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Ms. Perfect Smile
Ms. Perfect Smile
thegrandwazoo


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Challenge: Color Studio Portrait II (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Nikon D70s
Lens: Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 80-200mm f/2.8D ED
Location: Shot in my office in Scottsdale
Date: Apr 14, 2006
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Portraiture, Studio
Date Uploaded: Apr 14, 2006

 This is Shannon she is the daughter of a friend of mine. She is 6'1" and very funny. Thanks Shannon!

Post: Imported Raw, Levels,Curves,clone to smooth some highlights & eyes,neat image,desat reds,crop,resize,usm and save for web.

Shot in my office in Scottsdale

Statistics
Place: 186 out of 199
Avg (all users): 4.6015
Avg (commenters): 4.5143
Avg (participants): 4.4273
Avg (non-participants): 4.7244
Views since voting: 3205
Views during voting: 588
Votes: 266
Comments: 46
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 06/04/2007 10:02:39 PM
Look It's Petroleum-Based Girl!
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 04/10/2007 09:25:52 PM
LOL I'm feeling so much better about my own "shame" now. Thanks for posting!
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 07/22/2006 05:05:12 PM
I'm still convinced this is really just your very life-like love doll :-P
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 04/24/2006 08:26:57 PM
Hang in there. The comments pretty much spell out your lessons: You have a good eye for image and composition and all you need do is back off on the processing. Use these tools ever so lightly and you will be fine. Pretty girl.
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 04/24/2006 12:20:34 AM
Dude! At least you didn't get brown on this one ;) Great effort though and I hope you learned lessons I learned the hard way too ;)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/23/2006 10:58:42 PM
Either a victim of makeup or NeatImage, either way there's something strange going on with her skin texture (way too much contrast around the eyes but no contrast elsewhere)
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 04/23/2006 10:15:41 PM
way to over prossesed, to smooth almost to the point of being out of focus
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 04/23/2006 07:19:52 PM
Nice smile, but appears over-processed
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 04/23/2006 06:50:26 PM
I think the lighting is way too harsh for her face, the reflections off her eyes, lips and teeth are really distracting. She looks like a pretty girl, the makeup is overdone and there appears to be too much neat image on her nose and cheeks. Sometimes natural is better.
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 04/23/2006 04:07:22 PM
It's a nice portrait, although it would have been a better portrait to me if you didn't use that much NI and oversharpened the eyes. I've the feeling this one would look better without it.
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 04/23/2006 12:46:38 PM
I don't mean to sound harsh, but she looks like she is made of wax. The lighting isn't the best either; a bit too dark with harsh shadows.
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 04/23/2006 09:58:17 AM
hm, the smile looks a little fake in my opinion and the editing makes her look a little plastic. the eyes and teeth seem over "suped" up.
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 04/23/2006 09:34:37 AM
Very Britney Spears looking...but the PP has made her look very plastic unfortunately!
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 04/21/2006 07:11:33 PM
Yep, those are some perfect teeth! The eyes look a little funny to me though. I'm not sure if they are just too sharp from post-process or an illusion do to the shine off of the make-up. Nice composition!
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 04/21/2006 07:02:44 PM
Pretty lady, nice smile. Good crop and composition but too much noise reduction or smoothing applied to the skin for my taste.
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 04/21/2006 06:44:27 PM
Way too much smoothing going here.
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 04/19/2006 04:45:24 PM
smoothed to excess in my opinion - too much detail is lost
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 04/19/2006 03:24:19 PM
She looks uncomfortable, like the smile is forced. I like how well the face is in focus. 6
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 04/19/2006 02:39:16 PM
The PP on this looks rather plasticky to me.
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 04/19/2006 01:37:29 PM
This seems quite underexposed. I like the way her hair frames her face. I think you could have cropped more off the top, down to the top of her hairline.
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 04/19/2006 08:38:56 AM
Too...well too much of everything for my taste.
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 04/19/2006 05:25:52 AM
is this me or you went crazy with neat image ? the skin and eye brows seem completely unnatural.
pretty girl though :)
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 04/19/2006 02:39:58 AM
Lots of Neat Image (or similar) here but beautiful model and a great smile - 8 from me!
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 04/18/2006 04:18:11 PM
Ms. Over Processed.
Lighting is not bad. Perhaps a little harsh, needs to be softened to get rid of the harsh shadows.
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 04/18/2006 03:01:04 PM
Beautiful smile and nice composition, but the excessive surface blur ruined it in my opinion
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 04/18/2006 02:48:22 PM
very dark perhaps illuminate the face and hair a bit more to create more life ; very tight crop. and finally i think the make up is too strong but thats my taste.
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 04/18/2006 01:07:23 AM
Her skin looks too plasticky, probably from too much smoothing in post-prod? Seriously, I had to study the photo for a second to determine whether or not she was a mannequin.
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 04/17/2006 10:58:34 PM
The overprocessing has made her skin and eyes look really weird. The lighting is harsh.
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 04/17/2006 10:35:28 PM
the entire image looks fake. seems as though you have overprocessed it making it gallons worse than what it could have been.
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 04/17/2006 09:58:41 PM
Seems a bit heavy on the softening and over sharpened eyes. Beautiful smile!
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 04/17/2006 09:08:33 PM
Is she real? Gorgeous. 10
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 04/17/2006 02:47:33 PM
I don't know if it was post processing or the natural appearance of your model. But the teeth and the eyes are unnaturally bright and detract from an otherwise worthy photo. Crop might be a little tight.
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 04/17/2006 02:14:40 PM
I think the composition is good.

The use of a NI-like technique does, unfortunately ruin this shot for me. It is over processed including the whitening of the eyes.
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 04/17/2006 02:10:49 PM
Is this a real person? If it is it looks fake and very plastic like. The eyelashes looks like spikes and the mouth and eyes look glossy and sort of slimy. If it is a real model she looks like if she relaxed and posed in a more comfortable way and you did less post processing you could make a nice portrait.
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 04/17/2006 11:49:37 AM
a little too much editing for me..
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 04/17/2006 10:06:49 AM
looks artificial and forced...
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 04/17/2006 09:57:28 AM
have to be honest , her smile seems quite fake? also I think she should lay off the sunbed for a while. Looking orange.
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 04/17/2006 08:24:30 AM
Over processed... espeically around the eyes and eye lashes.
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 04/17/2006 07:50:55 AM
Looks a little fake, the smile I mean.
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 04/17/2006 07:14:56 AM
Yes that is a perfect smile...now about the photo...is that Neat Image that has made her skin look like Barbie's? I love the shot though, so let's move on and be friends....
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 04/17/2006 06:18:59 AM
More of a grimace than a smile :)
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 04/17/2006 06:01:29 AM
An ad for Colgate ? :)
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 04/17/2006 02:32:07 AM
Too much PP spoils this one for me
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 04/17/2006 02:04:13 AM
First of all, let me say you have a very cute model. That said, this shot could use a bit of work. You have too many reflections that are detrimental to this shot and are distracting. Mainly in her lips, teeth and the shiny eye liner. Part of this is the lighting and P/P and some of this is the models makeup. Otherwise a nice shot...
TC
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 04/17/2006 01:19:35 AM
This makeup sooo reminds me of the late 60s - early 70s.
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 04/17/2006 01:17:41 AM
Too much neat image? Where's the texture in her face? And why her the whites of her eyes bluish and too bright? On a positive note, her teeth look great...
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