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Challenge: Best of 2011 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D300
Lens: Nikon AF-S Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8G ED
Location: PSW, Las Vegas
Date: Sep 9, 2011
Aperture: 3.5
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/125
Date Uploaded: Jan 25, 2012
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At Photoshop World in Las Vegas each year Westcott Lighting puts together three or four lighted booths and supplies models and make-up artists and then they let you go to town shooting. What fun!
Editing steps:
In LR3 - WB as hot, Exposure -.20, Recovery 31, Blacks 8, Brightness 50, Contrast 25, Clarity +15, Vibrance +2, Medium Contrast Curve, Sharpening 50, Radius 1.0, Detail 25, Noise Reduction Luminance 30, Detail 50, Color 25, Detail 50, Lens Profile Auto
Export to CS5
Crop Square, Layer Viveza 2 enhance black background, Layer CEP 4 Tonal Contrast, Flatten, Layer Sharpen and brighten eyes, Flatten, Resize, USM, SFW
[Feb. 16th, 2012 01:51:53 AM]
During voting:
Feeling a bit deceptive reading the comments. As I stated above I had no control of the lighting or the makeup, this was all set up at PSW. I only controlled the model herself by telling her how and where to stand and the settings and lens used. And of course processing. But I do wish I had access to pro makeup people and models like this. |
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02/23/2012 07:45:10 PM |
| She doesn't look happy to be out =:-0 |
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02/21/2012 12:19:33 AM |
| Looking good, she should get out more ;) Great make up and concept. |
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02/21/2012 12:07:40 AM |
| Was this a performance you captured or it is a setting of your own? Anyway, it is quite hypnotic... except the teeth. |
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02/19/2012 10:08:27 PM |
Dam thats a lot of effort to go to......
Good image but I thinks it hard to make a skinny naked girl look scary, the facial expression isnt doing it for me. |
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02/19/2012 12:41:16 PM |
| i fear this may not be legal, but very cool anyways. 9 from me... |
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02/18/2012 01:54:26 AM |
| Ths is quite the make-up and outfit. She looks like something I have seen at the San Deigo Zoo....but with a bit more clothing on. Different, and that is a good thing. |
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02/17/2012 05:50:23 PM |
| Freaky cool. Wish the face were a bit sharper. |
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02/16/2012 03:31:04 PM |
| Wicked. Looks almost like you plucked her straight out of a fairy tale. |
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02/16/2012 01:52:34 PM |
| After big hunt, Grog has night on town with Thag and Ugggg. Female greets Grog at cave entrance. Grog has forgetted female's day-of-borning. Grog sleep in hollow log tonight. Is quite cozy actually. |
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02/16/2012 12:44:43 PM |
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02/16/2012 09:33:17 AM |
| So fascinating to look at. Excellent make up. 10 from me. |
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02/16/2012 08:58:37 AM |
| Very cool concept, and well executed. I feel the framing is a bit tight, as if she is out of the forest, but now she is trapped in a box! |
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02/14/2012 04:37:14 PM |
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02/14/2012 04:03:08 PM |
| Holy set-up time. This is pretty cool. I can't imagine wearing all that stuff on me though. |
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02/13/2012 10:13:29 PM |
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02/13/2012 03:59:58 PM |
"In mythos and literature, the dryad has been romanticized as a symbol of nature or a gentle & womanly creature. Keat's Ode to a Nightingale addresses them at "light-winged Dryad of the trees". The Dyrads fight on the side of light in The Chronicles of Narnia," spoke Professor Terminis as he walked to the front of his desk, turned and with a press of the button, turned on the overhead projector.
"This class," he turned back to the small handful of new hunters, "is a pretty lie. They are creatures of instinct. They will viciously attack any who come to close to their home trees. If several live in a closed circle, they attack like killer bees. They do send warning signals but most people don't know or understand what they are hearing. The best time to get rid of any infestation is at night...when the separate from their arboreal shelter and go out to gather nutrients."
Wow, mother nature gone mad or beastial! Great make-up and lighting. She has a deadly beauty to her - not something you want to stumble upon in the dark of night. |
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02/13/2012 09:39:18 AM |
| Very good, reminds me of Larus work. Gorgeous lighting 10 |
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02/13/2012 12:55:10 AM |
| Now THAT is a make-up artist's final exam! |
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02/12/2012 05:33:39 PM |
| what an amazing makeup job, must of taken hours |
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02/11/2012 10:15:11 PM |
| That is one talented MUA! Incredible job, this looks fantastic. Great lighting too and nice clear focus. Very creative, well done. |
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02/11/2012 07:37:26 PM |
| This one grabbed me ......saw a show in Hawaii about the cultures there and this reminded me of that. Nice photo. |
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02/11/2012 06:09:48 PM |
| A bit too strong light on the left, kind of blurred too. Great makeup and pose! |
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02/10/2012 12:47:24 PM |
| Very creative and Avatar-like! One of my favorites of the challenge. Good luck! |
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02/10/2012 12:41:51 PM |
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02/10/2012 09:01:39 AM |
| Very nice makeup/bodypaint, I don´t really feel that the lighting and black backround though does the bodypaint justice, I know that it´s a lot more of a hassle but this, taken on location, like in a forest or in front of an abandoned cabin, something else than a studio would have gotten a LOT better score from me. |
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