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Art?!

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So everyone has their own interpretation of what ART is. As photographers, we tend to fall into 2 categories. The minimalist. (a person who tends to stay true to his image) For the sake of discussion, we will call the other... the "non" minimalist. :0) Now I will gladly say, I am certainly a "non" minimalist! I wanted to share one of my latest images with you. It is a picture of my daughter Holly. I saw an image by another photographer and wanted to try and capture something close. I love how the image came out. It truly does represent Holly. She is not the smiley happy kid. At 20 she has grown into her own person, she is deep and focused. I used a simple Gradient Map to change the image to black and white. I used the spot healing brush to tidy up her face. I added a texture that had a brownish tone. I duplicated the texture so I had two layers. On the bottom layer I changed the blend mode to softlight. The layer that was above it was left on normal mode an...