I struggled with this week's theme. I couldn't come up with a two-person partnership in my surroundings that would make for an interesting photo, so I decided to think differently about it. I came up with several types of partners that weren't two people and decided on 'eyes'. I've been wanting to find the right occasion for a wide angle face closeup. I was voting on the Female Portrait challenge and LOVED this image luminous and was inspired by it (I don't know the artist yet but THANK YOU for the inspiration... I love your image!). Anyway, I'm guessing people won't go for my interpretation of 'Partners' but I'm happy with the image.
Post Processing:
Crop
Camera Raw - levels, fill light, contrast
Vignette
Multiple rounds of selective noise reduction and sharpening
Curves
Gaussian blur on all but face
Cloned out some stray hairs
Dodge and burn
B&W Conversion
Add border
Save for web
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chris,
Im so pleased and honoured that you even chose to interpret my work! its such a cool thing to see how others look at your work and say, "hey, i want to show that in my way!"
back to your photo, i love it. The eyes are perfect, they dont overpower the image, but are strong enough to make the statement.
sepia is awesome, its my second favorite tone to use besides black and white, they just bring so much more emotion to an image.
The softness you made the skin is so nice and cream-like, really nice.
all in all, extremely well done, people sometimes dont stretch their minds far enough in challenges and consider anything that isnt suggested in the title, "shoehorn"
I suppose this would have worked better in another challenge, but this really is a superb image. The eyes really jump out and grab your attention... which is of course perfect, with the subject being the eyes. Mesmerizing photo.
I'm not sure I can make the leap to consider eyes being partners - while they certainly work together, they also never see, touch or interact with one another. This is a nice capture and would've done well in the female portrait challenge.
The details stand out in this picture, but it should have been left in color. Something should have been done to make the eyes stand out more, such as leaving them in color.
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