I know this is a bit of a 'shoehorn' entry and the title's a little awkward, but it's my first eligible member challenge so I decided to enter anyways. It's also my first attempt at dodge/burn so we'll see how this little 'experiment' works out for me :)
This was very difficult to process as my monitor can't be calibrated properly; eventhought the brightness/contrast is maxed, everything still shows up dark. I had to assume it looked ok, as I couldn't even see half of the picture properly on this monitor. Guess I'll see what everyone else sees when I get to work Monday morning and I have access to a decent monitor :)
PP:
Convert from RAW
Curves
Convert to greyscale via Channel Mixer
Dodge/Burn
USM
After challenge:
Ugh...can't believe how bad this came out. I undercompensated and it ended up being too dark. I'm surprised it did as well as it did, and it came out with a fav! I think I might re-edit this and add it to my portfolio.
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Very nice...perhaps just a touch more contrast on the fingers, and I also wish I could make out just a little bit more of the thumb on the left side, and a little bit of the face might be a bit nice as well, but then the angle probably wouldn't have shown all of the fingers on the other side!! :)
Great underexposed image. Lots of emotive qualities. I like the tones, the use of black & white. I like the feeling it is portraying. Its a simple image in composition but brings a good deal of interest to the viewer to delve into. I do wish that all the fingers were visible since they are referenced to as "ten" bars and this is the 10 challenge. Still disregarding the challenge title I think this is an excellent entry. 8
Nice idea and the execution came out well. I'd probably would have went with a less descriptive title say just "Bars", that way anybody that didn't get it may stick around longer trying to.
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