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A bad day at the office
A bad day at the office
Doubledizzle


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: High Contrast II (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Location: Montreal
Date: Sep 27, 2006
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 50
Galleries: Self Portrait
Date Uploaded: Sep 27, 2006

 self portrait after a squash accident
I used a softbox on the left side.
post processing:
brightness and contrast
desaturation
resize

Statistics
Place: 256 out of 396
Avg (all users): 5.0361
Avg (commenters): 6.2500
Avg (participants): 5.0789
Avg (non-participants): 5.0000
Views since voting: 595
Views during voting: 216
Votes: 166
Comments: 5
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 10/16/2006 07:57:59 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club

What a great self-portrait. I don't know where our voters were on this one, but they missed a beauty.

I didn't vote in that Challenge, so just now I went through and looked at the submissions. And kept saying "but his was better than that one, and that one as well..."

I don't have any way to tell you how to 'improve' this image, because, frankly, I think you did a good job. Lighting suits the Challenge requirements, composition is just fine and the focussing, for a portrait is, in my opinion, spot on.

About all I can do with this Critique is to encourage to to keep up the good work. You have a unique way of looking at the world, and pretty soon I hope it will be recognized. Meanwhile, keep shooting.

SFAlice

Message edited by author 2006-10-17 13:46:33.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/10/2006 09:07:49 PM
great shot very emotive.
 10/08/2006 04:46:21 PM
Sure is a bad day when you get hit in the eye. Maybe it's a bad night on the town. Doesn't quite hold my attention somehow - perhaps the gentle feeling that it's posed. Something to give it a touch of reality would make it all the more gripping, but that ain't there ...
 10/07/2006 02:41:45 PM
Nice use of contrast to evoke a mood.
 10/04/2006 08:37:07 AM
Focus is a bit soft.


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