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Challenge: Portrait in Landscape Orientation (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II
Location: Home
Date: Oct 28, 2006
Aperture: 4.97
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Portraiture, Children
Date Uploaded: Oct 28, 2006

New Camera, will it help any?

Not much post processing, layered, blurred background and light blur to soften skin/hair. Desat of most colors, Resized and saved as jpg for submission.

Model is my daughter :)

Statistics
Place: 255 out of 271
Avg (all users): 4.0161
Avg (commenters): 3.9000
Avg (participants): 3.7738
Avg (non-participants): 4.1402
Views since voting: 957
Views during voting: 333
Votes: 248
Comments: 11
Favorites: 0


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11/08/2006 05:48:43 AM
Well at least it wasn't the worst. I understand why some saw blue in the whites of the eyes, though printed they come out white. I've redone this picture a number of times in my portfolio, I think the last one is probably the best, though I believe it would have been against the rules.

The one thing I do not understand is how I can get comments of nice focus on eyes, and you didn't focus on the eyes.

I would appreciate comments on this as well as the other renditions of it.

 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/07/2006 11:54:39 AM
You should have kept the blue out of the cornea, looks unnatural.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
11/04/2006 08:50:15 AM
Focus needs to be on the eyes. Really.
11/03/2006 08:53:46 PM
That's gotta be a heck of an edit! Nice capture.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
11/03/2006 09:47:12 AM
nothing in focus, color processing makes it even worse (blue eyeballs?)
11/03/2006 03:22:10 AM
I think much editing added some artifacts on the background...
I think I would have rated unedited 7-8. 6.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
11/03/2006 12:23:13 AM
poor contrast. thought you left her eye colored intentionally - to emphasize it...you can emphasize that with better contrast.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
11/02/2006 01:17:43 PM
Back to comment: You did a nice job of getting a sharp focus on the girl's eyes but the colors in this image look weird. I'm not sure if you tried selective desaturation or had to crop this image a lot but the background has a weird cast and the girl's face (except for the eyes) look washed out. Part of this may be related to your file size being only 100 kb. The challenge rules allow for images up to 150 kb. The extra 50 kb might have helped the background in this image. I also betting that a little work in post processing with levels or curves could have brought about a bit more life in the face.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
11/01/2006 05:48:51 AM
hehehe
terrible picture!
I love it
6
  Photographer found comment helpful.
11/01/2006 04:39:22 AM
creepy eyes!
11/01/2006 03:46:41 AM
Looks out of focus & also needs more contrast


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