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Fine Line Between Good and Evil
Fine Line Between Good and Evil
rmezzo


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Challenge: A Single Line (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
Location: Home
Date: Jun 19, 2008
Aperture: f8.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Portraiture, Self Portrait
Date Uploaded: Jun 21, 2008

 I've been fooling around with actions lately and I really wanted to try the draganizer action. With that in mind, I got this idea.

I started by getting my wife to paint a black line down the centre of my face. Because my nose is kinda crooked and I have a bump on my head, the line didn't look to straight, so I used the rectangular marquee and the clone tool to make it perfectly straight. It doesn't look like face paint, but that's the look I was going for. I then did various adjustments to get the look right in the light side of my face and ran the draganizer action on the other. I don't know how well this will do, but it's always fun to fool around in photoshop.

Statistics
Place: 49 out of 142
Avg (all users): 5.8365
Avg (commenters): 6.2000
Avg (participants): 5.6774
Avg (non-participants): 5.9381
Views since voting: 1109
Views during voting: 338
Votes: 159
Comments: 10
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/29/2008 12:10:55 PM
Light and dark, maybe, or clean and rough, but I'm not seeing anything particularly good or evil about either side. Title aside, this is well composed, executed and processed.
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 06/27/2008 08:43:19 AM
I love the clarity and effect on this pic and it is a nice photo but.. if you maybe just made the 'evil' side look more evil (photoshop maybe?) it would have made the 'line' stand out a bit more.. that is only my opinion..:)
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 06/27/2008 07:30:52 AM
Great catchlight in the eyes. Nice clarity. I like how it's off-centered.
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 06/24/2008 11:47:27 PM
Little off center but other than that nice image.
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 06/24/2008 11:13:02 PM
Nice, I wonder if it wouldn't look even better without the black stripe. I would have also tried a symetrical composition, that is centered and rotating the face counterclockwise for a perfectly vertical midline.
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 06/24/2008 09:06:09 AM
Impressive job on the editing. I like the implication that light/good is less real, the imperfections polished away, no furrow of worry in the brow. Really thought-provoking image.

That said ... not sure it isn't just a bit of a shoehorn. I can just stretch my mind around the idea that the effect of the line is the subject instead of the physical line I see, so I'll buy it.
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 06/23/2008 06:41:55 PM
I think the subject doesn't have enough "evil" on the right side, interesting idea though
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 06/23/2008 03:09:56 PM
Nice shot.. I personally would have liked this better if the black side was not transparent.. Still very good shot IMO
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 06/23/2008 09:41:20 AM
Good concept. Centered composition would have worked better IMO. Great job with the PP of the face
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 06/23/2008 03:05:26 AM
good creative attempt top 4
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