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Challenge: Stars (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Martinez, California, USA
Date: Dec 9, 2008
Aperture: 3.51
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/202
Galleries: Emotive, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Dec 10, 2008

 Seeing stars ...

Isaac and Sensei Mark staged this for me after class.

I knew under the lighting conditions I'd have to use the highest ISO setting and that it would be noisy, so I planned on making the "grain" part of the composition, and to go with a B&W or toned look.

-Handheld, Tv mode
-Channel Mixer in monochrome mode; Red +130, Green +40, Blue -40
-RGB Curve to partially invert: 0=0, 52=100, 82=76, 100=0
-Blue/Yellow Curve to tone: 6=0, 77=78, 100=100
-Resize
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH 0
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5
-Crop a tiny bit (mostly from the top) to save file size
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 8/10 = 199KB

[Dec. 17th, 2008 01:35:14 PM]

Resized original: [thumb]748106[/thumb]

Statistics
Place: 86 out of 87
Avg (all users): 3.5987
Avg (commenters): 3.5455
Avg (participants): 3.3864
Avg (non-participants): 3.6852
Views since voting: 1024
Views during voting: 289
Votes: 152
Comments: 16
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 12/26/2008 02:14:03 AM
Originally posted by smardaz:
Originally posted by CassieDoodle:
Originally posted by photokariangel:
ah man, i see you may be new to this? a few pointers:
1. way way too much grain, its super distracting
2. the picure looks like a snapshot of friends
3. the use of turning the image into a negative,
really makes this image negative in my eyes, i dont like it.
4. the overhead light is very distracting.

Hope this helped, and keep trying!


LOL Anyone else find this kind of ironic figuring he's on site council?

:P


deliciously so....


ahahahahaha! boy, do i know how to spot em! baha, this is too funny
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/23/2008 12:30:09 AM
Originally posted by CassieDoodle:
Originally posted by photokariangel:
ah man, i see you may be new to this? a few pointers:
1. way way too much grain, its super distracting
2. the picure looks like a snapshot of friends
3. the use of turning the image into a negative,
really makes this image negative in my eyes, i dont like it.
4. the overhead light is very distracting.

Hope this helped, and keep trying!


LOL Anyone else find this kind of ironic figuring he's on site council?

:P


deliciously so....
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/22/2008 02:36:42 PM
Originally posted by photokariangel:
ah man, i see you may be new to this? a few pointers:
1. way way too much grain, its super distracting
2. the picure looks like a snapshot of friends
3. the use of turning the image into a negative,
really makes this image negative in my eyes, i dont like it.
4. the overhead light is very distracting.

Hope this helped, and keep trying!


LOL Anyone else find this kind of ironic figuring he's on site council?

:P
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/22/2008 08:18:56 AM
I thought you captured the spirit of the movie well. I gave you a 7.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/21/2008 07:22:39 PM
I like your effect.....sure does convey STARS!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/21/2008 06:44:49 PM
ah man, i see you may be new to this? a few pointers:
1. way way too much grain, its super distracting
2. the picure looks like a snapshot of friends
3. the use of turning the image into a negative,
really makes this image negative in my eyes, i dont like it.
4. the overhead light is very distracting.

Hope this helped, and keep trying!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/21/2008 10:43:57 AM
Way overdone.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/20/2008 05:20:02 PM
::singing:: Seeing stars, He's seeing stars.

NVCO
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/20/2008 12:42:33 PM
looks a over processed.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/19/2008 07:13:18 PM
nice shot, like it
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/17/2008 06:37:05 PM
OK, maybe he's seeing stars, but it's far too overprocessed and noisy for me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/17/2008 12:21:01 PM
the use of grain, high contrast, and backlighting to give an almost etching like feel works pretty well - i am just not completely convinced on the light positioning in the image
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/16/2008 07:18:22 PM
I think perhaps a title like 'Seeing Stars' might have been more fitting. Interesting effect but I don't think this image will be very well received.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/16/2008 03:55:02 PM
I think you went to some effort taking this picture, but to my tastes it's too over processed, and I don't really like the effects you've presented. I think this would have been much better in its natural state i.e. without all the processing.

Good luck :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/16/2008 01:13:13 PM
looks like you caught the moment...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/15/2008 11:02:06 AM
A different take on the challenge and very different processing. Can't say I like the processing but that's just a personal preference.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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