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Photographer's Comments |
Challenge: Portrait in Landscape Orientation (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D
Location: Home Studio
Date: Oct 29, 2006
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/60 sec
Galleries: Black and White, Children
Date Uploaded: Oct 29, 2006
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Shot against a white background.
60W incandescent hotlight to models' right, slave strobe placed behind models as rimlight and fired using onboard flash firing TTL.
Shot RAW and converted w/ ACR
Temp : 4850
Tint : +4
Exposure : +1.15
Shadows : 0
Brightness : 29
Contrast : +58
Saturation : -30
Custom Curve
Post processing in PSCS2
Convert to B&W with Channel Mixer
Curves layer applied using exclusion blending mode
Levels layer applied with normal blending mode
Layer masks applied to both adjustment layers to reveal the faces
Slight dodging, burning and cloning for general clean up
Image Tritoned to adjust tonality and then reconverted to B&W with Lightness channel
Border added and resized using Bicubic Sharper
Overall slight Smart Sharpen
Localized sharpening of eyes
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| Disqualification Details |
| Cloning, dodging, burning, etc. to improve your photo or remove imperfections or minor distracting elements, etc. is acceptable. However, using any editing tools to duplicate, create, or move major elements of your photograph is not permitted. |
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11/07/2006 11:51:35 AM |
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11/05/2006 01:46:32 PM |
| Unreal looking but extremely striking. I'll be very interested to see how this does. Good luck. |
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11/02/2006 02:50:57 PM |
| I would like to see the original ... I'm not a fan of the processing used here ... why is there a white line/halo around them? |
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11/02/2006 06:51:19 AM |
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11/01/2006 01:59:47 PM |
| It looks too fake... Sorry. |
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11/01/2006 01:28:36 PM |
| I like the contrast, lighting and pose. However, I am not sure what the Landscape format gives you but dead space... |
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11/01/2006 09:28:44 AM |
| Something is making the photo look like cut and paste and two dimensional. I'm not really sure? |
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11/01/2006 02:19:15 AM |
| not usually an effect that I like but it works very well here |
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