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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Color Portrait II (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Date: Mar 18, 2007
Aperture: f/3.5
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/25 sec
Galleries: Portraiture, Self Portrait
Date Uploaded: Mar 18, 2007

That's me. I am holding a little shop light which is illuminating the background (black foamcore). Another little shop light from the front/top lights up the rest. The letters are hung with thread from a dowel above my head.

Shot in RAW: adjusted white balance

PS:
Crop
Cloned out the thread and a bit on the left edge
NI
Curves
Brightness/Contrast
Hue/Sat (several layers)
Various dodge/burn/clone/blur all over the place for minor tweaks
Resize
Sharpen
Save for Web

Statistics
Place: 200 out of 268
Avg (all users): 5.1297
Avg (commenters): 6.6667
Avg (participants): 5.1705
Avg (non-participants): 5.0928
Views since voting: 879
Views during voting: 315
Votes: 185
Comments: 5
Favorites: 0


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03/30/2007 05:29:48 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club

Composition: The composition is good but I feel you are a little close to the right side for comfort. I also wonder if the way the letters curve up to the top of the frame isn't causing an unnatural line in the image - I say this because my eye is drawn from you out to the "H", which is taking me away from the model.

Technicals: The lighting is good, maybe the backlighting could be a bit higher. The PP work is very good.

Feel: I wish the letters were a bit more "professional" looking as they seem to drop the tone of the image a bit. If I had voted I think that fact would have dropped a point and maybe a lot of other voters felt similar? Overall a pleasant image and as a portrait would work very well. Your creative streak, whcih you should continue to foster, may have in this case not added to the overall image :(

PM me if you have any querstions.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/23/2007 03:16:29 PM
Funny.. well performed.
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03/20/2007 12:32:11 PM
Interesting and creative, I like this!
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03/20/2007 11:46:40 AM
hmm peculiar....
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03/19/2007 04:33:49 AM
would IMO have worked better without the letters
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