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Photographer's Comments |
Challenge: Color Portrait (Advanced Editing IV)
Collection: 2005
Camera: Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z3
Location: Virginia
Date: Sep 7, 2005
Aperture: F4.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/80
Galleries: Family, Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Sep 8, 2005
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Post-processing with Paint Shop Pro 9
Sharpness: USM (2,210,4)
Select Horse - layer
- Dig Camera Noise Reduction
Invert selection - layer
- Neat Image
- Clone blemish by nose
- Clone fench reflection bottom of eyes
- Dodge small dirt mark on collar of shirt
- Color Adjust RGB (R 0, G 0, B -3)
Merge All (Flatten)
Fill Flash +15
Brightness & Contrast: HMS(5, 5, 0)
Color Balance: Color Temp 5700
Color Adjust RGB (R -10, G 0, B -2)
Color Adjust Levels
Color Adjust HSL (Y -20, G -30, R -30)
Select white patch horse forehead - Color Adjust HSL (Cyan -40)
Select eyes - Color Adjust HSL (Cyan +50)
Crop
Resize
Save as JPG
Originally I wasn't going to enter this challenge. I didn't want to put somebody in the family thru all the posing and lighting setup, etc...besides, that's not really my strong point. Plus I really don't have any lighting equipment, backdrops, etc...
My wife was giving one of the neighbor kids a riding lesson and my stepdaughter (MK in photo) was there as well. I took along the camera when I went outside with the Perspective 2 challenge in mind. One thing led to another and I couldn't pass up some regular photo op's...caught MK cooing to her horse, she caught me taking pictures, and voila! She is very photogenic and LOVES to have her picture taken. Later as I was going thru the pics I saw this and said "OK, I can enter this". Hope it goes over well. Thinking maybe I can garner a 6 out of this one. One can always hope - yes? ;^) |
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09/23/2005 10:21:09 AM |
Greetings from the Critique Club.
The first thing I noticed in this image was that the horse's face was cut off at the bottom. I know that the subject is the girl and not the horse but that is very disctracting. Perhaps a wider crop would have been better in this situation. Perhaps an even closer crop, just the girl's face would have worked too because this is such a nice expression.
I like the expression on the girl's face. The light is good and she is properly exposed without any blown highlights, specially on the tshirt where it would have been easy to do so, good job. I think the eyes could benefit from a little bit of dodging, just a tiny bit.
If you have any questions or comments about this critique, please feel free to PM me.
June
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09/16/2005 09:41:34 PM |
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09/16/2005 09:07:02 PM |
| it's hard to get a lot of light when your subject is facing away from the sun. but it's better than risking weird shadows from the sun. the way to remedy the lack of light is to use a reflector like a piece of white three-ply board. |
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09/16/2005 03:50:51 PM |
| Needs some light in the foreground. Very nice shot otherwise. |
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09/16/2005 03:27:18 AM |
| Great portrait, just the face is slightly OOF. Also, this may have benefitted from slightly lightening the face int he post processing. |
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09/15/2005 08:24:23 AM |
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09/14/2005 10:25:57 PM |
| On my monitor there seems to be a bit too much of a bluecast overall, especially around the white t-shirt. I do like your composition however. Nice job. |
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09/14/2005 09:43:28 AM |
| It's not a technically perfect photograph (thank goodness), but it is a really good portrait. The viewer can't help but smile at her happiness and her apparent close bond with her horse. 7 |
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09/14/2005 01:17:33 AM |
| Great capture of happiness. |
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09/13/2005 08:49:54 PM |
| Nice image. Great smile. Just a bit underexposed. A bit of blue in the white shirt. |
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09/13/2005 12:40:06 PM |
| nice but i think too dark |
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09/13/2005 09:27:21 AM |
| quite nice. To bad you couldn't get all the horse, but its still nice. |
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09/12/2005 11:23:53 PM |
| i'm a sucker for horses... and blue eyes :o) 8 for you! |
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09/12/2005 09:26:33 PM |
| Nice shot! I like her pony in the picture, too; it adds something indefinable..good expression and lighting on face. |
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09/12/2005 09:00:30 PM |
| Cute shot, just wish you had maybe used a bit of fill flash to make it pop a bit. |
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09/12/2005 02:54:58 PM |
| Cute smile. But her face is in the shadows. Would like to have seen a little more light on her face. Focus is good though. |
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09/12/2005 11:49:48 AM |
| Wow, your model has such smiling eyes. (the girl, not the horse!). Lovely natural photograph. 8 |
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09/12/2005 07:55:25 AM |
| she is adorable - the overal picture; moving. :) |
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