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Serenity at Sunset
Serenity at Sunset
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Challenge: Silhouettes II (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Sigma 17-35mm f/2.8-4.0 EX DG Aspherical HSM for Canon
Location: The Park
Date: May 13, 2005
Aperture: f:4
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/25
Galleries: Sky, Portraiture
Date Uploaded: May 14, 2005

 We shot this photo late in the park. I was trying to get a mysterious view of my beautiful model's profile. This was handheld in very low light, as she was posing on the playground slide. The grain was intentional, and I wanted to show just enough of her features and detail to keep the viewer interested. Converted RAW file with minor adjustments to sharpness and white balance. When as JPEG I adjusted levels, boosted the contrast, increased saturation a bit, applied USM, and cloned out some of her right cheek that was showing just below her nose, cropped to remove some hot sun in the lower left corner. We'll see if it worked.

Statistics
Place: 156 out of 248
Avg (all users): 5.0290
Avg (commenters): 5.5714
Avg (participants): 4.8235
Avg (non-participants): 5.2295
Views since voting: 1032
Views during voting: 320
Votes: 241
Comments: 8
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/19/2005 03:28:19 PM
I really like the pose and outline of the subjects face. I wish you didn't have such a tight crop and included more of the OOF sky and sunset behind your subject (i.e. zoom out and convert to landscape). Good Luck.
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 05/18/2005 10:07:17 PM
Dark, but too much detail to count as silhouette. Your model is lovely and the composition is nice, too.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/17/2005 06:00:35 PM
This is so beautiful! One of my favorites of the challenge! I love how distinctly you can see her eyelashes. Such sharpness! I love the colors in the sky too! 10
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 05/17/2005 08:45:25 AM
There's still too much detail in the face for a true silhouette. This, for me, is a touch frustrating as I can see a much better and much more appealing photo here if you lighten the face a lot. I suspect that you tried to force the challenge theme here. A potentially very, very nice photo for a different time. 4
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/17/2005 12:42:29 AM
Very nice shot. There's a little too much visible detail for me to truly be able to call this a silhouette. Great composition and nice colors in the sunset.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/16/2005 03:38:54 PM
Good silhouette. Nice and dark subject with a good crisp edge. I feel that two thinks are a little off on this one. First the silhouette takes up too much of the image I would like to have seen more of the background. Secon the angle of the model just dosn't seem quite right. Over all not a bad shot that is still better than the average. Nice job!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/16/2005 10:33:52 AM
pretty girl
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 05/16/2005 04:42:34 AM
such a sweet face
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