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Yellow Umbrella
Yellow Umbrella
Breeee123


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Pastels (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon PowerShot S2 IS
Location: San Pedro, CA
Date: Sep 1, 2006
Aperture: 3.2
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Portraiture, Studio
Date Uploaded: Sep 2, 2006

 My friend Neira agreed to model for this shot... lighting was 4 or 5 lamps behind the umbrella and a lamp in front of her on the floor.

I bought this umbrella with the intention of using it in a photo shoot, and this challenge seemed to present a good opportunity.

Post processing: Neat image, levels, selective color, added the yellow to white gradation in the umbrella, cloned out some minor distracting elements and rendered a flare on top of the earring for extra sparkle.

Statistics
Place: 111 out of 203
Avg (all users): 5.4947
Avg (commenters): 6.7143
Avg (participants): 5.3289
Avg (non-participants): 5.6053
Views since voting: 1160
Views during voting: 378
Votes: 190
Comments: 9
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 09/15/2006 06:16:18 PM
Hello from the Critique club, my name is Jon Rowe, and i will be looking at your image this evening :)

your model, and the pose, is absolutely breathtaking. such beauty. the only nitpic is it's overexposed. maybe if you could have defused the lights a little more, the backlighting wouldn't have taken over so much. i really think that possibly a faster shutter speed than 1/60th would have been better, maybe around 1/120 or so. this would have given a lot more crisp focus on her hair, and on her face as well, and toned down the lighting coming through the umbrella.

nonetheless, this is an absolutely gorgeous photo, and you did very well on it :) great score too :)

Keep on shootin!

Good luck on your future challenges:)

-Jon Ed Rowe
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 09/11/2006 10:05:08 AM
nice sunny glowing effect. she looks as pretty as the print on her umbrella. I gave this an 8
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/10/2006 10:52:27 AM
Very pretty.
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 09/06/2006 07:10:45 PM
Beautifully done. perhaps a bit more softness on the model but not a big thing... :) 7
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 09/04/2006 09:49:00 PM
Nice comp but the photo seems overexposed and not quite in focus.
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 09/04/2006 10:19:27 AM
subtle, great lighting
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 09/04/2006 04:24:46 AM
nice image
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 09/04/2006 02:28:11 AM
Love this
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 09/04/2006 02:22:01 AM
stunning beauty and light in this shot...good luck
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