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Why The Long Face?
Why The Long Face?
jimness


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Challenge: For Sale (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 EX DC for Canon
Location: Covent Garden, London
Date: Dec 12, 2006
Aperture: 3.2
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/100
Galleries: Candid, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Dec 12, 2006

This is a joke / magic stall in Covent Garden, London. I guess the knife in his head hasn't helped his mood...

Shot in RAW, crop, levels, dodge & burn, channel mixer for monotone, curves, gradient map with blue shadows and brown highlights.

Statistics
Place: 41 out of 120
Avg (all users): 5.6098
Avg (commenters): 6.9231
Avg (participants): 5.2885
Avg (non-participants): 5.6887
Views since voting: 908
Views during voting: 414
Votes: 264
Comments: 14
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12/25/2006 07:13:31 PM
Compostion - the composition in this photograph is just excellent and you really meet the requirement of the challenge. It is well balanced.

Technical & Set-Up – looking at this photograph. It looks as though this may be a candid shot. I am also assuming that the lighting was the natural light available in the store. I am however aren't sure why you may have converted to a black-and-white rather than leaving the original color image. In my opinion, I think you should've left the image in color. This would have given more of an appeal towards the right side of the image which has the jokes items at the same time, which links your title of the long face.

Post Processing - one of the hardest photographs to convert to black-and-white is an image that has a lot of noise by noise I mean, the amount of things that are occurring within the photograph. What I mean by this is the fact that there are a lot of things to look at in this photograph. I have also noticed that DPC tends to prefer images that are more crisp black-and-white.

My Bais – I would have tried a simple black and white and then burned areas away from the viewers focusing on the elements that would make this image stand out. This would be the guy with the long face and the gags or jokes portion. This would have made things direct towards what your focusing on. If you have any questions please feel free to email me.

Hiral Patel
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/19/2006 01:53:26 PM
great capture
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12/18/2006 05:01:27 AM
just love the editing and the look you've achieved here .... his expression is priceless ... and NOT FOR SALE!!! ... =8
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12/18/2006 04:16:48 AM
I'm curious how you did this. It almost looks plastic. Kinda neat. I'd rotate counter-clockwise a few degrees to clean up the lines a bit.
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12/17/2006 09:44:15 PM
lol
12/15/2006 04:22:01 PM
The title sold me on this one. hahaha! Nice sepia work as well.
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12/14/2006 04:50:50 PM
I don't know, the name strikes me as a slightly cruel comment. The tone of the photo appears dull with disturbing highlights popping up here and there. Sorry, doesn't make it for me.
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12/14/2006 08:47:03 AM
Very funny. I wondr if keeping it in color might not have helped with the mood of humor though?
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12/13/2006 09:29:22 PM
Very nice capture and nice treatment.
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12/13/2006 07:03:33 PM
Answer to your title -- looks like you caught him pocketing something.
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12/13/2006 11:56:52 AM
quite like it. the processing suits the shop I reckon!
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12/13/2006 07:20:48 AM
A little heavy on the NI maybe but a nice image none the less. Cool that he is selling gag stuff.
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12/13/2006 01:13:53 AM
Ah. Didn't understand why you'd choose that as the title until I saw "Jokes" in the upper right.
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12/13/2006 12:41:13 AM
Your title appears to mock your subject, who is beautiful- there's something of a betrayal in that.
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