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Challenge: Full-Length Studio Shot (Advanced Editing VII*)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Concord, California, USA
Date: Apr 19, 2010
Aperture: 3.19
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/159
Galleries: Family, Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Apr 20, 2010

 Isaac in a pose based on "The Statue Of The Crane" in one of his forms, along with a wooden replica of a Chinese broadsword for extra effect.

I have no studio space or modeling lights, so we used an overcast sky and the trunk of a very large pine tree as a backdrop.

-Handheld, Manual mode
-Fill-flash
-RGB Curve
-Isolate Green Channel to Grayscale document
-Create mask for background
-Blur background through mask
-Clone out some stray grass and facial blotches
-Resize
-Crop
-Touch-up blur with Blur tool
-Touch-up BG with Dodge/Burn tools
-USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH = 6
-Increase Canvas Size
-Fill Canvas with bilinear gradient
-Grayscale Curve to adjust gradient
-4 pixel black stroke around outside
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 142KB

Statistics
Place: 65 out of 83
Avg (all users): 5.0000
Avg (commenters): 4.2857
Avg (participants): 4.4318
Avg (non-participants): 5.1008
Views since voting: 1114
Views during voting: 539
Votes: 292
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/25/2010 01:48:39 AM
Good shot but the borders are not working for me. Also, the attempt at a shallow DOF through Photoshop isn't the cleanest. I like the choice to go b/w. Good luck.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/22/2010 12:55:50 PM
the pp for the blur doesn't work for me, nor the border
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/21/2010 08:13:11 PM
The shallow DOF works very nicely here. Good job.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/21/2010 02:18:39 PM
I like the idea, but I feel the legs should be just as sharp as the torso.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/21/2010 10:45:52 AM
Nice, but a bit blurry in spots which distracts. 5
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/21/2010 05:54:34 AM
Two things made me give this a really low score. First off, the post processing blurring of the backround is really sub standard, it´s really obvious and I always reccomend doing the blurring in camera if possible. Secondly the gradient "pillars" or whatever it is on the sides just throw me off. There is actually a third thing that bothers me, this seems to be shot outdoors when the challenge says studio shot but I´ll give you the benefit of the doubt since I can´t know for sure.

I do like the pose/outfit.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/21/2010 01:46:29 AM
Nice idea - but perhaps you blurred the background in pp? His foot on the ground has a lot of issues. Like your concept though!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/21/2010 12:33:36 AM
First, was supposed to be in studio, second the processing has horrid jagged images around him from where I believe you blurred the background.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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