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Salvadoreña
Salvadoreña
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Challenge: Color Portrait (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Nikon D70
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
Location: Canyon Country, California, USA
Date: Sep 5, 2005
Aperture: F7.1
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Fashion, Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Sep 7, 2005

 A friend of mine from El Salvador, convenient model in all my photographs with people. Shot at my old high school. At 4:15pm the sun was shining from slightly behind the wall leaving a shadow extending about five feet from the wall, which she was standing in. Nice ambient lighting from the wide area of concrete in front of her. I came up with a number of nice shots but I think people might find some of the lines distracting so I'm entering this cropped version. You can see the original photo here.

After receiving comments I realized that for a portrait this should have been cropped much tighter. I personally like the negative space and that is what I really liked about the original. Unfortunately, the original looks awful at a width of 640 pixels and it contains some lines I didn't think would score well.

See the outtakes here.

Photoshop: cropped, tons of cloning in the face for blemishes (she's only human) and in the stucco where bicycle tire marks were, warming (81) photo filter layer, saturation layer at +15. Save for Web, NeatImage.

Statistics
Place: 129 out of 284
Avg (all users): 5.4358
Avg (commenters): 5.6190
Avg (participants): 5.1888
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Views since voting: 3794
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Votes: 296
Comments: 22
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/18/2005 11:01:35 PM
Lovely subject and wonderful body pose. 7
 09/18/2005 04:53:39 PM
Nice pose.. Appears a bit too centred.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/18/2005 10:52:13 AM
que senorita mas bella.. como que tiene un parecido a Selena, no? siento que la foto esta un poco fuera de foco y que el fondo necesita mas detalle..su pose tambien parece medio incomoda para ella.. espero ver mas de tus fotos de moda y estilo!

translation- what a pretty girl. she kindda looks like Selena. it seems the picture is a bit oof and that there should be something more interesting in the background her pose also looks somewhat uncomfortable for her. id like to see more of your fashion pictures.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/17/2005 12:58:39 AM
I like the pose and the outfit, I don't really like the crop
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/17/2005 12:32:56 AM
Que Linda! Muy bien trabajo!
 09/15/2005 07:56:51 AM
need to crop closer, more light on subject.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/14/2005 10:21:37 PM
Cool shot, I like the simplistic black with cream background.
 09/14/2005 03:25:48 AM
I don't like the color of the background. Overall the scene seems slightly underexposed. Beautiful girl and the pose is excellent.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/13/2005 08:51:45 PM
Sexy, appealing, nice pose, but not an overwhelming amount of color. Although a very fine image, and one to be very proud of, I'm not sure it will stack up against some of the very fine work done in this challenge. However, I wish you the very best of luck. I hope it does well. I like it a lot. <7>
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/13/2005 11:23:05 AM
The bit that mainly portrays the character and personality (the face and specially the eyes) uses a minute portion of the frame. The background, however, which tells me nothing about the subject uses approx 70% of the frame. Technically very good though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/13/2005 09:07:27 AM
Pretty pose, would like to have seen her upper body a little closer though. Very nice background colors, compliments the dress and her skin tones.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/12/2005 07:55:12 PM
For me, there is too much empty background, but I like the model's pose.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/12/2005 07:34:38 PM
Nice smile, but should work to dramatazize your subject.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/12/2005 04:36:51 PM
nice
 09/12/2005 02:38:26 PM
She is beautiful and such a natural in front of the camera. I really love this photo. I'm thinking it might even be stronger if she wasn't right in the middle of the photo but maybe cropped closer to the left. I love it anyway tho.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/12/2005 01:58:56 PM
The background color isn't my favorite but, man, this is a good one! Very nice! You'll score very well!
 09/12/2005 10:47:20 AM
A lovely model and I like her pose and expression. One thing that I think might help this shot is to change up the composition a bit. I would either crop it to potrait orientation and have it be more about her and less about the wall, or I would put her off center to give it a little more interest. Having her dead center seems to take away from the photo a bit. It really should be all about her. :-)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/12/2005 09:23:21 AM
Nicely done but to be honest I'm not sure if I'm loving the crop of this shot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/12/2005 09:18:19 AM
I think I would have liked to have seen this cropped a little tighter but I love the expression on your models face and the body language! woah! 8
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/12/2005 08:33:26 AM
I sense no reason for this image to be cropped to a square. Especially after centering the composition. Too much negative space on the sides.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/12/2005 08:07:56 AM
Nice image but needs better focus and sharpening.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/12/2005 04:39:40 AM
Good shot, this may have more impact if the crop was from the waist up.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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