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Toddh


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Challenge: Duotones (Classic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Location: My Bathroom
Date: May 21, 2003
Aperture: 11
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/4 second
Galleries: Portraiture, Black and White
Date Uploaded: May 21, 2003

Taken at home, yes, it's me.
Cropped about 10%
Dropped colour using Channel Mixer
Converted to Greyscale
Added some contrast
Added Duotone
Duotone Colours : Very Dark Blue 5,0,53
: Burnt Yellow 210,139,1
Resized and sharpened ever so slightly
Amount :47% radius :1.2 threshold :5

This is by far my best entry to date, I love this photograph.... let's see what everyone else thinks.....

Statistics
Place: 5 out of 147
Avg (all users): 7.0645
Avg (commenters): 8.6364
Avg (participants): 7.0667
Avg (non-participants): 7.0588
Views since voting: 2366
Votes: 124
Comments: 28
Favorites: 6 (view)


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06/08/2003 02:59:43 PM
Todd, this shot is awesome. I still think it should have won this challenge, but oh well.

Keep the great shots coming. I really like the clarity of your work.
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06/02/2003 01:10:49 PM
Really good job -- I want to try your duotone color scheme sometime.
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06/02/2003 10:29:19 AM
Again, gotta say this is an awesome shot. I must admit that I'm looking at it a bit differently now that I have read that you shot it in your bathroom, though :)
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06/02/2003 01:08:32 AM
congrats, Todd! I really did like this shot a lot, and I agree with sher...beautiful capture with the eyes. You ought to be extremely pleased with this shot, its wonderful.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/01/2003 11:30:05 AM
very nice lighting, beautiful tones. I think i would have preferred a slightly different crop to get a little more or less of the face..i don't know what it is but the crop you have makes me feel its incomplete or missing something somehow, but very nicely done nonetheless.
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05/31/2003 11:24:06 AM
wonderful photo! the tones and clarity are amazing. nice eyes, too :)
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05/31/2003 02:14:35 AM
This doesn't really do much for me. It's nicely toned, although I think it would have worked better without the arc of (shirt? shoulder?) at the bottom center, which is a bit distracting.
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05/30/2003 04:20:22 PM
Awesome details -- you can almost count each individual pore! Very impressive work, sure to be a contender this week. - 10
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05/29/2003 11:42:00 PM
Fantastic in all respects.
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05/29/2003 09:10:17 PM
Great, looks like he just stepped out of a John Steinbeck novel. I don't normally care for "people pix", but this one just pulled me in and didn't let go.
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05/29/2003 03:14:18 PM
Very nice photo. I'm not quite sure why you cropped it with just a fraction of the chin out because I find that a little bit distracting -- cropping it a little higher, for me, would have put the focus more on the eyes. But that's a very tiny quibble. 9
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05/29/2003 02:00:21 PM
One of my favourites this week. Good composition and the sepia tone is good, perhaps a little red as I see it. Focus and cropping is perfect. A black t-shirt and the disturbing shoulder would have disappeared. But that´s just a detail. Meets the challenge very well. Well done and good luck!
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05/28/2003 06:16:03 PM
Very good portrait. Intense, focused (in both senses). Very good indeed. 8 Jak
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05/28/2003 03:16:37 PM
Gripping detail. The way light glistens off eyebrows, eyelashes and beard bristles give the photo demension. Dimension really makes a duotone - so Isay perfect for this challenge! but one tiny little thing - wish that corner of shoulder (?) wasn't there. 9
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05/27/2003 08:00:43 PM
Nice image. Very well done and a good example of duotone. 8 Morgan
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05/27/2003 12:23:33 PM
Stern look - very serious. Excellent lighting and composition. Not sure about the tiny bit of white shirt that's poking up from behind.
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05/27/2003 12:01:59 PM
Poweful, like it!
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05/26/2003 10:11:45 PM
Wow. There is so much texture in this photo, with the skin, and wrinkles, and hair - its great.
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05/26/2003 08:22:11 PM
I don't really know what to say... This is the best I have seen in this challenge, simply outstanding. 10
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05/26/2003 06:44:38 PM
Outstanding detail, a wonderful close up. Very nicely done. A 10 without any question
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05/26/2003 04:51:35 PM
wo. Great detaill I like how you filled the frame. Good luck. Jacko.
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05/26/2003 01:34:25 PM
Excellent shot, for me this is the winning photo of the challenge - 10.
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05/26/2003 12:15:40 PM
Beautifully lit and perfect DOF. Did you try the same pose without his shoulder showing in the background? Or even just cropping this photo just enough to loose the shoulder? Might make a great shot even more powerful.
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05/26/2003 11:23:09 AM
Intense expression. Very well composed. Great lighting. This should do well, I hope!
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05/26/2003 11:19:54 AM
Wow! In the thumbnail I thought this was going to be a very plain portrait, but now, big, it's incredible. This guy's face is AWESOME! Really cool textures here, and his eyes are superb! Nicely lit, and the photo tells a story. I love the sepia, just a very well done photo, that hits you and keeps your attention. Solid 10!
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05/26/2003 01:44:44 AM
Well this is a great picture. The contrast between black and white is awsome. Every tone in the picture is interesting and high contrast, and the tone color is not overdone. Well done! 8.
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05/26/2003 12:41:42 AM
I really like this shot. A lot of sincerety here, and very well executed.
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05/26/2003 12:35:44 AM
Kinda like this...
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