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Beauty queen
Beauty queen
LalliSig


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Beauty (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
Location: Hotel Island, Reykajvik
Date: May 26, 2005
Aperture: 8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Portraiture, Studio
Date Uploaded: May 29, 2005

This actually is miss Iceland 2005, she won the title about 1 week ago or the 20th of may and her name is Unnur Birna and she is 21 years old. I have been taking a couple of shots for the people that produce the miss Iceland pageant and this among other shots were taken as promotion material to put on their webpage amongst other things. One of the few times I take a shot and make it fit the challenge, I am curious to see how it goes but both me and her like this shot so I hope you will too.

This is only lit with a single 580ex and an umbrella from the right side and triggered with a transmitter. The backround was lit by ambient lights so I burned them out. Used healing brush, curves and unsharp mask and cropped slightly off the image.

Statistics
Place: 67 out of 255
Avg (all users): 5.8333
Avg (commenters): 6.2143
Avg (participants): 5.6786
Avg (non-participants): 6.0081
Views since voting: 4507
Views during voting: 674
Votes: 264
Comments: 17
Favorites: 3 (view)


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09/01/2005 04:49:53 AM
beautiful job, but i think the pic would be much better without the queen stick next to her face.

anyway, it's an awesome shot.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/05/2005 07:10:59 PM
There's a strange sense of the unnatural to this shot - in her expression: like she might just, perhaps, behind the make-up, be tired of smiling. I think it's the absolutel lack of any lines of expression around the eyes, the slight sininess of the make-up there. I quite like this idea of the character showing from behind the mask, but it's too subtle to make me belive it's genuinely deliberate.
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06/05/2005 05:13:09 PM
The classic beauty! great job!....Good Luck!
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06/05/2005 10:02:35 AM
Nice photo. The only thing I would point is that her skin seems to be over-sharpened.. specially around the eyes (looks grainy ). there was some tutorial by jonpink about portraits and retouching face, you may like to see that...
Very good work
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06/05/2005 09:21:06 AM
Model is pretty, composition a little strange to me ... she is a little too "lefty" I think.
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06/05/2005 02:40:40 AM
Beautiful girl. I would suggest a little less straight on approach to add interest and reduce the shadows. and maybe a light behind her to highlight her hair and keep it from falling into the background. Nice skin tones.
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06/04/2005 12:10:39 PM
Very beautiful model and excellent lighting but I would really like this a bit softer. You can see the pores in her skin.
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06/03/2005 02:07:54 PM
I would have softened the skin more, forehead. Nice and sharp, bumping up
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06/02/2005 05:10:44 PM
the lighting seems a bit off here, especially on the right side of her face; it seems too dark in comparison to the lighting on the left side of her face.
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06/01/2005 10:19:49 PM
Lovely eyes. I just felt that might be a tad too sharp I can see pored in her skin on the forehead. Overall nicely shot. 8
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06/01/2005 03:08:04 PM
The septer is a nice touch - makes this photo stand out from other portraits. Wish we could see either more or less of her dress, the bit peeking into the frame draws your eyes away from her face.
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05/31/2005 09:51:40 PM
beautifully captured
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05/31/2005 06:33:03 AM
Not fair! :)
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05/30/2005 07:23:23 PM
Skin tones are smoothly lit. Very nice quality. Sharp! Bumping.
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05/30/2005 01:39:19 PM
Beautiful subject. A beaurty queen she is.
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05/30/2005 06:07:03 AM
nice shot, shame that shadow is cast slightly on the left side 7
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05/30/2005 12:48:32 AM
Perhaps a little less sharpening. The wand/baton/prize needs some type of context to help identify it.
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