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Mother and Daughter (Reluctant models)
Mother and Daughter (Reluctant models)
geewhy


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Portrait (Advanced Editing I)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S602Z
Location: Home
Date: Mar 14, 2004
Aperture: f6.3
ISO: 160
Shutter: 1/12
Galleries: Portraiture, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Mar 14, 2004

This is my wife and daughter, who took a lot of coaxing before agreeing to pose for my first attempt at portraiture.
(This is going to cost me) :(

Image changed to B/W using channel mixer.
Adjustments to Contrast to get a grainy effect.
USM
"NeatImage" used to give a softening effect.
Some cloning to remove blemishes.
Image cropped and resized and border added.

Statistics
Place: 124 out of 135
Avg (all users): 4.2000
Avg (commenters): 4.3125
Avg (participants): 4.0202
Avg (non-participants): 4.3534
Views since voting: 1430
Votes: 215
Comments: 17
Favorites: 0


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04/14/2004 08:38:02 PM
I like this a lot. Experimentation is good! It's amazing how many people think that such effects could even have been achieved unintentionally.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/19/2004 10:42:19 AM
Quite a lot of detail is lost due to overexposure, the faces start to loose shape, especially on the right half of the face (their right, left for the viewer)
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03/19/2004 08:09:50 AM
Good framing, and their eyes look good. I think there is too much detail lost on the faces, though.
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03/18/2004 10:15:48 PM
Interesting. almost looks like a charcoal drawing. Still resembles photography to me, but you are gonna get hammered. I do like the softness of it, especially for a portrait
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03/17/2004 07:38:55 PM
a little overexposed in my opinion, but i like the composition
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03/17/2004 03:49:01 PM
I empathize - my family aren't into modeling for portraits either too often. :) Nice use of monochrome and soft focus. - 6
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03/16/2004 11:46:00 PM
I just don't get the eroded and blurred lines and the hot lighting. I think the pose and expressions would have made a strong more traditional rendering.
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03/16/2004 07:15:10 PM
As a portrait I find this image too grainy and washed out in the highlights. It fails to move me to want to knwo more about the models
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03/16/2004 04:02:29 PM
A great capture of the subject's personality - something every portrait should strive to do.
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03/16/2004 11:31:26 AM
Nice pose and great smiles. IMHO The overexposure is too much. I would like to see more detail and contrast. BOL
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03/15/2004 06:36:54 PM
"It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger." - Paul Strand"

This is not a bad composition. I personally don't care much for this exposure/post processing combo.
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03/15/2004 01:23:33 PM
I feel it is a little too much over edited.
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03/15/2004 12:40:40 PM
Pretty ladies. I'm not sure why the tones/treatment? It just makes them look washed out. Focus is good.
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03/15/2004 09:29:04 AM
I'm sure thsi captures the essence of morther and daughter and it makes an "arty" study. I suspect that the way the light has caught the daughter's face produces a distortion of her face shape; her left cheek needs less light (in the bottom right hand, to us, corner) to provide balance.
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03/15/2004 02:32:28 AM
Nice shot, I would've like this better if it were sharper, not so faded
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03/15/2004 12:37:24 AM
the effect that you have used has given this a really bad overexposed look
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03/15/2004 12:20:31 AM
Oh, this is a great shot but the post processing really hurts it to me ;( The blow out on the left sides of their faces, the noise in the shot, makes it unique but I would score so much higher if a cleaner, better contrasted shot. As is a 6
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