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Having My Heart In The Right Place
Having My Heart In The Right Place
Mr_Bond


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Heart (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Location: Home
Date: Feb 14, 2006
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/30
Galleries: Emotive, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Feb 14, 2006

 This was a spur of the moment idea. I didn't have the luxury to draw a heart on someone else's chest so I carefully drew it out on mine!

The next difficult part was focusing the camera and taking the shot. Had to manually focus the image and then set the timer on the camera so I could pose in time!

Editing was a pain! The colour shot was just not doing it for me so I decided to go B&W keeping the heart in its original colour. Gave it more meaning! Finally touched up removing (many) unwanted marks on my chest and added a border for effect!

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/21/2006 11:46:13 AM
Okay.
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 02/20/2006 11:56:28 AM
overall it's a little too dark.
would have been good with the red nice and bold.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/18/2006 11:16:07 AM
You have to work a bit whith this one. It is too dark IMO and the head should either be off or on.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/16/2006 09:53:19 AM
Looks a little dark. I think a little vignetting around the edges qwould bring more attention to the heart.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/15/2006 09:56:58 AM
some light on the heart would make it less flat
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/15/2006 07:04:52 AM
A litle too dark
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 02/15/2006 05:48:52 AM
nice use of selective desaturation here.a little dodging and burning would have helped to get more contrast, bacause this lacks.
i hope for your model that the heart was only painted with water colors and not a tattoo ;P
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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