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Challenge: Free Study 2007-02 (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Nikon D50
Lens: Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D
Location: oslo
Date: Feb 5, 2007
Aperture: f3.5
ISO: 1/160
Shutter: 200
Galleries: Emotive, Self Portrait
Date Uploaded: Feb 28, 2007

raw: exposure compensation
channel mixer for b&w
b&w adjustments: levels, curves, contrast
combined the b&w version and the color version via "luminocity"
spot editing: removed a hair from the face
dodge/burn on the clothes
crosshatch filter
surface blur filter
lots of layers and combinations of surface blur, crosshatch, gradients and color adjustments

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thank you so much for your fantastic comments! I am really glad that you liked it, it is much more important than any score.

Statistics
Place: 151 out of 624
Avg (all users): 6.0690
Avg (commenters): 8.1538
Avg (participants): 6.0809
Avg (non-participants): 6.0263
Views since voting: 1354
Views during voting: 272
Votes: 174
Comments: 22
Favorites: 4 (view)


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03/10/2007 11:16:34 AM
This picture breaks my heart. Come out of the corner, Svetlana, the world is waiting for you with open arms.
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03/10/2007 05:18:37 AM
Svetlana.....I am so humbled by your amazingly elegant and inspiring talent. It's a privilege to see you grow and get better with each day and photograph.
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03/09/2007 05:59:36 PM
I have to add that there is something very deep about this image that hurts me deeply ... I guess that means it is extremely moving and doing what you intended ... I just thought that I would come out and say that ... which I did not before ... because the feeling was so profound that I felt it should be mentioned ...
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03/09/2007 05:33:47 PM
Bob has it right, Svetlana. Your talent is just ... incredible.
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03/08/2007 08:28:03 AM
You got the shaft in this one. This shot is beautiful. The soft delicate colors are wonderful. Someday, you will be one of the top photographers in the WORLD.
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03/08/2007 08:26:55 AM
This one tells a story that is concurrently disturbing and very real. I didn't vote in this challenge, but would have given this top marks. I actually think this may be my favorite of your photos to date - you must have used your new light kit? Anyway, the composition with the ring is brilliant.
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03/08/2007 06:11:41 AM
i liked the softness in this alot, should have scored higher.
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03/08/2007 05:16:06 AM
... another WOW image WAY underscored!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/07/2007 10:14:18 PM
So soft, and so beautiful.....
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03/07/2007 07:35:41 PM
Elegant folds of cloth and pastel setting. The ring adds the necessary symbolism to suggest a story. 8.
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03/07/2007 06:02:28 AM
Somehow I find this a disturbing image. Good job on evoking an emotion.
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03/07/2007 03:55:35 AM
Nice PP - Almost a depressing feel to this.
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03/05/2007 08:32:05 PM
Another brilliant piece from you. I'm just going to wait for you to NOT get a ribbon in this challenge and then laugh at DPC (once again) for missing the brilliance that is right in front of their faces. I hope they prove me wrong. sorry that my stridency is keeping me from saying anything useful. It is difficult to talk about something that works so instantaneously. I am not going to point here to references. This is simply you. You use the haphazard folds of a backward shirt to convey a sense of not belonging, but at the same time to show the beauty of not belonging as well as the sadness, because the ill-fitting shirt drapes beautifully all around you. And then there is the perfect ivory skin tone, perfectly perfectly lit and captured. Like a painting, and yet more real, more physical, more three-dimensional than most photographs (the way some master paintings are). Brava. 10 doesn't begin to describe this.
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03/04/2007 06:14:42 PM
i dont quite enjoy this as much as i have your other work svetlana, technically it is very well done, but i am not getting the story you are trying to tell, is it a little girl troubled,maybe someone in mental institution? still i like it on some level /7
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03/04/2007 05:37:22 PM
love this! silverfoxx? 9
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03/02/2007 10:25:08 PM
Very moving 8
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03/02/2007 06:22:15 PM
She looks like she is trying to squeeze herself into that corner and hide from the world.
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03/02/2007 04:42:23 PM
The photo is more the 'good'. Nice work Svetlana...10
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03/02/2007 08:42:04 AM
I really like your tone in this picture. Not too much color and almost b/w! Great job
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03/01/2007 02:59:45 PM
I really like this. I can't explain why, but I find it very intriguing.
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03/01/2007 11:22:31 AM
love this! another great portrait. i love your choice of light colours, makes this more emotive.
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03/01/2007 02:36:29 AM
Simply amazing and awe inspiring. I wish I had your talent.
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