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Distracted
Distracted
MichaelC


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Self-Portrait III (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Nikon D70
Location: Mrs Macquarie's Chair (Sydney Harbour Lookout)
Date: Feb 11, 2005
Aperture: 1/30
ISO: 200
Shutter: f8
Galleries: Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Feb 11, 2005

 Shot in late afternoon with the light behind me. Normal settings just made me a sillouhette so I opened up the aperture and turned my flash to full power, which had the bonus effect of blowing out the background making it less distracting.

PS-CS: Motion blurr on the girl and desat me.
Levels, crop & USM.

The idea was for me to be distracted by someone walking past, but they would be blurred to the point of transparency. As this was my first attempt I tried many, many more 'til I achieved the effect but in the end this was the best one.

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Place: 148 out of 247
Avg (all users): 5.2780
Avg (commenters): 6.5000
Avg (participants): 5.1603
Avg (non-participants): 5.3949
Views since voting: 695
Views during voting: 468
Votes: 313
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/20/2005 07:06:34 PM
Hey, I would too. A fox passing always envirogates the circulation. Good desat. Bumping up.
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 02/19/2005 06:43:42 PM
great composition neat idea
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 02/19/2005 03:28:21 AM
This made me smile:) Nice shot.
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 02/18/2005 04:42:15 AM
What purpose does the selective desaturation serve here. It's overused recently. 7
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 02/14/2005 09:51:08 AM
looks like a lot of photoshop artifacts, and the girl looks artificially blurred instead of lens-blurred.
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