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Challenge: Female Portrait (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Model's Apartment, in Tempe, Arizona.
Date: May 26, 2008
Aperture: f/5.0
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/400s
Galleries: Portraiture, Black and White
Date Uploaded: May 27, 2008

 From my first shoot with a model, ever. I had to wake up at six o'clock in the morning for this shoot, when I usually go to sleep at 5 in the morning. Damn east facing window. I think this turned out rather well, even though I am exhausted and getting physically sick from sleep deprivation.

Editing steps:
Curves
Black and white, opacity down to 50%
Gaussian Blur, faded down to 20%
NeatImage
Resize
Border

I predict maybe a 5 or a 5.5, DPC seems to hate pictures I really love.

Natural light. Model is Nancy.

Statistics
Place: 124 out of 176
Avg (all users): 4.8836
Avg (commenters): 4.8182
Avg (participants): 4.2698
Avg (non-participants): 5.0524
Views since voting: 1130
Views during voting: 602
Votes: 292
Comments: 14
Favorites: 2 (view)

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AuthorThread
 06/05/2008 05:03:48 AM
It's a shame this didn't score all that well - it does go against a few of the "DPC high scoring rules" but it should have done better IMO. I think if you'd entered any of your other shots from your first series you would have scored much much higher.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/03/2008 01:07:43 PM
Interesting.....: )
 06/02/2008 02:05:29 PM
I like because it is not a high contrasted silhouette... Very well done!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/01/2008 10:09:38 PM
Not quite dark enough to be a real silhouette, but not light enough to actually show the staring eyes...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/01/2008 01:36:44 PM
i like the lighting effect on the sides of her body.
 06/01/2008 08:28:02 AM
Good idea, just needed to see a little of the face though...
 05/31/2008 09:25:27 PM
i can barely see the stare, but if there was perhaps just a spot of catchlight or even a kind of spotlight/bar of light over her eyes it would give it more punch.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/29/2008 10:51:25 PM
women are mysterious. that's for sure. 9
 05/29/2008 10:21:26 PM
It´s more like a silhuet, not a portrait
 05/29/2008 12:34:49 AM
This is interesting, but I would have like it more if the tree wasn't in the backdrop.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/29/2008 12:08:57 AM
way too dark
 05/28/2008 10:29:56 PM
I like this photo, although I am not sure it could be described as a portrait. It leaves me wanting to see what the shadow is hiding.
 05/28/2008 01:49:41 PM
Not a portrait... no face.
 05/28/2008 12:41:43 AM
We can't see if she is or isn't... 3


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