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Challenge: Color Portrait II (Advanced Editing V)
Collection: Family and Friends
Camera: Olympus E-500 EVOLT
Location: Inside
Date: Mar 18, 2007
Aperture: 4.5
ISO: 1/25
Shutter: 200
Date Uploaded: Mar 18, 2007

 People won't like the blurry left hand but such is life.

This is my BABY and my little soul mate. Love him to pieces. The fact that I got him to do this without making and Calvin and Hobbs kind of face is a miracle.

This is my first super processed pic for this site. I tried to follow a tutorial by xianart and so i did some radial gradient thing - I think? And then I screwed up the left hand color so I dodged that some. I think this is where the red left hand appeared (and some on the cheeks too).

Crop
Curves
Channel Mixer
Sharpen
Healing Tool - he had this thing on the wrist that stuck out into the pic. I hope that is legal to use healing tool?

Radial Gradient of some kind (in all honesty I do not know the correct terminology for getting the background darker.)
And then I used some kind of mask to get the face lighter. I was playing and not paying attention.
So the hand turned out too red and I desaturated some of the red. Then dodged it. Otherwise, the blur was in the original.

Then Neat Image.

I am pleased with it and I hope that the PP experts will see to it to leave corrective comments.

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Edited on 1/3/09 with my new photoshop skillzzzzzz


Statistics
Place: 95 out of 268
Avg (all users): 5.7083
Avg (commenters): 6.3333
Avg (participants): 5.5978
Avg (non-participants): 5.8100
Views since voting: 837
Views during voting: 262
Votes: 192
Comments: 16
Favorites: 0

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 04/28/2007 11:40:01 PM
I'm floored at the score. I voted this an 8. The clarity of his eyes, the spot-on focus, and his expression are all wonderful. Yes, if I lean waaaayyyy in, I can see of the artifacts. But I don't vote with my nose 1/2" from the screen. :)

As for those artifacts, try copying the original into a new layer, sharpening that layer, and then creating a layer mask and painting black in the layer mask of the sharpened layer, to remove it and let the original show through. That essentially lets you do spot sharpening that's reversible.
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 04/01/2007 09:43:33 AM
this is a great image, definitely should have been 6+

very nice job
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 03/28/2007 10:22:13 AM
E? What's the title about?
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 03/26/2007 01:15:42 AM
Congratulations on a top 10 finish! great shot - precious child! I think the hand placement and hat position is perfect - gives life to the photo.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/25/2007 10:33:30 PM
PRECIOUS!!!! Lovely, soft tones which suit the mood and really express this child's features and perhaps, soul. Lovely shot.
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 03/23/2007 07:59:08 PM
Fac and hands seem a little too pink. Otherwise, I think it's excellent.
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 03/23/2007 09:45:10 AM
Great shot. Nothing to improve except his skin tone is a little red, but I'm thinking that was on purpose.

Good luck.
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 03/22/2007 01:19:41 AM
Too much neatimage/noise-ninja
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 03/20/2007 04:28:34 PM
Very cute composition and nice framing, I think a softer light would have worked better.
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 03/20/2007 12:07:50 PM
Awesome close-up! Gery good lighting, too.
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 03/20/2007 11:07:46 AM
Great job!
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 03/19/2007 05:12:29 PM
I'm seeing odd pixels, especially at his eyes, but there seems to be pixelating elsewhere too, such as on his cuff, on his right shoulder (our left), on his right hand, and on his hair. If I move back I don't notice it as much... maybe scaling down a little would fix it? If you getting a lower score than you'd expected, maybe thats why. Nice choice of DOF.
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 03/19/2007 03:21:06 PM
The red tinge to his eyes looks odd.
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 03/19/2007 02:04:06 PM
skin tone is not natural
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 03/19/2007 11:55:29 AM
I love it. I was going to say that his arm is casting a shadow on his left eye but I've studied it longer and I think it adds some depth. Great shot. Adorable child :)
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 03/19/2007 08:39:47 AM
Very sweet. Wish his fingers weren't cut off though.
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