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Camera: Nikon D300
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6G VR
Location: Solvang, CA
Date: Dec 17, 2007
Aperture: f/4
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Family
Date Uploaded: Jun 5, 2008

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Comments: 8
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This is a bit busy, but i like the shot. this is my wife in the car. thus the car door!

pp was... a lot.

-opened in capture NX.
-dark, light, & mid tone control points.
-saved as tif and into PS
- selective gaussian blur, levels, unsharp mask, crop
-clone stamp on left side of face to fix contrast from my hand
-saved at tif opened in portrait pro
- small adjustment to face, smoothed skin (from clone)
-back into PS and a couple of selective levels
-another gaussian blur over the top half
-one last levels to face
- and done!

oh and i flattened the image a few times in there as well. =)

original:

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06/14/2008 10:02:44 PM
Great job in warming up the tones in this capture. The tones of the original were more to the cold blues - here the warmer tones compliment her skin better...not only that it warms up the color feel of the image. And by that I mean the autumn hues of the leaves are now a deeper warmer shade of orange and yellows. I know that you like the image and it would (SHOULD) be a wonderful shot of a beautiful young women gazing out the window upon the autumn adorned trees but I find that the reflection of the photographer within the photo distracts from that mood & feel. I would recommend getting a GOOD quality polarizer to remove reflections (my research lead me to buy Moose's Warm Circular Polarizer which works beautifully) but then that would rob this shot of the autumn tree and the mood of 'reflecting' upon nature you have captured here. The simplest solution is to change angle mayhap a 45 degree angle or 25 degree will keep all those lovely elements within the shot.

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06/08/2008 12:40:51 PM
This will make a cool keepsake kind of photo. I echo the whites in the eyes comment. Your wife looks so young and it's a beautiful photo of her.
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06/06/2008 07:56:25 PM
I love shots with unexpected reflections in them.
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06/06/2008 06:17:49 PM
She reminds me of Uma Thurmon- the actress- great stuff :)
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06/06/2008 04:18:51 AM
Your edit certainly did this justice. Only one problem I can see... that camera says NIKON ;) hehe
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06/05/2008 10:00:45 PM
Nice.. love the stronger orange in this image.
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06/05/2008 04:49:15 PM
great shot and i like your processing ..
i'd be converting the whites of her eyes to more of a white colour rather than blue, but that's just my opinion .. :)
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06/05/2008 02:14:08 PM
Spectacular job on a lovely face. I love the artfulness of using reflected shadows on glass to get what is within/behind. (Now about your glasses: always interesting to see what people do with them when using the viewfinder; might look more cool on top of your head, but that is more there than here, hehe).
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