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Arrangement in Grey and Black: Cousin Itt's Mother
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Cousin Itt's Mother
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Portraits Without Children (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Jul 19, 2009
Aperture: 3.51
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/30
Galleries: Humorous, Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Jul 19, 2009

 The Cousin Itt character is based the Addams Family TV show I grew up with, and I thought the pose had a feeling similar to that in the famous Whistler's Mother, more formally titled Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother.

This is the back of my head with added glasses, shot in a mirror over my shoulder, using the flip/tilt LCD screen on the Canon to frame the shot while holding the camera upside-down and backwards.

-Noise-reduction with PictureCooler
-Isolate Red Channel to Grayscale
-Curve adjustment
-Duotone mode: Cool Gray 8 and Black
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 88*/1.3 dia/TH = 5
-Crop
-Create oval selection from center
-Invert selection and feather 32 pixels three times
-Apply Curve adjustment through selection
-Flatten image
-RGB mode
-Resize
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice)
-Sample image midtones to set background color
-Add 2-pixel light border
-Add black border
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 9/10 = 190KB

File: Itt_IMG_3217-dt4vDPC9.jpg
Resized original:

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AuthorThread
 07/27/2009 10:43:29 PM
I'm sorry, but you gave me the impression that your head was right-side up. I'm afraid I'm going to have to disqualify this.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/26/2009 01:42:27 PM
Makes me smile. Nice conversion, wish the bricks weren't showing though. But that's minor.
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 07/20/2009 09:05:59 PM
:)
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 07/20/2009 03:34:49 PM
Silly! Good for you! :-D
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