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Challenge: Body Parts II (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Challenges
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
Location: Harwich Port, MA
Date: Apr 6, 2008
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/40
Galleries: Self Portrait, High Dynamic Range (HDR)
Date Uploaded: Apr 6, 2008

Processed from RAW in Wukong Beta, exported to CS3, shadow/highlight, hue/sat, select BG and gaussian blur, resize, hi pass sharpening, border, save for web

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Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium":

...An aged man is but a paltry thing,
a tattered cloak upon a stick, unless
soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
for every tatter in its mortal dress...

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Statistics
Place: 85 out of 156
Avg (all users): 5.5000
Avg (commenters): 6.2500
Avg (participants): 5.3226
Avg (non-participants): 5.5797
Views since voting: 1622
Views during voting: 469
Votes: 200
Comments: 15
Favorites: 0


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05/09/2008 03:00:44 PM
Really great processing. I love the ghostly shadow that surrounds the entire hand. I think many did not see the beauty in this image. I disagree with the comment by Juli about the halo. I think that is part of why I like the image so much.
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04/14/2008 11:23:49 AM
I see a long life and one child ;) The halo is distracting for me. Often when I use a strong gausian blur on a background, I go around the outer edge of the subject with the clone tool.
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04/14/2008 02:30:55 AM
goodness gracious, this would keep a palm reader busy for hours! interesting how the perspective distorts the length of the fingers.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/13/2008 08:56:02 AM
It's so difficult to judge whether or not processing is overdone - for me you've gone a couple of steps too far. The haloing gives the game away and detracts from the strength of the image.
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04/11/2008 02:58:07 PM
I wasn't sure how I felt about this shot at first... is it real, or Memorex?
That is an incredible hand with a life time of messages in every crease. I have to go down as saying that it is a very powerful shot, great detail, well done 10
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04/10/2008 08:58:35 PM
DPC is going to need a collective bath after all of the dirty bdy parts that I have voted on this far. This is one of the better ones, but to be perfectly honest I am just tired of voting on dirty hands and that is why I can only give it a 6.
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04/09/2008 11:41:01 PM
Nice sharpness an a great hand but the over done PP distracts from the image for me
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04/08/2008 10:45:50 PM
More like; Fantastic 4
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04/08/2008 05:10:28 PM
fascinating, the only thing I don't like about this porcessing: you can't avoid the halo around the edges.
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04/07/2008 11:00:05 PM
I realize you are going for a certain look, but it just looks like way over-done processing to me.
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04/07/2008 10:01:24 PM
Amazing textures and lighting. Quite gritty, great shot.
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04/07/2008 06:49:57 PM
Wow, a fairly confronting look at aging. Although not a hugely appealing image, great job on accentuating all those lines. The editing though has left a strange fuzzy halo along all the edges.
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04/07/2008 04:28:53 PM
Wow... great detail.
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04/07/2008 01:27:07 PM
not a fan of the processing, sorry
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04/07/2008 12:36:40 PM
You have a great hand here to photograph, but I think you went too far with the processing. Looks like a bit overdone HDR.
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