Challenge: Free Study 2007-07 (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II
Location: My garage
Date: Jul 14, 2007
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/25s
Galleries: Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Jul 15, 2007
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The title is a reference to the kids rhyme, "Monday's child is fair of face".
This was going to be an entry for the natural light portrait, but I had already entered the Paper challenge, so this is now in the Free Study. I want to explore portraits more, so I should try to enter one per month into the Free Study.
This photo is of my son Josh. He was a great model, and made up his own story during the photoshoot. Apparently he is a carpenter, and the photo shows him in his carpenter's shop, waiting for customers to come.
The photo was taken in the garage (also my wood-workshop). The garage door is open, and the sun is shining on the floor, so all the light is beaming up from in front of Josh. He's wearing a nepalese hat given by his hat-mad uncle, and we turned his batman shirt backwards, so you can't see the big design on the front. He's sitting on a petrol can, and the shoot was taken in about 10 minutes before he left to see a movie. I would have loved to take this with a 50mm f1.8, but I don't have one yet, so it's just the kit lens. :)
Editing took a loooong time - 10 minute photoshoot, and probably 6 hours of experimental editing and re-editing, with lots of curves adjustment layers, masks, manual dodging and burning, crop, recrops, slight duotone, vignettes. I tried many crops and eventually settled on this one. I really like the square crop, and the closeness around his face, but still keeping his hands.
I originally submitted this image at 720px, but I thought it was too big. I prefer it at 640. Hopefully the last minute downsizing won't go against it in the voting if all the other images are slightly larger.
I don't want to make a predition on this one. I'm hoping for a PB with this image, but the competition in the free studies is really strong, so I don't want to predict a score. This is my first free study. Wish me luck! :)
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