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Challenge: Free Study 2007-06 (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Nikon D70s
Lens: Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO DG Macro for Nikon
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Date: Jun 10, 2007
Aperture: f/ 5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/350 sec.
Galleries: Candid, Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Jun 30, 2007

 I was sitting in front of church and taking candids of people as the passed by for the last Candid Challenge. I was also shoot some macros in front of the church. Steven and some others came along after the social hour after church. Steve was walking towards and posed. I took two shots and they were not working. As I chimped the bad pictures and adjusted the camera shutter speed, Steve pulled out his pipe and lit up. I had meant to take the lens off macro mode and forgot. I took two shots, another and this, just as Steve finished lighting his pipe and puffed a billow of smoke. I got a kick out of how it turned out and so did Steve and the others. Hope you do as well.

Post: I processed and reprossed this image until I got to this final form. Concvert from raw in PSElements 3.0 with a +0.33 exposure compensation. Layer adjustments for levels, brightness/contrast and hue/saturation. May have also been a curves adjustment. Expunged some dust in the background. Mask selection of Steve and the Pipe and applied NeatImage to the background. Sharpen. Resize. Sharpen.

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07/05/2007 10:00:07 AM
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 07/02/2007 04:24:19 AM
I really like the subject and the shot is good. I would have preferred to see the subject moved closer to the left hand side and more negative space on the right, including the whole smoke cloud.
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