Corrective Lighting, Posing & Retouching for Digital Portrait Photographers
With techniques for achieving a flawless portrait, this manual shows how to create stunning, professional images in any setting. Tips on how to delicately discuss and evaluate a subject's appearance and his or her specific concerns combine with examples on how subtle changes in lighting and posing can flatter subjectsby slimming the waist and hips, enhancing the bust, narrowing the nose, reducing a double chin, and concealing baldnesshelping portrait photographers sensitively downplay perceived flaws.
The Power of Point of View: Make Your Story Come to Life
Every Character Has a Voice Point of view isn't just an element of storytelling--when chosen carefully and employed consistently in a work of fiction, it is the foundation of a captivating story. It's the character voice you can hear as clearly as your own. It's the unique worldview that intrigues readers--persuading them to empathize with your characters and invest in their tale. It's the masterful concealing and revealing of detail that keeps pages turning and plots fresh. It's the hidden agenda that makes narrators complicated and compelling.
Added by: ninasimeo | Karma: 4370.39 | Fiction literature | 28 April 2010
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The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins
Despite the grave misgivings of both their families, Valeria and Eustace Woodville are married. But before long the new bride begins to suspect a dark secret in her husband's past and when she discovers that he has been living under a false name, she determines to find out why he is concealing his true identity from her. Soon she must endure an even greater shock: the revelation that her husband has been on trial for poisoning his first wife.
Carnivale (2003) season 1.2 [with external subtitles]
Added by: kaita | Karma: 18.75 | | 7 July 2009
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1934, America. The Dustbowl. A fugitive named Ben Hawkins finds refuge within a traveling carnival comprised of a tarot card reader and her catatonic/telekinetic mother, a blind mentalist, a bearded lady, and conjoined twins, amongst others. The carnival is owned by the mysterious and unseen Management, who has designs on the young Hawkins, for the boy is concealing an untapped gift: he can heal the lame and raise the dead--at a price. (imdb rating 9.1/10) Parental guidance: Age 18+