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"Haai, dis nie a goeie plek nie, meneer!" (It's not a good place, sir!)
"Haai, dis nie a goeie plek nie, meneer!" (It's not a good place, sir!)
tonyv


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Free Study 2008-04 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
Location: Koelenhof
Date: Apr 30, 2008
Aperture: f/9
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/50 sec
Galleries: Emotive, Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Apr 30, 2008

 Taken in an informal housing "estate" that is on private property, and the farmer wants nothing to do with the residents, and the municipality can't help because it is private.

Lets see, from the bottom:
* Soft dodge & burn layer using Soft Light mode
* Levels - slight adjustment
* Curves - steepened slope in Normal mode
* Hue / Saturation layer to push the red and yellows and pull back the greens, blues and cyans
* Selective Colour layer to move the cyans and blues towards green and yellows and reds towards magenta.
* Levels to push the area around the lady
* Channel Mixer at 40% opacity to tone down all the colours and make it a bit more sombre.
* Sharpen using high pass filter on soft light mode layer
* Resize
* Save for web.

Guesstimated Score: 5.7 to 6.0

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AuthorThread
 05/12/2008 03:32:11 PM
perhaps not, but a lekker snap, china...
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/07/2008 06:23:30 PM
Like the sharpness, but this is lacking in middle tones. jmho.
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 05/06/2008 09:05:03 AM
For environmental portraits, I love the wide angle lenses. With a wider lens, you can show more of the place with the person still large in the frame. Particularly with this title, it would be great to see more of the place around this interesting lady.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/04/2008 01:24:48 PM
love the style that you have caught here, interesting title gives it more drama as well. very nice portrait
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 05/02/2008 10:42:00 PM
Gritty real world street photography here. She looks tough.
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 05/02/2008 12:15:07 PM
A bit overexposedthe cup has lost detail and overall the image lacks punch!
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