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Blue Light Special
Blue Light Special
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Light (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Location: Lake Zurich, IL
Date: Jan 29, 2005
Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/15 sec
Galleries: Family, Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Jan 30, 2005

 Samantha is wearing an LED earring that flashes colors. I tried various attempts at long exposures in a dark room and using my flash handheld as a burst of light in the middle of the exposure, but ended up going with this one which was just a simple side lit setup. Destaurated all the the blue colors, sharpened, and ran though Noiseware to slightly soften the features and cleanup some of the ISO 400 noise.

Statistics
Place: 113 out of 266
Avg (all users): 5.5256
Avg (commenters): 6.5000
Avg (participants): 5.3089
Avg (non-participants): 5.8152
Views since voting: 997
Views during voting: 366
Votes: 215
Comments: 13
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/06/2005 07:00:49 PM
By forcing this to fit the challenge, you made a very good picture look, well, not so good.
 02/06/2005 03:06:19 PM
I think it would be better if her head were turned a little, or a lot. Straight on faces, or the so called mugshot, are not that flattering to the model. You took nice advantage of her lovely eyes.
 02/04/2005 11:16:11 PM
Nice portrait. It stands alone as being good without the blue light.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/04/2005 10:59:22 AM
I would have left this just B&W. The color does not work for me or the light on the side of her face. It seems like a good photo other wise
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/03/2005 02:54:23 PM
I love the b&w with color. What's this about?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/02/2005 06:20:17 AM
A very interesting photo. What is the subject thinking?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/02/2005 06:17:11 AM
The idea is good but unfortunatly IMHO the light looks placed and independant of the photo. It could be that the desat has caused the light and its colour to stand out to much. Good idea though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/01/2005 08:29:55 PM
i actually would like this photo a lot more without the "blue light special". But hey, you had to meet the challenge! Nice photo anyways.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/01/2005 01:39:57 AM
nicely done!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/31/2005 05:04:41 PM
good use of digital technology.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/31/2005 11:28:06 AM
I don't know if I like the positioning of the earing (?). I think the photo is lovely, and would be wonderful as a pure B/W shot, but if you had a similar light source just behind her head to her right (our left) so that it cast a blue halo, I think it could be exquisit - 7
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/31/2005 02:00:30 AM
Wow, what you have is a beautiful black and white portrait and the blue light is distracting me from seeing all the fine detail, her eyes in particular. The lateral lighting is really nice.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/31/2005 12:13:05 AM
beautiful portrait!
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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