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Cookie Duster
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Challenge: Hair (Expert Editing*)
Camera: Nikon D50
Lens: Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Date: Apr 16, 2007
Aperture: f/22
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/60s
Galleries: Black and White, Self Portrait
Date Uploaded: Apr 17, 2007

Self-Portrait.

You've got to love the sharpness of the 50mm 1.8. Wow, Look at those pores.

Convert to B&W, Shadow adj., Cloning, bit of Burning, Crop, Resize, Save for Web.

Statistics
Place: 81 out of 170
Avg (all users): 5.6022
Avg (commenters): 6.3000
Avg (participants): 5.4000
Avg (non-participants): 5.6716
Views since voting: 828
Views during voting: 468
Votes: 274
Comments: 12
Favorites: 0


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04/30/2007 09:46:28 AM
Greetings from the Critique Club :)

I did not vote in this challenge but this is one of the images I would vote a 5.5 if it existed, wich means I think it´s above average but would probably most depend on how I thought it stacked up against the competition in the challenge.

Personally I think you made a good choice to have it b/w, I do think I would have liked it better with stronger contrast though, the whole shot just seems to "gray" for my taste. Lighting is not bad but could be better, seems a bit too harsh as it causes glare on the skin and also that harsh shadow from the nose, could you have used a bigger light source or perhaps put some powder on your skin to reduce that? That way you still would have had all that texture of the skin but more evenly lit.

I tend to not use my lenses at f16 or smaller as the image quality suffers a bit due to diffraction and while it´s hard to say from this web size version I think this shot would have been sharper taken at around f8-11.

I do like the framing/crop but I tried opening it in photoshop and rotated it 90 degrees counter clockwise and liked it a lot better that way, do like you are experimenting with different crops but this time I think normal would have been better. I also like the black backround, adds some mystery to the shot.

Kind regards from Iceland, Larus.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/24/2007 07:09:30 PM
sharp image
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04/23/2007 10:21:29 PM
Great lighting and composition, well done!
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04/23/2007 05:54:56 PM
nice macro
04/21/2007 05:20:55 PM
love the title... was there an internal debate between this and "cookie tickler"
04/19/2007 10:11:11 PM
The title on this strikes me wierd...there could be a couple different meanings, (sorry) Nice idea! Great detail. 7
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04/18/2007 01:18:08 PM
Wow. That you LeRoy??? Brush that off indeed! Certainly hairy but there's something disturbing about this.......
can't put my finger on it. Certainly unique!
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04/18/2007 12:25:57 PM
Great clarity and contrast.
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04/18/2007 11:07:51 AM
Definately causes me to look. Nice detail
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04/18/2007 01:51:44 AM
great black and white study...9
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04/18/2007 12:30:32 AM
Great detail
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04/18/2007 12:24:18 AM
His this hair or whisker...?


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