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Challenge: Lifestyle Portrait (Standard Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Lens: Helios 40-1 85mm f/1.5
Location: Budapest
Date: Feb 5, 2017
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/80
Galleries: Portraiture, Travel
Date Uploaded: Feb 8, 2017

 A classic tourist snapshot - a classic portrait with a landmark in the background. The overcast sky created the perfect softbox for this shot, working with the fifty-year-old vintage lens to bring out a wonderfully clean flatness of light.

Shot in Budapest with the legendary Helios 85 f/1.5, which, if you've been following my work, you'll be well familiar with by now. Stopped down to approximately f/5.6 (not exactly sure, since it's possible to adjust clicklessly) to get just the right amount background blur while leaving enough definition to identify the famous Gothic building of the Budapest parliament.

Editing: cloning out a distracting cypress tree, curves too complex to explain this time (mostly boosting blues in some parts of shadows and lowering them in various other ranges), dodge and burn to emphasise the eyes, wavelet decompose to suppress the largest detail scale everywhere except the eyes and lips and the edges of the coat, and finally resize and sharpen.

Statistics
Place: 9 out of 40
Avg (all users): 6.0714
Avg (commenters): 7.5000
Avg (participants): 5.6000
Avg (non-participants): 6.3333
Views since voting: 844
Views during voting: 118
Votes: 56
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 02/17/2017 10:55:32 AM
Very nice photo. I gave a 7 on this. I highly respect your photography. Congratulations on the HM.
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 02/17/2017 06:00:24 AM
Hello from the critique club

An interesting image the fulfils the challenge brief

You have an unfair advantage Eugene with the ice queen for your model! Another lovely portrait, nicely positioned with her expression and eyes she pulls you in. As you rightly say this is a lovely lens with sufficient background detail to show that she is in an interesting location without the background becoming too distracting. I think I might have been tempted to tilt the camera down a touch to reduce the sky above her head but its not a big deal.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/16/2017 11:54:57 PM
An honest portrait and I really like the composition.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/16/2017 11:52:58 PM
Lovely portrait, background and ambience. Top 3.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/16/2017 12:17:10 PM
Great broken
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/12/2017 12:07:51 PM
My best in show. Certainly the cutest.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/11/2017 01:31:55 AM
Top 3. Nice image!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/10/2017 09:22:42 AM
Well suited for the challenge.
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