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Between Two Lungs
Between Two Lungs
Jon_H


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Body Forms (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Canon EOS-450D Rebel XSi
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Location: Liverpool.
Date: Oct 19, 2010
Aperture: F3.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Oct 19, 2010

I was originally going to use a cauliflower as a brain and attempt to replicate an autopsy with my daughter but as i could not figure out how to do it the lungs was the next consideration.

when i suggested it my wife said have a look at Florence and the Machines album cover, and so the idea was born.

Cauliflower cut in half, ribbon tied through cauliflower. flowers poked through conifer hedge.

Processing:

Raw adjustments,
adjust skin tone
Surface blur
Remove blur fro lips and tatoo
Remove stray hair
Adjust layer for lips and tatoo
Sharpen
Dode hair
Burn selective areas
Adjustment layer for lungs.

Statistics
Place: 18 out of 33
Avg (all users): 4.9610
Avg (commenters): 5.0000
Avg (participants): 4.6364
Avg (non-participants): 4.9952
Views since voting: 1385
Views during voting: 689
Votes: 231
Comments: 4
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/25/2010 01:14:06 PM
I like the visual connection you have established here, but it has issues. The cauliflowers have an ummm... "flat appearance" would be the right word, but it has unintended meaning here.
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10/20/2010 03:09:32 PM
Interesting concept!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
10/20/2010 12:06:32 PM
I like the way she has a heart on her forearm mirroring the Florence and the Machine album cover. The challenge brief was to have both the body part, and it's mirror in the environment. I don't see the body part, only the environment. I realise it's sort of hard to show the real lungs so I will cut you some slack on that one - others have not been spared the minus point for the technical DNMC. I think this image could have been a bit sharper, and I find the positioning of some of the flowers a distraction (the sliver of yellow on the left, the orange one growing from her armpit). They may have looked better in isolation from the body rather than overlapping. Is that bits of daylight showing through the tree top left? If so, maybe flowers inserted there might help disguise that element. 10 out of 10 for effort... 5 out of 10 for execution.
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10/20/2010 06:21:09 AM
Good idea, although i think the processing is a little over done on the Lungs.
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