Collection:Workshop Camera:Canon PowerShot S3 IS Location: Oakland, California, USA Date: Oct 10, 2010 Aperture: 3.51 ISO: 80 Shutter: 1/501 Galleries:Emotive, History Date Uploaded: Oct 10, 2010
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Saints are traditionally depicted with a glowing nimbus or halo around the head. Used opaque black paper with an approximately round hole to mask off a CFL bulb and positioned doll in front. Shot at a low angle from about 5 feet away with telephoto (436mm) to lessen flash effect; shot with onboard flash at 2/3 power.
Given the era depicted, I wanted the FG lighting to look like torchlight, perhaps a little more yellow-red than if this was to be a regular portrait shot.
-Handheld, manual mode
-Some cloning to even out mask edges and remove a couple of harsh reflections.
-Make mask for background area
-Gaussian Blur to BG through mask
-RGB Curve
-Crop
-Resize
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice)
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 211KB
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