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Beauty Captured!
Beauty Captured!
RonRobertson


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Challenge: Free Study 2007-02 (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
Location: Dominique's home studio
Date: Feb 22, 2007
Aperture: 4.5
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Portraiture, Studio
Date Uploaded: Feb 26, 2007

 I must thank my wonderful friend Dominique for setting up my first studio portrait shoot with her absolutely beautiful daughter Claire who is such a natural in front of a camera. I kept her busy for 2 hours and shot non-stop. She is a wonderful model and a pleasure to work with.

IMG_0127 I used Photoshop to edit this pic. The Eyes and teeth were whitened slightly. The Eyes were sharpened using unsharp mask technique. I softened the dimple on her chin by cloning at an opacity of 25%. I used a skin softening technique by adding 2 layers, then using gausian blur - 20% darken, 30% lighten and lowering the opacity to 40% on each. Gausian blur applied to the background at 9 pixels at 40% opacity. Slightly increased the contrast to highlight her hair. I then applied a blurred lighting vignette at 10% opacity with a 98.8 pixel gausian blur.


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Place: 247 out of 624
Avg (all users): 5.7473
Avg (commenters): 6.6000
Avg (participants): 5.7310
Avg (non-participants): 5.8049
Views since voting: 1146
Views during voting: 351
Votes: 186
Comments: 14
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AuthorThread
 08/11/2007 02:06:21 PM
beatiful color....
 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/07/2007 09:56:10 PM
too neat-imaged.
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 03/07/2007 09:37:38 PM
Beautiful shot, but maybe a little too much with the dodging on the eyes and teeth! I've fallen into this trap many times! Just need to cut it back a little!
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 03/06/2007 08:18:54 PM
Very nice shallow DOF. Really like the vignetting around your shot. Eyes really jump out at you! I think I am really starting to like red heads. :P Nice work.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/06/2007 03:05:53 PM
its a nice portrait but her eyes and teeth are unnaturally white, skin looks too soft.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/06/2007 12:02:36 AM
NICE...
 03/03/2007 05:15:41 AM
Nice portrait - good light and sharpness - 7
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 03/02/2007 05:52:45 PM
Excellent image! Couldn't think of a thing that could improve this!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/02/2007 01:41:12 AM
Nice lighting and great pose/composition. Just find the PP a little too much which makes the model look a little plastic.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/01/2007 11:36:20 PM
i'll say! 8
 03/01/2007 10:27:14 PM
Sweet !!!!!!!!!
 03/01/2007 07:53:17 PM
The smoothing of the face seems a bit extreme it looks a little unnatural, the colors work really well here though and I like the background of the wicker
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/01/2007 12:05:17 PM
Beauty, indeed!
 03/01/2007 09:03:37 AM
She's lovely. I think she's way too close to the wicker/woven background. Seems a touch overdone with either softness or maybe neat image. I love her smile and eyes. Great hair. I'd prefer she not be so dead centered. Maybe more neg. space to one side.
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