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Lady Macbeth - "Out, out damn spot."
Lady Macbeth - "Out, out damn spot."
JunieMoon


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Challenge: Literary Adventure (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Sony DSC-H1
Location: In the Basement
Date: Mar 11, 2006
Aperture: f 2.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1 sec.
Galleries: Performance, Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Mar 11, 2006

 Used manual camera setting. Set white balance using camera sensor. Used two flashlights to the right, and used a 100 watt bulb in front, facing a mirror and covered with a white cloth to diffuse the light. Post processing included cropping and adjustment to brightness and contrast, changing skin tone to pale, and changing color balance to teal. Also used paintbrush to clone out a furnace cord which showed in the background. Dodged the hair to make it more noticable, and also dodged the details of the dress where the highlights fell. Extracted face and hands, then adjusted brightness and contrast again to make it lighter. Dodged the hands. Saved at 125 dpi then resized to fit challenge. Refocused and sharpened a bit more around the hands, the eyes and hair. Also blurred some of the details of the face to make a little less severe.

Statistics
Place: 74 out of 165
Avg (all users): 5.7306
Avg (commenters): 6.8667
Avg (participants): 5.6400
Avg (non-participants): 5.7881
Views since voting: 5555
Views during voting: 335
Votes: 193
Comments: 15
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/19/2006 11:48:33 PM
ladymonarda?
This is excellent. Very moody and dark.
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 03/19/2006 11:16:36 PM
Not to be confused with the almost as popluar: "Out vile jelly" from King Lear. (Bill had issues)
Nice shot.
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 03/18/2006 09:10:04 PM
Lighting on the skull is good but lighting on Lady Macbeth's face and hands is flat.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/18/2006 04:43:43 PM
lol like it!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/18/2006 12:03:53 AM
Love your idea and set-up, but it lacks some basic post processing. I just tried it with just a simple auto-curves and it made such a big difference !! Good luck, anyway!
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 03/16/2006 06:54:20 PM
Very emotive, nicely composed with excellent lighting. I love this!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/16/2006 12:54:45 AM
Great shot. I like this a lot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/15/2006 08:45:16 PM
Contrast looks a little too low. Nice setup. 8
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 03/15/2006 10:24:50 AM
Very powerful image. You managed to make this look so realistic. Good luck! This should do well.
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 03/14/2006 11:43:31 AM
man, i would have loved to see this with more contrast, the blacks are so muted and washed out that this image is all but lost, barely hanging on to a 7
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 03/14/2006 05:46:06 AM
scary!
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 03/13/2006 04:31:17 PM
great image
10
good luck

kev
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/13/2006 10:47:19 AM
Nice imagery. However I wouldn't have her look so psychotic. After all it was a slow process her going crazy and she was a noble woman. By the way what kind of skull is that? Like the choice for this challenge.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/13/2006 07:04:42 AM
Great interpretation - 10
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 03/13/2006 01:52:56 AM
The picture appears a little washed out.
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