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This young man (one of the seniors at the same school) was an impersonation for my daughter's kindergarten class to teach about the great American Historical figure, Johnny Appleseed.
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Interesting shot, interesting processing. To me, this is very over processed, with HDR you are meant to see teh finer details in things. I am having a hard time with finding the details. The shadows on the face are very harsh and are washed away with no details, the apple, to my eye actaully looks like a peach. The pants though are spot on and very well done in your processing. They almost looked acid washed.
The grain here is not helping so much, I thought you added grain till i read your notes, so maybe a little noise reduction would have smoothed some grain away. But not a lot as it would take away from the grunge of this shot.
Too weird. I'm not caring for the treatment of this, but I want to make it clear that it's not bad, just personal taste. Are those headphone wires? I'll bet that pot does some interesting things for audio enhancement. You do get a vote on the positive side just for the sheer absurdity of this, however!
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