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Challenge: Self Portrait VII (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
Location: Hamble, Hampshire, England
Date: May 31, 2010
Aperture: f/9.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Military, Self Portrait
Date Uploaded: May 31, 2010

 Taken with me at the "driving seat" of a local WWII Anti-Aircraft Gun.

Taken at dusk with a boring grey sky so I selected a "tungsten" white balance and stopped down to give me a deep blue sky. I then used a speedlite at the far side of the gun gelled with double CTO (once to overcome the tungsten setting and once to warm my face) as my main light. I used another speedlite to camera right gelled with fire-red to put some heat into my shadows.

The shot is pretty well straight from camera apart from some minor cloning to remove a stray hair and some unsightly, distracting hits in my right eye from my red fill light.

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Place: 84 out of 131
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/08/2010 06:35:59 PM
Nice idea and well executed. Many people might not get the fact that you are holding a large weapon.
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 06/03/2010 04:36:51 PM
Very nice lighting in such a low-light scene! Good job!
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 06/03/2010 01:12:41 AM
creative!
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