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Challenge: Selective Desaturation II (Advanced Editing V)
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Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
Location: London, UK
Date: May 20, 2007
Aperture: F/4
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/200th
Galleries: Urban, Self Portrait
Date Uploaded: May 20, 2007

 Self portrait time!

Extracted from RAW with default settings, then cropped, resized to 640px, and sharpened. I then took two layer copies, and ran the 'Virtual Photographer - Hollywood' contrast b&w filter on one, then faded 33% onto a -100% desat layer. The final layer I deleted until just the ball was left, boosted saturation +20%, a little burning to get the sky & buildings, and merged all the layers.

Statistics
Place: 311 out of 556
Avg (all users): 5.2995
Avg (commenters): 5.1667
Avg (participants): 5.1040
Avg (non-participants): 6.0682
Views since voting: 874
Views during voting: 353
Votes: 217
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/27/2007 06:07:35 PM
I've seen this idea done better before. The illusion is ruined a bit if you've got the camera so obvious in the shot.
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 05/24/2007 01:22:43 AM
Very cool! To be honest, I was turned off by the fact that you are in the reflection but the overall effect won me over in the end. Nice job on a great concept...
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 05/23/2007 03:53:44 PM
I wish what I saw in the reflection was a bit more interesting... no offense to you :)
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 05/23/2007 12:21:46 PM
Amazingly creative - wonderful idea!! It might be cool to see it with a little more contrast and saturation... but otherwise great shot. :)
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 05/22/2007 01:50:36 PM
I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to vote low on this one... potentially a good idea, but the obvious reflection of the photographer and house with driveway really ruin this image for me. To me it says either 1.) Lack of inspiration or worse 2.) Laziness. - 3
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 05/22/2007 06:52:24 AM
It's a pity that I can see the camera in the ball. The idea si nice, 6.
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 05/21/2007 03:25:54 PM
Nice idea, but a little distracting background, the white line cuts straight though.
You also should have done it naked "EBay style" ;-)
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 05/21/2007 11:21:20 AM
if you could find a way to prop the ball up on something, and get yourself out of the picture this one has postential. As it is, it's distracting.
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