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Laura
Laura
wehrmacher


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Challenge: Female Portrait (Basic Editing)
Collection: Challenge Entries
Camera: Pentax K10D
Lens: Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF
Location: Suburban Minneapolis
Date: May 27, 2008
Aperture: f5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/100
Galleries: Portraiture
Date Uploaded: May 27, 2008

 This is a colleague of mine. The photo doesn't do her justice, so I thought I would enter the challenge and hope for some pointers. I hope you can see some of her sparkling personality show through on this effort.
Shot was cropped to 8x10 aspect ratio, curves adjusted, desaturated and shrunk to challenge size... I hope.

After the voting:

I thank all of you for your votes and comments. You are all right about the white strip... it was an 11th hour failure on my part and has taught me to be more careful.

I am also thanking my model and as she has agreed to work with me again, you may perhaps see her again.

Take a look at what Roz did with this. You might enjoy her work. I did.

Statistics
Place: 141 out of 176
Avg (all users): 4.7030
Avg (commenters): 4.8571
Avg (participants): 4.4762
Avg (non-participants): 4.7625
Views since voting: 918
Views during voting: 460
Votes: 303
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/31/2008 12:41:14 AM
good pose

crop a little awkward
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 05/29/2008 12:15:23 PM
Is the white line on the left hand side an overlook? Nice portrait, like the B&W.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/28/2008 11:41:32 PM
There is a white bar on the side of the image (Im guessing Im not the first person to mention this) makes it look like it was a scanned photo or something went wrong in cropping no matter what it is hurting the image.

As far as the rest, the poseseems to give the subject a 3x chin and is not flattring
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/28/2008 08:49:02 PM
Very nice portrait, smile and pose. You even did well with the glasses! They always give me fits.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/28/2008 01:22:00 PM
White edge distracts...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/28/2008 10:58:14 AM
I think your white edge doesn't really add much to the photo, I'd have cropped it out.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/28/2008 08:19:13 AM
pretty subject, but not so flattering a pose. the white strip on the left side really throws me off on this. was that an accident? good picture nonetheless
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/28/2008 03:13:28 AM
hm, the white border o left distracts to me
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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