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Homesteader in Pietown New Mexico - 1940 - Russell Lee
Homesteader in Pietown New Mexico - 1940 - Russell Lee
Cory


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Retro (Advanced Editing VII*)
Collection: Challenge Images
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM
Date: Jul 20, 2013
Aperture: 7.1
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/160
Date Uploaded: Jul 21, 2013
Originally posted by posthumous:
dang, is this Cory? I'm giving you a 7 because up until just now you were a homesteader.


hehe...

Even my dad missed the fact that it was me at first.

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Place: 13 out of 64
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Views during voting: 180
Votes: 83
Comments: 6
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 08/22/2013 02:12:32 AM
I gave it a 9, then. Now I favorite it! Fabulous self portrait.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/28/2013 11:58:27 PM
Thanks to this beautifully wrought image - and the title (and facilitated by Google) I have just spent an interesting while looking at Pie Town photos and reading a little about them. Thank you, for a most enjoyable bit of nostalgia. This is surely the epitome of the retro theme.
Top 2, 10.
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 07/28/2013 11:54:36 PM
dang, is this Cory? I'm giving you a 7 because up until just now you were a homesteader.
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 07/28/2013 08:34:58 PM
Voted earlier coming back to comment.

Very good lighting and pose that is a nice homage to Russell Lee's work (you made me curious so I googled and enjoyed spending some time looking at his work). I think I see the texture overlay but it is very subtle on the homesteader and the wood post (I think it is adding some color toning). Where I see it most is in the sky (it looks to be a concrete wall or wall with two shades to it). The only suggestion I would have to improve the shot and conjure up a stronger impression that the gent is a homesteader is to mayhap used a different overlay texture which would have given the skintones a look that he indeed works out in the sun (I'm basing this on the photo of Lee's Homesteader in the cornfield where he clearly has the skin tones of a man who works out in the sun and bears the marks on his face) Still a great photo but wonder if the overlay might be too subtle for some of the DPC crowd.
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 07/23/2013 09:22:52 PM
Well done!
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 07/22/2013 12:19:42 PM
booger alert
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