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"True Grit"
"True Grit"
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Challenge: The Cowboy (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Date: Jun 8, 2008
Aperture: f4
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Portraiture, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Jun 8, 2008

 I hope this photo does justice to Sean's memory.
"True Grit" was a John Wayne movie for which he won an Oscar.(1969) For the movie buffs out there I didn't think it was necessary to include an eye-patch!
Thank you Brian for showing "true grit" and letting me photograph you.
Cropped, resized, sepia, hue, lighting exposure, blending, colour, clone, noise reduction, usm

Statistics
Place: 28 out of 91
Avg (all users): 6.0337
Avg (commenters): 6.2000
Avg (participants): 5.9024
Avg (non-participants): 6.0730
Views since voting: 878
Views during voting: 364
Votes: 178
Comments: 14
Favorites: 0

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 06/16/2008 01:58:34 AM
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/15/2008 10:45:48 PM
I like the dappled light and the way this blends into the background. well done.
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 06/15/2008 07:27:37 PM
Nice shot and processing. I would like it better if he wasn't facing out of the picture, but the eyes going inwards really helps resolve that a lot.
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 06/15/2008 11:48:43 AM
Beautiful use of dappled light, and, duotone fits the picture perfectly. I probably would have tried to burn the blown-out areas of the tree in the left a bit more. Great image.
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 06/14/2008 11:49:25 PM
Great title.......
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 06/14/2008 04:01:12 AM
face looks very processed
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 06/13/2008 03:19:15 PM
great composition! the lighting works so well for this photo.
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 06/11/2008 10:33:10 AM
Like the gritty face, but the shadows are very distracting to me. Like the gnarled tree comparison with the cowboy's wrinkles. Does he have long hair? Can't quite tell, and that's distracting as well. Coloring is just a little too green.
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 06/10/2008 09:36:45 PM
Very 60s! Cool shot!
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 06/09/2008 08:04:22 PM
Where did you find him?! He looks so authentic ... Nice dappled light. Also like the choice of sepia.
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 06/09/2008 06:45:17 PM
is this a cowboy with a mullet?
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 06/09/2008 06:02:40 PM
This guy has me almost convinced, then I look at the hat. -1 for the too clean hat, good score anyway..
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 06/09/2008 01:20:36 PM
The lighting hurts the image....it would be better with more even lighting, especially on the face.
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 06/09/2008 11:16:05 AM
Very nice, vintage western feel to this. I like the dappled light on his face.
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