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Challenge: Painting with Light (Advanced Editing I)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Olympus D-490Z
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Jan 19, 2004
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/2 sec
Galleries: Family
Date Uploaded: Jan 20, 2004

Isaac's chin and nose illuminated by a spinning "Inspector Gadget" toy with a couple of tiny red LED's on the wheel.

Handheld shot, cropped and resized, very slight overall tone adjustment (curve).

Created a selection around the light swirls using the Magic Wand tool, and then a variety of curves and the tone/contrast adjustment to make the swrils visible but not so bright or grainy as to detract too much from the portrait itself.

Statistics
Place: 106 out of 120
Avg (all users): 4.3736
Avg (commenters): 5.8571
Avg (participants): 4.0897
Avg (non-participants): 4.5865
Views since voting: 1513
Votes: 182
Comments: 12
Favorites: 1 (view)


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02/11/2004 09:25:46 PM
Originally posted by leaf:

I like the tone and mood of this image. It makes me think and wonder. It is a very dark image, and i know it is meant to be... perhaps i would say it was well exposed, i guess you don't have a bright light source.. and it looks like on the boy's chin the red is almost blasting out,... so perhaps it is fine... I think the cropping of the image was done well.

Perhaps The picture is too contrasty. Perhaps somelight should be given to the entire image... and let it still be dark, but not SO dark. an image can be low key with good detail. This makes an image more interesting generally than an image that is too dark to see anything.

overall, good, just play with the lighting a bit more.

-from the critique club-

and remember, these are just my thoughts.

Thank you, and all the commenters. I knew the degree of darkness would be a problem for some people (even to see), but I really wanted it dark for a variety of reasons, including that a lot of people would recognize my model if I showed any more.

My light source was quite faint -- I'm actually surprised I got any kind of decent image out of my P+S camera. I "punched up" the swirly lights a little, but the rest is a pretty straight photo. I meant to post a photo of the set-up (with the lights on) but forgot -- I'll try and do that this weekend.

Message edited by author 2004-02-11 21:26:25.
02/11/2004 05:18:21 PM
Nicely done, Paul. Nice composition and balance. I like the way Isaac's face fades away, upwards. Colour looks good to me; I like the shades of red.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/06/2004 06:49:20 PM
I like the tone and mood of this image. It makes me think and wonder. It is a very dark image, and i know it is meant to be... perhaps i would say it was well exposed, i guess you don't have a bright light source.. and it looks like on the boy's chin the red is almost blasting out,... so perhaps it is fine... I think the cropping of the image was done well.

Perhaps The picture is too contrasty. Perhaps somelight should be given to the entire image... and let it still be dark, but not SO dark. an image can be low key with good detail. This makes an image more interesting generally than an image that is too dark to see anything.

overall, good, just play with the lighting a bit more.

-from the critique club-

and remember, these are just my thoughts.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/01/2004 06:36:02 PM
Fantastic. Definitely should be a first place winner. Very cute kid too!. Well done. 10
02/01/2004 12:46:12 AM
not sur about this photo
i can hardly see anything
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01/30/2004 08:40:27 AM
Eerie light effect and engaging compostion.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
01/28/2004 10:30:42 PM
Very interesting! Cool!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
01/28/2004 05:31:40 PM
You probably heard this one before, but I believe a little more light on the subject would help here.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
01/27/2004 03:49:12 PM
I love the simplicity of this photo...great shot....a ten
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01/26/2004 10:47:59 AM
very subtle - nicely done.
although might be too dark for some folks...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
01/26/2004 03:42:42 AM
Beautiful. Subtle, enigmatic, well composed low-key portrait.
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01/26/2004 12:23:33 AM
really too dark to judge
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