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Challenge: High Contrast (Advanced Editing IV)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: My Room
Date: Aug 30, 2005
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Abstract, Still Life
Date Uploaded: Aug 30, 2005

 Black and white, ain't no more contrast than that. Actually colored the black on the paper with a stinky marker and got a headache lol.

Post Processing:
-Convert from Raw after bumping up shadows a bit
-Levels
-History brush to return the natural color of the hand
-Resize
-Sharpen
-Submit

Statistics
Place: 112 out of 343
Avg (all users): 5.7521
Avg (commenters): 6.9091
Avg (participants): 5.6908
Avg (non-participants): 5.8556
Views since voting: 925
Views during voting: 360
Votes: 242
Comments: 12
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 09/17/2005 09:42:55 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club!

This is an interesting shot, you are right, Black and White, nothing more contrasting than that. :)

I like the idea, the fact that you colored it yourself and stayed inside the lines! I could never do that, LOL :)

The lines work well but the hand at the top is a bit much. You want the marker and the fingers but I used my magic envelope and cropped it just below the white area on the marker and it really brought the attention back to the black and white area. The lighting is a bit flat, maybe a slight adjustment on that to really make it pop?

Hope my comments help!

Deannda
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/11/2005 09:45:02 PM
Fresh Idea that lends to an interesting comp. Very well executed.
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 09/11/2005 08:33:30 AM
Interesting shot. 5.
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 09/10/2005 05:38:34 PM
Very clever idea and well executed.
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 09/10/2005 05:25:20 PM
a little oversharpened
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/09/2005 07:55:00 PM
Cool idea!
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 09/08/2005 04:07:10 PM
:o)
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 09/07/2005 10:15:19 PM
Interesting idea.
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 09/07/2005 08:10:41 PM
Not terribly interesting and the lighting's pretty flat. If you could alter the lighting somewhat an maybe have the camera at a flatter angle I think it would've helped.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/07/2005 10:53:08 AM
Original and sharp. Love the contrast and love this shot. Great Job.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/05/2005 07:50:58 PM
I really like the graphic image you've created. Simple, clean and definitely high contrast. One of my favorites of the challenge. 10!
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 09/05/2005 06:07:46 PM
Definitely high contrast! Well done.
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