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Windows to the soul
Windows to the soul
arpita


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: People II (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO Macro Super II for Canon
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Date: Apr 16, 2005
Galleries: Emotive, Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Apr 17, 2005

Many thanks to my lovely model Mansi for helping me take this picture.

Statistics
Place: 6 out of 251
Avg (all users): 6.8455
Avg (commenters): 7.5641
Avg (participants): 6.6452
Avg (non-participants): 7.0492
Views since voting: 5386
Views during voting: 462
Votes: 246
Comments: 59
Favorites: 5 (view)


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11/29/2005 02:14:57 PM
wow, those eyes!
05/16/2005 07:03:57 PM
Lovely photo.
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05/10/2005 03:01:24 PM
nice to see such good work from someone desi!
keep it up!
the eyes here r a real turn on!
04/28/2005 10:11:46 PM
This is an outstanding photograph. i love her eyes, they truly are the window to the soul
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04/26/2005 06:31:12 AM
beautiful congrats on the top 10 finish this is lovely
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04/25/2005 11:36:05 AM
Wow! Congrats Arpita.
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04/25/2005 11:06:51 AM
Congratulations on the top 10!
(Both to the photographer and the photgraphed)

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04/25/2005 10:53:58 AM
Thank you everyone for your comments on this image! This is a picture I had been wanting to make for a while. Thanks are due to a lot of people: my model Mansi whose eyes I have been wanting to photograph since I met her :); sgauria and manic for helpful post-processing comments, librodo whose excellent portraits are the reason i got interested in portrait photography, and many other people here, notably john setlzer, from whom I have learnt a lot of things, both post-processing and otherwise....

Message edited by author 2005-04-27 20:45:20.
04/25/2005 09:55:05 AM
I thought this is you! Nice colors...subtle yet forceful image.

Manny
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04/25/2005 09:01:14 AM
Congrats on making the top 10.
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04/25/2005 07:46:44 AM
I thought this one might do well ;o) Congrats on your top-10 finish!
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04/25/2005 04:38:48 AM
Very nicely done. Congratulations.
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04/25/2005 03:07:09 AM
Congratulations on your top 10 finish. The colors here are really lovely.
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04/25/2005 01:08:42 AM
Congrats ... the eye have it all.
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04/25/2005 12:56:53 AM
Those are some amazing eyes. Congrats on the 6th place with this great image. (We seem to have swapped places from the three challenge!).
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04/25/2005 12:52:22 AM
Amazing eyes! Congrats on 6th
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04/25/2005 12:15:03 AM
Arpita: you have outdone yourself here with this portayal. Congratulations on your 6th finish.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/24/2005 10:54:53 PM
love that her scarf matches her eyes. beautiful
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04/24/2005 10:40:23 PM
Very captivating photo. Love the color and detail
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04/24/2005 10:36:16 PM
What wonderful eyes! Beautiful capture and should do very well.
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04/24/2005 04:02:25 PM
A powerful photo and how true the title is, especially in these eyes. I really like how the blue turned out in the eyes and how sharp they are.
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04/24/2005 03:56:02 PM
brilliant, like it...
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04/24/2005 12:49:08 PM
yes - great eyes ..
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04/24/2005 12:09:36 PM
crisp and exiting image
will do very well
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04/24/2005 10:23:26 AM
Beautiful! But he fake contacts are too much. Kinda freaky!
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04/24/2005 09:36:34 AM
The eyes are just beautiful. This should ribbon for sure.
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04/24/2005 09:15:17 AM
Yes, they are. Great eyes and a great idea. The blue scarf works very well. 9
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04/24/2005 07:26:50 AM
Title tells me this is a eye shot (as I wait for the image to load) - yep. Great detail!
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04/24/2005 05:57:50 AM
great job on the eyes
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04/24/2005 04:53:55 AM
Very striking eyes, and so clear too. For me, it would of been nice if there was no white showing in the pupils.
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04/24/2005 04:25:12 AM
Beautiful Picture
The eyes are so alive.
Well captured
good luck
10
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04/24/2005 02:38:26 AM
Those eyes... Whites are a little blown out along the left.
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04/24/2005 02:24:39 AM
Beautiful eyes!!!
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04/24/2005 02:01:34 AM
Perfect focus on her eyes. 8
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04/24/2005 01:35:17 AM
nice eyes, great colors.. a tighter crop would have removed the ditracting too bright left side.
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04/23/2005 02:04:38 PM
Nice shot. Have the eyes been processed? 7
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04/22/2005 07:00:29 PM
cool
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04/22/2005 01:25:00 PM
Beautiful!
Improvement suggestions: image is too hot on the left side. I would not crop it though as the composition is perfect as it stands right now. Perhaps a slight curve adjustment would have helped.
Eyes - there is a light reflection in the retinas - something you could have tried to ameliorate by cloning or burning...
Still think that this will end up in top 10%.
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04/21/2005 04:33:56 PM
Love this. The composition is perfect, pulling the eye of the viewer to the eyes of the lady. And what wonderful eyes they are. Beautiful!
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04/21/2005 02:44:24 AM
eyes are too bright not enoufh dept and pupals are too sharp instead keep some grey in eyes and up saturate the color
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04/21/2005 12:30:05 AM
Eyes, scarf, excellent. Eyes -- incredible. The white space on the left I'm not liking so much. I would have preferred it cropped more on the left with possible white space on the right -- the direction she is looking, sort of.
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04/20/2005 06:51:52 PM
One of my top 3. 10 from me. The only thing that I don't like is the different color border. But that is me and I am not taking away for that. Beautiful shot keep up the good work.
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04/20/2005 01:58:36 PM
I've seen about four of these. Decent shot though.
04/20/2005 08:53:33 AM
Beautiful... i like how the scarf goes together with background.
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04/19/2005 06:40:06 PM
awesome image what lovely eyes top pick from me 9
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04/19/2005 04:19:27 PM
pretty colors but the eyes (contacts?) look a bit fake
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04/19/2005 02:33:41 AM
Great eyes. The blue material helps bring out the color well.
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04/18/2005 11:49:53 PM
Beautifull, emotive and captivating one. Have my 10
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04/18/2005 10:17:06 PM
Beautiful......simply superb!!!
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04/18/2005 07:43:27 PM
beautiful eyes! the only drawback in my view is the trace of fingers in lower right corner - either show more oof the hand or noting at all.
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04/18/2005 07:11:06 PM
Beautiful.
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04/18/2005 03:51:24 PM
How did you do those eyes? Great job.
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04/18/2005 02:13:24 PM
it's a nice setup, but the eyes look fake... are they contacts?
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04/18/2005 09:00:13 AM
this concept has been overdone... but it's still pretty nice
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04/18/2005 08:08:40 AM
The flare on the left spoils this image somewhat and the eyes although beautiful donĀ“t look natural somehow, imo ofcourse...
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04/18/2005 03:40:47 AM
Great Capture. Great Eyes
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04/18/2005 01:56:22 AM
Beautiful!!!....10
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04/18/2005 01:17:41 AM
Great focus on the eyes and matching with the scarf
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04/18/2005 12:22:11 AM
Those eyes are absolutely hypnotic. Great lighting and just love this photo in general. Reminds me (as does another in this challenge) of a very famous National Geographic photo of the Afgan woman.
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