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Challenge: Balloons (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Nikon D40X
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II
Location: Logan, Utah USA
Date: Apr 18, 2010
Aperture: 22
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/50
Galleries: Black and White, Persuasive
Date Uploaded: Apr 18, 2010

 My son, Owen. Luckily, we had some interesting skies this morning.

PP: I selected the sky and applied NeatImage to it. Then converted to b/w using the channel mixer with reds and blues low and greens high.

I then selected the bottom of the photo and used the channel mixer to convert to b/w.

I resized for web.

Selected the sky and sharpened with a large pixel radius and small percentage to add contrast. Then I sharpened the left and right of Owen. I sharpened Owen then, but I had to fade it to about 30% because he was getting halos.

I then added the border.

Enjoy!

Statistics
Place: 14 out of 329
Avg (all users): 6.5850
Avg (commenters): 7.9167
Avg (participants): 6.5797
Avg (non-participants): 6.5968
Views since voting: 3115
Views during voting: 395
Votes: 200
Comments: 16
Favorites: 2 (view)

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AuthorThread
 04/28/2010 12:12:40 AM
David! This is Matt, I ran into you last year during the community art thing in Logan. Are you doing DPL? Nice to see you back. Let me know if you wanna go shooting.
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 04/26/2010 07:57:07 AM
Congrats on your placement - I knew this would do well!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/25/2010 11:40:35 PM
Don't get the title but like the perspective.
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 04/25/2010 10:40:55 PM
Dramatic... fits perfectly. Good one.
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 04/25/2010 01:59:17 AM
wonderful
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 04/22/2010 12:37:02 PM
Great shot. 10, one of my top 3 picks for the challenge.
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 04/21/2010 08:56:54 PM
Excellent image. The clouds are great.
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 04/20/2010 04:17:38 PM
great B&W- top 10
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 04/20/2010 02:36:13 PM
Great shot. One of my favorites in the challenge.
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 04/20/2010 02:10:18 PM
sorry! politics doesn't have anything in common in this. wonderful sky though. 7
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 04/20/2010 01:57:00 PM
Nice shot. I think it would have had more impact if the boy was faced the other way. Just my H. O. This is a really well processed B/W.
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 04/20/2010 12:15:50 AM
I like this shot,8
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 04/19/2010 06:34:41 PM
I like the centeredness and symmetry. 8
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 04/19/2010 03:09:15 PM
Great originality and imagination, very well done.
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 04/19/2010 10:17:41 AM
Love it!! The dramatic sky..the concept...the cute kid in a suit! Congrats!
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 04/19/2010 08:45:33 AM
I love black and whites with great tones.
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