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"No Doubt About It, I Gotta Get Another Hat"
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Challenge: Magic & Mystery II (Expert Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Feb 2, 2012
Aperture: 3.19
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/4 second
Date Uploaded: Feb 2, 2012

Quote from Bullwinkle Moose, possibly the world's most unsuccessful magician.

-Tripod, timer, manual mode
-Blur background
-Channel Mixer > Monochrome
-RGB Curve
-Some minor dodge. burn, blurring, and cloning to neaten BG and edges
-Crop
-Resize
-Yellow Curve to banana
-Sharpen foreground
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 209KB

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02/09/2012 03:50:52 PM
Voted earlier, coming back to leave comments.

'Hats' off you to for the humor (pun intended):-) I am not convinced that the desaturation of all elements except the banana really work. The image has potential but needs some work. First off I think it would have been better to have a black background for the white of the 'gloves' and the magician's sleeves to pop off the backdrop. The challenge would be to light the black hat so it does not blend into the backdrop. Easy enough with some small lights (flashlights or small desk spotlight) that can be hidden behind the hat. It's best to make sure that you have some distance between wall and hat (say 3 feet) and hat and light (7 to 14 inches). This will help illuminate the hat by 'outlining' the edges; separating it from the black backdrop. You will also have to have a light on the front of the hat and magician to keep lighting balanced. There is a lot of 'noise' or grain in the shot. Shooting with a faster ISO introduces that noise. The options are to shoot with a lower ISO 200 or less OR run the image through a Denoise program such as Topaz Denoise or Noise Ninja. Lastly, when composing your image make sure that you have all the necessary elements to complete the 'illusion'. The rubber gloves just don't speak of a magician. It ruins the imagery of a young, inexperienced magician being frustrated at not mastering the magic of the hat.
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