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Laugh Lines
Laugh Lines
sbeaumont


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Challenge: Lines (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Nikon D70
Location: Kohler, WI
Date: Mar 13, 2005
Aperture: F/11
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/30
Galleries: Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Mar 13, 2005

 A self portrait taken with Nikkor 50mm 1.8. Natural light from a window, a white reflector and off camera flash fired remotely at 1/32 power to provide shadow fill and catchlights in the eyes. Smoothed skin except for the laugh lines using gaussian blur layer and history brush. Sharpened eyes. Whitened eyes and teeth a little. Reduced color saturation somewhat, a little dodge and burn. Flip vertical, resize, light sharpen, save for web.

My recent entries have been rushed affairs because my wife has been hospitalised and I have had such little time. Despite my best intentions I should not have enetered them and so the scores have been very low. I am hoping that I may get a respectable score with this (5.5 or higher) as I feel it a) meets the challenge and b) is a technically competent shot even if it is not oozing originality. I really want to stop the downhill trend!!

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Place: 250 out of 338
Avg (all users): 4.8874
Avg (commenters): 5.1000
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Avg (non-participants): 5.3699
Views since voting: 602
Votes: 222
Comments: 10
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/20/2005 09:30:42 PM
Laughs lines are very much needed in all faces. Bumping up.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/18/2005 04:05:14 AM
Great portrait... the color seems slightly washed out.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/16/2005 02:02:32 PM
Skin tones seem a little too pale. 7
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/15/2005 11:27:56 PM
There the best lines aren't they! Skin tone seems a bit blue to me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/15/2005 10:08:42 PM
The shot seems too bright and is cropped a little too tight for my taste, you have met the challenge well and this has a good title. Your model has a natural smle and his eyes are crisp, good luck in the challenge.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/15/2005 09:02:00 AM
Nice lighting
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 03/14/2005 04:56:33 PM
The color appears to be a bit to undersaturated for my tastes. I think the lighting is more of a problem. Almost the only parts of the skin that are not flatly lit are the wrinkles ahem lines.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/14/2005 03:28:36 PM
great idea, but i would have got in closer to the eye and avoided the extra stuff. you want to bring our attention to the eye, so crop to there and the eye or zoom in closer. i think it could have done very well if that was the case.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/14/2005 12:47:37 PM
I like it :) Good luck.
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 03/14/2005 07:04:40 AM
Average picture - lots used skin lines - no unique aspects
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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