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I love suggestive images. They are free to be interpreted
as the viewer wishes. They do not carry and baggage of
"correctness". They are inherently interesting because of
what is not said and must be seen, connected, interpreted.
Talking of "correctness", Magritte was lurking round one of his exhibitions when two elderly women accosted him, proclaiming that in the picture in front of them the "ladies arm is too long". Magritte replied to the contrary, the ladies arm was fine, the picture showed it to be too long. Technique: The obvious effect is just another hit with some suitable filter. The trick lies in preparing your image originally. Filters do their stuff without regard of the underlying structure. I often find that I have to apply a filter, examine the effect and then either tweak the result, or more commonly, return to the original image and manipulate that to fit the effect. Faces are especially difficult since we gross filters like this one often leave bits of malformed mouth or eyes which are just too distracting. I often completely tone down the elements of a face when using filters like this. The reverse problem also applies, that in the original a line of subtle shade or colour may present the whole flow of a model - in this case the subtlety must be made gross for it to still show through the filtering.
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