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The Lady in Black
The Lady in Black
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Challenge: Color on Color (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Sony DSC-S90
Location: My room, My house..
Date: Jul 25, 2006
Aperture: f/6.3
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1 sec
Galleries: Still Life, Studio
Date Uploaded: Jul 22, 2006

Auto levels
Auto colours
Magnetic lasso select
Unsharp mask on background
Photo filter
Sharpened again and again..
uploaded..
hated..
reshot.
Burnt stuff..
Still blah..

Arggggghhhh.. the blue colour gradient across the back ground.. I didn't have blue anywhere near it.. it was black.. I tell you.. black.. increaing noise does reduce it but more the noise the worse the pic gets so I have to compromise somewhere.

I know I should have photoshopped better but, really, I tried..I'm not good at this..I just couldn't improve the lighted portion of the background.

And please remind me again 'why' I should leave studio stuff to people who 'have' a studio.

-Thank you for going through my rant. I'm having a bad day.

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08/02/2006 05:46:43 AM
>>... the blue colour gradient across the back ground

This might be possible when your subject is lit by light bulb (yellow light) and the background is not lit by same light. This might confuse your camera to choose white balance for tungsten (did I spelled it right?) light and thus giving blue tinge to background.

Well, you seriously don't need to have studio for "studio shots". All you need is plain background (any wall or cloth will do) and creative lighting. All I use in my studio shots (and their are enough in my portfolio) is light from simple light bulb hanging on free cable (so that I can move it to position ogf my choice). Sometimes computer monitor can also serve as very creative and different background.

Anyway, this is good try. Black on black is a difficult situation. You also need to work on placement of your subject. Check out on rule-of-thirds.

Photoshop is great, but its not easy. Fiddle with Picasa before getting into local editing with photoshop. I still manage 90% (or even more) of my processing on Picasa.

Message edited by author 2006-08-02 05:47:48.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/01/2006 05:02:37 PM
Black was probably not the best color to choose. This is too dark for me.
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08/01/2006 03:55:13 PM
nice
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08/01/2006 03:19:46 AM
nice lightings.
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07/29/2006 07:10:56 AM
bit noisy in the background
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07/28/2006 02:13:53 AM
Another entry used Black on Black really effectively. This one without the title would be difficult to discern. 5
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07/27/2006 02:22:11 PM
A bit too dark for me
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07/27/2006 01:49:23 PM
i would've like to have more light on the subject. the darkness strains the eye
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07/27/2006 07:39:31 AM
Cute and artistic...decent photo for on the wall.
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07/27/2006 01:09:52 AM
Like the graininess where the white fades into black. Specular highlights on figurine are a little too bright on breast.
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07/26/2006 06:27:24 PM
Pretty and simple.
There seems to be a little bit of sensor dust but it doesn't really affect it.
I like this.
And the single source lightning is gorgeous.
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07/26/2006 09:46:52 AM
I usually hate photographs of sculpture, but this has a mystique, with the light you used. Nice use of negative space.
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07/26/2006 07:43:56 AM
fits better into the other challenge
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07/26/2006 12:42:26 AM
hmm, I think you may have submitted this into the wrong challenge
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