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The Overcoat.
The Overcoat.
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Challenge: Free Study 2009-11 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D300
Lens: Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D
Location: Cardiff
Date: Nov 10, 2009
Aperture: f2.8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/30
Galleries: Black and White, Street
Date Uploaded: Nov 29, 2009

 The title refers to Gogols' wonderful short story.

Import Raw to Lightroom.
Crop
Black and White conversion
Curves
Greyscale colour mix
Export to Photoshop
Added a new layer
Gaussian Blur on selected areas of Layer
Dodge and burn
Add border
Back to Lightroom and some final curves
Export JPEG


Statistics
Place: 80 out of 366
Avg (all users): 6.1118
Avg (commenters): 7.9091
Avg (participants): 6.2110
Avg (non-participants): 5.8605
Views since voting: 955
Views during voting: 123
Votes: 152
Comments: 21
Favorites: 5 (view)

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AuthorThread
 03/24/2010 12:24:22 AM
It is. The Overcoat. The story.
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 01/08/2010 03:43:32 PM
This is SO wonderful.

I just love what you do. Time capture and treatment is timeless.
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 01/02/2010 10:47:39 PM
Beautiful tones Clive, I like the pov being from behind the man's back, it keeps more interest and mistery in the scene.
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 12/16/2009 12:21:49 AM
Love it!
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 12/09/2009 05:19:15 PM
have you heard about Nikolai Gogol's famous story "Overcoat"? [Dostoevsky, another great Russian writer, once remarked that "we all came from Gogol's Overcoat"]. This is just an image to go with that story.
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 12/09/2009 05:05:37 PM
Originally posted by paulbtlw:

Overall: Quite fabulous; this says LevT to me - apologies if I have this wrong.

thanks for the compliment Paul.. :) I wish it was mine, I do like this a lot - the photo, and the processing. Great job Clive! (did not vote, just came across it)
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 12/08/2009 09:08:05 AM
excellent, i love it
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 12/08/2009 07:09:41 AM
I thought this might have been Zigomar's but not quite - I suspect my next guess might have been you had I pondered a bit longer. You have a lovely touch with processing. You use it to your advantage to bring your story to light in just the way you wish to tell it. Congrats on the new personal best, and in a FS no less!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/07/2009 10:56:36 PM
This tells such a story but I don't know what it is. Your photo makes me want to know. Well done. My favorite of the challenge.
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 12/07/2009 09:09:33 PM
Nice tones and overall feeling. I wish he were facing the camera.
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 12/07/2009 03:35:01 PM
Very good vintage kind of processing. Good use of DOF, is it PP or real DOF?
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 12/06/2009 01:00:55 AM
Love the urban look to this, reminds me of some of the old b/w city stuff.
good job.
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 12/05/2009 10:03:35 AM
I like this, it makes me think of the penguin from batman.
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 12/04/2009 10:14:54 PM
What a great photo. Feels like something I'd see on the walls of Starbucks. An intimate moment well imagined, captured and presented.
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 12/04/2009 07:20:32 PM
Love the tones!
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 12/04/2009 05:38:52 PM
Excellent shot and excellent job on the processing.
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 12/03/2009 01:28:36 PM
for me this has a very interesting feel to it...I really like the processing and the border on this
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/02/2009 08:51:49 PM
This photo is brilliant... I really like the moody processing in this shot.
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 12/02/2009 03:42:09 AM
Mysterious... looks like he's almost at the rendezvous point for the briefcase exchange : )
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 12/01/2009 05:25:35 PM
OK, I'm going through the Free Study submissions, purposefully finding those images I think are shot with a less conventional eye - this is one of those images! Thanks for offering something that isn't just DPC friendly eye-candy (though of course there's nothing wrong with eye-candy). I'll be picking one of these images for the Mu (most underrated) award:

Positives: Oh wow! Instant favourite! This is just such a holistic image - every element is mutually supportive of each other element. The tones, the focus / blur, the vignette, the composition, the subject.... All brilliant.

Critical stuff: Nothing.

Overall: Quite fabulous; this says LevT to me - apologies if I have this wrong.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/01/2009 09:21:37 AM
Great hues, composition and focus texture.
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