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Challenge: Construction (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Location: NYC
Date: Jun 7, 2005
Galleries: Humorous, Candid
Date Uploaded: Jun 7, 2005

 Well at least I, found it humorous that a rather large construction worker was eating a tiny salad for lunch. I would have liked to have gotten many more shots, because the salad (which could stand to look alot more like a salad) was tough to expose with his skin and I would have liked to have gotten a shot with the fork going to his mouth to help show off his girth, but someone felt the need to come over and chat me up about my lense. That's ok...I really do like people sometimes. Anyway, I didn't get many attempts without people sitting next to him. Being in the shade really hurt the pic as well. I want to use my clever title so I'm submitting anyway, even if nobody gets what's going on.

Photoshop saves another crappy pic. The original was very bland.
-cropped directly to 600 pixels wide, as i gave up on printing early on.
-slight level adjustment
-a bit more than slight curve adjustment
-color balance toward yellow
-saturation upped, then upped even more on green, yellow and blue channels
-auto contrast at this point brought up the contrast a bit more. i might have gone in and fiddle with it a bit more.
-sharpen edges
-border
-neat image result to a layer then 30% opacity, because i don't know how to tone down neat image in neat image.
-did a "what was i thinking?" and dropped the blue saturation 30%
...just in case that 1 person out there cares enough to want to know. Thank you person.

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/09/2005 01:49:56 PM
vey funny shot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/09/2005 01:18:14 PM
Love the humor. I like that you've made the man fill the frame.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/08/2005 07:19:16 PM
Awww. . .the personal touch! I love this. The hardhat sitting by his work boots is perfect. This is one of my favorites in the challenge. He looks a little like James Earl Jones :)
I just can't see any reason why it's not perfect, so here is one of my very few 10's :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/08/2005 06:02:06 PM
Great Composition, Good Color and Focus...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/08/2005 01:22:53 PM
more like take a break.
 06/08/2005 08:29:23 AM
i like a bit of humour in an image, it lifts the spirits. and a good picture
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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