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Baby Blue
Baby Blue
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Challenge: Blue II (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
Date: Jan 29, 2006
Aperture: f/16
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/125
Date Uploaded: Jan 30, 2006

 being someone who does a number of eye macro shots, I thought an eye macro shot would be a good addition... I posted on craigslist looking for blue eyes, and one of my responses came from someone with a 6 month old baby with blue eyes, so... thought that might work. Very very hard to get the full macro, what with her squirming and all, but I kinda thought this image worked well, with a bit of double ententre on the title. :-)

cropped, some color/contrast tweaks.

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Place: 360 out of 446
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Avg (commenters): 4.6667
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AuthorThread
 02/08/2006 02:21:32 AM
Originally posted by sumeetpuri:
how can you say its a baby blue??


Well, why should I not? It's a baby's eye (the kid in question is 6 months old), and it's blue.

I tinted the overall image towards blue a tad, too, which may have been a mistake, I don't know... some have commented that they didn't like the skin tones.

*shrug*, live and learn, I guess. :-)

I did have some closer shots of her eye, and that had been the intention originally, but I thought this shot captured a double ententre, as she looks a little "blue" (as in sad) there, to me -- though I don't think she actually was.

Anyway, thanks to those who left feedback. Thanks even more to/if anybody's reading this. ;-)
 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/03/2006 07:08:08 PM
I like the concept, but this photo seems spooky to me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/03/2006 10:39:43 AM
It would be better to show more of the baby's beautiful blue eye, and less skin and background. It's difficult to photograph babies, they never do what you say. But, IMO, lighting could be improved in order to gain better skin tones, and the eye could be even sharper.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/02/2006 08:18:32 AM
Interesting and unusual composition.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/01/2006 11:37:42 PM
The composition is well balanced but I'd like to see more light and focus on the eye.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/01/2006 03:44:53 PM
strange feeling!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/01/2006 09:37:57 AM
how can you say its a baby blue??


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