is truly "romantic," I think, but not like a supermarket romance.
I do believe your lovely profile shot is from a "Behind the Scenes" piece. I am pretty sure that I've seen shots almost just like that one in a gallery with things from the DVD extras and promos. It seems to me that there might have been the other hobbits in the shot, too, but they've been cropped away. The finishing on your icon is excellent.
You've made a very beautiful pic there Mechtild - sweet, tender, sensuous & erotic - and the lady is beautiful but he is a thousand times more so!!
Just to confirm, you're right about Shirebound's icon - it was from one of the FOTR dvd extras - can't remember exactly which one but it was when he'd just had a big yawn!! Shirebound has done a great job with the icon:)
you're right about Shirebound's icon - it was from one of the FOTR dvd extras - can't remember exactly which one but it was when he'd just had a big yawn!!That's it! That's it! The big yawn! I am guessing it is from one of the little documentaries in the DVD extras for the theatrical release of FotR. I feel as though I've seen it really recently, and I pored over those a couple of months ago when I started making my screencaps
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Thank you, Mews. It was not that difficult once I had found a good match for the face. After that, every "blend brush" and "clone brush," and "color" and "sharpen" and "contrast" variation was a pleasure to work on
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I have not heard the name of Lorie45 at all, so I am sure I was reading a summary of a story of yours. We weren't on each other's f-lists then, so maybe it had been posted on hobbit_smut or Middle-earth News. I didn't read it, but the blurb said it was a serious story, not a comedy
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Yep, Meryl Streep about twenty years ago. Although, judging from the recent Academy Awards, she still looks great. I looked her up, and she actually played a Pre-Raphaelite beauty, in a film called "The French Lieutenant's Woman." I am guessing it must be based on the novel by the same name.
Sorry to butt in, but the French Lieutenant's Woman WAS based on the novel by John Fowles, it was made in 1980. It was filmed at Lyme Regis, a gorgeous little seaside town just 12 miles from where I live. There is a very famous scene with Meryl Streep walking down the Cobb (here: http://www.dp-now.com/archives/000379/sep2003/images/Keith%20Lee.jpg)
Isn't that where scenes from the 1995 film of Persuasion was shot -- Lyme Regis, with the characters walking along the Cobb? (One of my top ten films ever.) Watching that scene in Persuasion made me want to go there badly, the light was so beautiful.
I never did see all of The French Lieutenant's Woman all the way through, although I read the book. Did the book go back and forth between centuries the way the film did? I found that a little disconcerting. Loved the scenery, though.
She reminds me of Rosamunda, too, *secret smile*, but more in her expression than in the actual features of her face. It is the face of a woman who has lost her soul to another.
I picture Rosa as really, really attractive (although not truly pretty for a female Took), but in a hobbity way. To me that means softer features -- faces with more rounded edges. The only hobbit I allow to have such chiselled features is Frodo. *guilty laugh*
Meryl Streep (and I keep thinking the woman actually was Meryl Streep, since the photo study was from 1988), to me, looked ravishing, but in a very aristocratic, patrician sort of way. Like a beautiful Roman matron.
If she were to play a woman in LotR, I'd cast her as a noble woman of Gondor, or as one of those very tragic first-age elves who fell for Turin. I think this woman would be GREAT playing the sorrowful, soulful Finduillas, for instance -- the one whom Turin spurned and the Orcs killed with a spear after they'd tied her and the other captives from Nargothrond to stakes. *sob*
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The hair! The Look! That is sensational. I bow to your skills, Mechtild. And how I want to be that woman.
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I have two profile shots in my userpic icons (one of which I'm using here), but regretfully I have no idea where they originated. I'm using them with permission from not_alone, in whose journal I found them over a year ago.
*admires*
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I do believe your lovely profile shot is from a "Behind the Scenes" piece. I am pretty sure that I've seen shots almost just like that one in a gallery with things from the DVD extras and promos. It seems to me that there might have been the other hobbits in the shot, too, but they've been cropped away. The finishing on your icon is excellent.
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Just to confirm, you're right about Shirebound's icon - it was from one of the FOTR dvd extras - can't remember exactly which one but it was when he'd just had a big yawn!! Shirebound has done a great job with the icon:)
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I won't walk down it - too scared of heights!!!
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I never did see all of The French Lieutenant's Woman all the way through, although I read the book. Did the book go back and forth between centuries the way the film did? I found that a little disconcerting. Loved the scenery, though.
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*hint, hint* ;)
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I picture Rosa as really, really attractive (although not truly pretty for a female Took), but in a hobbity way. To me that means softer features -- faces with more rounded edges. The only hobbit I allow to have such chiselled features is Frodo. *guilty laugh*
Meryl Streep (and I keep thinking the woman actually was Meryl Streep, since the photo study was from 1988), to me, looked ravishing, but in a very aristocratic, patrician sort of way. Like a beautiful Roman matron.
If she were to play a woman in LotR, I'd cast her as a noble woman of Gondor, or as one of those very tragic first-age elves who fell for Turin. I think this woman would be GREAT playing the sorrowful, soulful Finduillas, for instance -- the one whom Turin spurned and the Orcs killed with a spear after they'd tied her and the other captives from Nargothrond to stakes. *sob*
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