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Challenge: Self Portrait V (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Pentax *ist DS
Lens: Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX Macro for Pentax
Location: Farmington, New Mexico
Date: Nov 4, 2006
Aperture: f/11
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/60 sec
Galleries: Portraiture, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Nov 4, 2006

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Statistics
Place: 4 out of 193
Avg (all users): 7.1514
Avg (commenters): 8.1316
Avg (participants): 7.0252
Avg (non-participants): 7.2424
Views since voting: 4071
Views during voting: 634
Votes: 284
Comments: 55
Favorites: 7 (view)

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 07/24/2013 03:46:10 PM
Clever and effective. Superb clarity.
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 10/22/2012 02:47:46 PM
wow
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 11/16/2006 10:24:53 AM
Great finish. One of the best of the challenge. Congrats.
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 11/16/2006 09:58:35 AM
This shot is awesome. Congrats:)
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 11/15/2006 03:32:49 PM
Excellent shot, congrats on the 4th place!
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 11/15/2006 02:03:32 AM
Man, you have gorgeous eyes!!! Love the texture and monocolour of the face. Might have been even better with a bit less of black space beside the face, just maybe a third off. But well done!
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 11/14/2006 02:18:56 PM
Great texture and idea for a self portrait. The grey mud really makes your eyes pop right off the screen, congrats on your 4th place finish!
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 11/12/2006 03:24:52 PM
What, no hair?? LOL - Great job, DD! Congrats on fourth!
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 11/12/2006 11:44:14 AM
So close! Congrats!
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 11/12/2006 03:10:52 AM
congrats on the 4th place!
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 11/12/2006 01:59:01 AM
Outstanding finish and so very cool in your approach and style. Well done!
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 11/12/2006 12:37:02 AM
A super coating to win the fancy of the voters. Congratulaions on your 4th place!
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 11/12/2006 12:30:48 AM
Kind of the inverse of "Blue man". eh? Powerful work, great finish!
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 11/12/2006 12:16:15 AM
congrats on 4th place!!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/11/2006 03:00:36 PM
Great shot. The color of your eyes are beautiful together with the grey mud on your face. Nice compo too.
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 11/11/2006 02:16:01 PM
I'm glad you left the eyeballs uncovered ;]
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 11/10/2006 09:21:13 PM
Texture, contrast, Nice comp. This photo has everything. Nice. 10
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 11/10/2006 09:11:43 PM
Excellent detail and light.
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 11/10/2006 08:42:01 AM
the texture of the mud looks great in your portrait. blue eye are cool. maybe I'd crop your shoulder off of the photo.
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 11/09/2006 03:34:08 AM
Very Creative.
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 11/08/2006 02:09:58 PM
I like the abstractness of this photo. The only thing I would have liked to be done different, would be more intenseness in the eyes....that is DEFINITELY just my opinion, but I think it would have added a little something more to the photo. Good job!
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 11/08/2006 12:37:50 PM
Wicked! Great eye color, catchlight and great contrast to show that lovely skin texture!
One complaint is that the light at the top of the head is brighter than at bottom. Would have liked to see that more even.

BUT, this is a great shot nonetheless. One of my favs so far.
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 11/07/2006 07:35:46 PM
Nice lighting. One of the few times selective coloring works. Maybe a bit too much dead space on the left?
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 11/07/2006 06:27:54 PM
I hope your camera is still clean!! I like the desaturation and the piercing blue on your eyes! Awesome job- 9
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 11/07/2006 11:02:24 AM
10 all the waayyyyyyyyy. The ribbons going to match your eyes! Congrats on a FANTASTIC image.
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 11/07/2006 11:01:58 AM
Ah, the old "Mud on the face with eyes in high contrast"... I still like it though!
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 11/07/2006 03:26:05 AM
Wow very creative! crisp, sharp image, great eyes, epic lighting and positioning, sharp shooting 9
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 11/06/2006 09:55:38 PM
Wow, that is just awesome. Fantastic contrast with the eyes and the mud caked face.
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 11/06/2006 07:57:36 PM
really diggin' the texture detail here.. your eyes are almost too blue for me I cant tell if the mud is grey or if you did the desat thing.. (thinking you did) either way.. I still love the texture... good score from me :)
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 11/06/2006 06:18:28 PM
Really intense. I love the eyes. Great use of ight and negative space. Clear and emotive. NOt at all expected.
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 11/06/2006 04:30:08 PM
Excellent, excellent shot. My only 10 of the challenge at the moment. Anyone who is willing to do this to themselves deserves a high vote! I would expect to see this at the top of the heap.
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 11/06/2006 03:19:21 PM
One of the favorites of the challenge! Excellent textures!
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 11/06/2006 01:16:11 AM
AWWW YEAHHH! love it
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 11/06/2006 12:38:58 AM
it's cement man.. 8
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 11/05/2006 11:48:42 PM
He, he, you're missing the tea bags on the eyes and you'd have the perfect mud bath :)
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 11/05/2006 11:12:26 PM
Almost like a concrete constitution! Great texture. Bump.
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 11/05/2006 07:07:56 PM
Intense! Love the contrast of the blue eyes with the grayness of the.. mud? Love it.
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 11/05/2006 03:23:20 PM
my, your skin must be so soft and smooth after that facial!
nice shot. Desat works well.
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 11/05/2006 03:12:10 PM
How do you guys think of this stuff?! I have to admit you really know how to make those blue eyes stand out! Very creative
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 11/05/2006 01:26:47 PM
All I have to offer....9
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 11/05/2006 01:04:03 PM
Wow! Cool!
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 11/05/2006 11:26:00 AM
Nice!!! Wish you'd taken a little bit off the top though..
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 11/05/2006 09:55:19 AM
Love the composition and the piercing blue eyes, very well done.
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 11/05/2006 09:38:02 AM
I just love everything about this shot
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 11/05/2006 08:43:41 AM
Dang, those are great eyes. Excellent presentation, perfect light. Really good application of the mud, too.
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 11/05/2006 08:32:26 AM
very cool. great texture and idea.
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 11/05/2006 06:46:57 AM
awesome...great selective desat...
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 11/05/2006 05:48:18 AM
Nice eyes.
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 11/05/2006 05:14:35 AM
whoa trippy
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 11/05/2006 04:47:06 AM
Face mask or photoshop? I think face mask, with some PS aid ... or did you get cement in your eyes? Great idea, lighting fits it, and ... are your eyes this blue? Small pupils tells me it is not a flash but fixed light.
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 11/05/2006 04:00:34 AM
winner.



have been through all the images now and this still deserves its ten, but now I am thinking you might have a bit of competition for that blue ribbon. defintely 2nd or 3rd though..
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 11/05/2006 02:47:23 AM
"Awesome".....Just Awesome..... I think this is another "ribbon" winner.....
This is only my second "10" that I have given this challange.....
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 11/05/2006 02:24:10 AM
I think I almost recognize you. You look like a celebrity but I can't remember his name. That sounded deep didn't it?
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 11/05/2006 12:49:47 AM
VERY cool looking! Those blue eyes: killers :) 9
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 11/05/2006 12:16:47 AM
Love it!! Great lighting. 10
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