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Challenge: Color Portrait II (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Sony DSLR-A100
Lens: Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical ED Zoom Lens for Sony Alpha
Location: Outside in a tree
Date: Mar 13, 2007
Aperture: f/7.1
ISO: 320
Shutter: 1/80s
Galleries: Candid, Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Mar 13, 2007

 © Claire McAdams
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This was a really interesting photoshoot because it took place about 20 feet in the air and I was holding both the camera and a reflector and I was my back on a limb parallel to hers with nothing to hold onto at all. Yah...scary.

But yeah it was a really cloudy overcast day but there was this big space with 2 giant trees, one of which was covered with really beautiful bright green leaves (the background.) We tried getting up that tree but there was no way, so climbed a different tree. Tiffany had to step on my back to reach the first place she could grab and then I just had to jump and pull my self up...we both got lots of scratches in the process.

The lighting was just a reflector which you can kind of see in her eyes. I did a lot of post processing on her face and I am not sure if I like it or not. Her forehead had a lot of blemishes on it so I cloned and airbrushed them out in photoshop but then thought there wasn't enough texture and so then I made a layer with the original and a layer with the cleaned up face and then put the cleaned up face about about 70% opacity so that some of the texture would show through. There were also a lot of stray hairs I cloned out.
I also cropped this a bit to bring more focus to her and not so much to the tree. I also darkened some bright spots on the background where harsh light came through the leaves.

I brought down the saturation just a tad and I also brightened and uped the contrast a TINY bit because the original exposure was pretty much perfect.

:)

Hope everyone likes this picture as much as I do...

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 06/10/2007 06:11:47 PM
Great shot here. Wow 20 feet in the air. Have you considered wearing a helmet the next time you do some stunt photography. Processing on the face is great.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/25/2007 07:46:28 AM
tenderness...
 03/22/2007 11:27:23 PM
Great work! I vote a perfect 10!
 03/21/2007 02:30:30 PM
Wonderful!
 03/20/2007 07:32:16 PM
CUTE, clear and colorful
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 03/19/2007 07:54:25 PM
Nicely done. This is a nice pose and an excellent exposure.
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