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My Little Girl
My Little Girl
Sweetlittlepixie


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Black and White Portrait II (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II
Location: St Helens, Merseyside, UK
Date: Jan 8, 2007
Aperture: F5.6
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/80
Galleries: Portraiture, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Jan 8, 2007

 My very first entry. I took this shot of my daughter in natural light at our home. I converted it from RAW, cropped and resized the image and fiddled about with the shadows/hightlights, brightness/contrast levels on Photoshop Elements. Discovered the difficulties of loss of clarity in the image because of resizing (don't know how I overcome that!). I hope it's not a complete disaster.

Statistics
Place: 126 out of 491
Avg (all users): 5.7509
Avg (commenters): 6.8750
Avg (participants): 5.6103
Avg (non-participants): 5.8726
Views since voting: 1341
Views during voting: 394
Votes: 293
Comments: 29
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 09/11/2007 01:34:17 AM
dont apologize, shes a pretty girl and a great shot, you deserved better
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 09/03/2007 08:37:09 PM
Very nice shot, I find that the sleve being out of focus is distracting.
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 09/03/2007 08:34:37 PM
Nice portrait, what a cute subject. nice job.
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 09/03/2007 11:41:25 AM
Beautiful portrait.
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 09/03/2007 06:02:18 AM
Excelent photo.
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 09/03/2007 02:17:34 AM
Beautiful portrait!! Great focus and DOF. Natural light makes for some nice portraits. Would like to see a bit wider tonal range in the whites being whiter. Great photograph!
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 09/02/2007 10:40:59 PM
Great shot.She has beautiful eyes that draw you right in to the picture.
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 09/02/2007 02:32:56 PM
And indeed she is sweet. Very nice portrait. You - and she - will treasure this one.
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 09/02/2007 01:06:05 PM
Soooo beautiful. Her expression is very thoughtful, serene.
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 09/02/2007 01:01:16 PM
Beautiful serene expression on her face.Lovely eyes. She is a beauty!
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 09/02/2007 11:09:42 AM
Love the eyes, very pretty!
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 09/02/2007 10:58:02 AM
Beautiful!!
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 09/02/2007 10:37:11 AM
very pretty eyes, good capture and it does well in B&W.
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 09/02/2007 08:04:29 AM
Great portrait, beautiful eyes and expression
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 09/02/2007 07:52:39 AM
Oh those sweet beautiful mournful eyes - WOW!
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 09/02/2007 07:26:48 AM
Beautiful photo, I like the expression.

Perhaps there could be more differences between the blacks and whites to make it look stronger.
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 09/02/2007 04:16:23 AM
What a sweet shot. I really hope you have this printed and framed...... it's very beautiful.
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 02/04/2007 01:08:48 AM
That's a very sweet shot - definitely one to keep for your own memories. :)

Try sharpening after resizing as well as before - the settings will be much lower than what you needed before resizing, though.
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 02/01/2007 06:35:20 PM
Couldn't help but notice that no one has answered your question in the photo notes.
Resizing a photo always seems to result in a loss of sharpness. I'm no expert, but I'm willing to believe it's due to the sampling process. For example, if you had a section of the image that was:
lots of white... 'white' 'white' 'black' 'black' ... and more black
and you resized your image to 1/4 it's original size, the new, smaller image might consist of something like:
lots of white... 'grey' ... lots of black
That sharp contrast that used to exist between the white and black is now gone.

So, the generally accepted practice on this site (and even allowed in the 'Minimalist' ruleset) is to apply a sharpen filter AFTER you resize the image.

Other than the slight lack of sharpness, this image is amazing! Awesome job on the lighting, composition, and greyscale conversion. Keep up the good work.
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 01/31/2007 02:54:45 AM
Coming back to this photo, I realize it should have placed much higher, I scored it a 7 and the only explanation for that is the dark part at the upper left of the image. The natural light is also my absolute favorite for any portrait and this soft glow is beautiful...
Great first entry into the challenges, all good wishes to you.
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 01/17/2007 12:47:03 AM
126th place for this image is just NUTS.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/16/2007 03:40:55 PM
she's lovely .. great photograph .. love her expression .. =8
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 01/15/2007 08:21:30 PM
Nicely composed and lit.
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 01/14/2007 11:55:32 PM
Beautiful! 9
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 01/13/2007 11:26:20 PM
Magical ... 9
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 01/10/2007 06:53:55 PM
she's pretty
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 01/10/2007 06:21:58 PM
nicely done, great catch lights
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 01/10/2007 04:36:39 PM
how cute.
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 01/10/2007 03:31:28 AM
Nice image, simply done.
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