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Challenge: Color Portrait II (Advanced Editing V)
Collection: Challenges
Camera: Nikon Coolpix 990
Location: Sonoma County, California
Date: Mar 18, 2007
Aperture: f 2.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/21
Galleries: Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Mar 18, 2007

Steve is a friend of mine. He calls himself "Flash."
I've always thought that his rugged features would be good for a portrait, and this image cropped from a snapshot gave me a beginning to express what I see in his face.

Crop, remove noise from background, Contrast enhancement, slight curve adjustment. Focus enhancement, blur resulting undesired effects, then resize for web, then a slight focus enhancement.

Statistics
Place: 102 out of 268
Avg (all users): 5.6701
Avg (commenters): 5.1250
Avg (participants): 5.5957
Avg (non-participants): 5.7400
Views since voting: 947
Views during voting: 277
Votes: 194
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/25/2007 07:56:49 AM
Beautiful... lots of good details... congrats...
03/25/2007 06:20:11 AM
I like the composition
03/22/2007 06:07:59 AM
the crop is unusual but I like it. It seems way oversharpened, however
  Photographer found comment helpful.
03/20/2007 12:05:05 PM
Neat composition! My only problem is that the saturation is a little too high. Other than that, this is not bad.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
03/19/2007 11:05:44 PM
Nice shot. I don't like the lighting though. Too dramatic for me. It just draws my focus to his ear and I think there's better stuff to focus on.

Good luck.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
03/19/2007 01:28:16 PM
Crisply clear, nicely captures a sense of personality.
Although not having the subject in the center is often touted as improving composition, there might be more impact here if his whole face was visible.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
03/19/2007 09:53:17 AM
I really like the composition - the framing, the proximity of the subject - but this image could be much improved by removing the noise. Also, might be better if his whole face were in focus, focus here seems to fall off on the left side.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
03/19/2007 12:54:40 AM
Acht du Lieber!!!!!


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