I didn't click on this for the photoshop stuff, and it became the best photoshop tutorial i've ever seen. Barbara MacFerrin has just gained a new fan!

Absolutely stunning work from Barbara Macferrin! Thanks to BH for exposing her art. I'm floored. I love how she is driven by the idea of not just copying other artists but indeed develop her own style that is so distinctly unique.

Thank you B&H for bringing this artist's work to light!

Inspired by the old masters, but Ms MacFerrin has her own unique style. Excellent work.

I have 45 years of photography behind and I learned a couple of things here. Thank you.

Very interesting techniques and all the best on all of your success. Great video and some of those techniques we used before, but some we will be trying for sure.

First of all I want to congratulate you on your excellent work, I am very grateful for your sharing and availability. Hugs from 🇵🇹

Your work is stunning. Thanks so much for sharing your ideas with us.

Thank you so much! You have given me the inspiration that I have been looking for. You have shown what has just been a general idea for me.

Was first introduced to this wonderful old masters technique when I saw magazines with the Australian Bill Gekas who had his young daughter dressed in Dutch Vermeer/Rembrandt period clothing, in studio as well at outdoor beach scenes.

Wow she is so so good, love the look.

This a great tutorial, well explained with amazing images. Thank you for sharing

Excellent tutorial! I was interested in trying this type of photography and editing..now I know we’re to start. Thank you for sharing…beautiful work

Excellent work and beautiful pictures! Thanks for posting!

This is excellent and even free!! Thank you so much!

Wow Excellent , your are very inspiring, your work are so beautiful, really like a master’s paintings !

Amazing artist Barbara!

Amazing work, much love in that.

I agree with the other commenters, great work, very inspiring.

So magnificent. Thanks for the education.

Watched you twice now, a great help to my similar processing, ive been doing my overlays the hard way ha Thankyou for showing your skills to us, especially me being an old git with not a lot of time to learn all XX

Phantastic explanation and wonderful techniques!

Magnifiques... avant la retouche de mon point de vue.

incredible work

Amazing fine art work.Congrats.

super informative enjoyed watching and def will use this for reference, thank you guys!

Thank you, awesome tutorial!

Interesting point about the light from the left. We read from left to right, I wonder if it is the same in other cultures that might read from right to left.

Amazing! Thank u for sharing

Great work. Very inspirational.

This is an interesting approach to portraiture and good to see some different thinking. I also enjoyed work by Julia Durova on Flickr, and others might too.

Thank you for sharing,great video

I absolute love these. But only because I am self-training to become a traditional classical painter.

Amazing!

Graciassss, Thks

Thank you!

Funny. I also do Painterly Photography and arrived at the same slight underexposition trick. ;o)

Hello i have a d5 frame and a d2 head got it off creigslist was fine win picked up took it a part to clean it did the exact same thing as yours had to put weight back on it force it down mine is workong fine now except for a couple little leaks put the bar back in down be afraid to force it down

For study! thx

Very Cool Thank you

Please tell me how you get the texture behind the model in the snap of a finger in the blink-of-an-eye instead of erasing the model from the texture which is what I'm sure I would have to do

Do you retouch in 16 bit mode? Your files look open in PS in 8 bit.

BH20 code no longer available on her site? Thought it expired on the 26th

These methods dont seem to work with 16 bit files :(

i have used textures for a while and enjoy the dutch masters too. My question is my biggest issue is I could never get into any art competitions... the photographer side says you are not photography becausue the image is to much editing....and the fine art side says you start with a photograph not a canvas or paper... so you can't really be painting. ( the artist hand is the artist hand no matter what tools you use is what i believe but.....what do you do when faced with this non logic?

Where do you get these backgrounds?

May i ask what in Photography IS NOT "Fine Art". I don't mean "Art" by that question, I mean "Fine Art". Many thanks

As soon as you addedthe clouds, it seemed the clouds were suddenly behind the model miraculously without you doing anything to get them there. I'm mystified

Well if you want it all the same don't purchase a hand made Morgan car, I believe that the gap in the wheel arches are made by different craftsmen and are slightly different in measurement.

Why am I not getting any video ? like a pod cast ! how can you learn anything from someone talking and no video ?

Too much photoshop kills photoshop, and photoshop kills what's photography is.

She went from sys admin that pays $100+k to photography.

Really annoying sound interference.

The more the end result looks like a corpse the more "fine art" it's called...

They alMoST look fake

BORING.Period.

Your tongue clicking is so annoying!! Can't watch this!

This photoshop looks disgusting. All these photos are screaming from overphotoshop. If you want to get an old look photo, just take a large format camera with a soft focus lens. If you take photos with a modern digital camera, just make modern digital photography.

Thank you so much! You have given me the inspiration that I have been looking for. You have shown what has just been a general idea for me.