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The Purple Princess
The Purple Princess
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Challenge: Free Study 2010-08 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 EX DG APO IF for Nikon
Location: Cardif ,Wales, UK
Date: Aug 14, 2010
Aperture: f 9.0
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Emotive, Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Aug 22, 2010

 A capture grabbed at the end of a long studio session. The flowers were left over from a wedding party I'd been to the night before and were destined for the compost bin until I asked to have them :-)

Quite a bit of colour work on this to match the eyelids and lips to the blooms and the velvet. 'Selective Color' is such a powerful tool for this sort of work!

Other than that a bit of cloning to tidy things up, some dodge and burn and selective blur to bring the focus to the face.

Thanks to Stacey for toughing it out with that heavy floral arrangement almost pulling her arms off.

Statistics
Place: 135 out of 360
Avg (all users): 5.7417
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 5.5870
Avg (non-participants): 6.2500
Views since voting: 780
Views during voting: 212
Votes: 120
Comments: 4
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 09/08/2010 03:29:42 PM
I gave this one my highest score, cant believe it ended up all the way back here. I think that if you had given it a little more pop, and what Tom said, this probably would have done better (but that's just my taste). I really like the body and shawl though, I don't think they detract at all.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/05/2010 09:28:26 PM
Interesting but very morbid looking.
 09/03/2010 03:54:10 PM
Cool! It's nice to see all the effort that was put into this. The only thing I would perhaps change is the background... the gray doesn't seem to go with anything in the photo. Great shot though!
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 09/03/2010 03:06:59 PM
Incredibly bizarre. And terrific. I think the body and shawl are completely unnecessary, and actually detract from the composition.
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