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The Moment It Clicks
The Moment It Clicks
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Challenge: Famous Photograph (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
Location: Lee-on-solent, Hampshire, England
Date: Jun 13, 2010
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/320
Galleries: Abstract, Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Jun 13, 2010

 Based on the famous front cover of Joe McNally's book "The Moment It Clicks".

Went to the seaside one stormy evening, set white balance on camera to tungsten to make the background blue and stopped down two or three stops from the incident light meter reading in order to deepen the blue.

Had Mum sat to camera left holding a handbag makeup mirror. Her face was lit by off camera flash with medium grid and a cut and a half of CTO (orange).

The weather was biting cold wind and Mum complained all the way through so the details are not as precise as I would have liked.

Whilst the mouth is sharp, the eye looks a little soft but I didn't notice till I got home in the warm. In retrospect and smaller aperture would have been safer.

Post processing included cropping, slight rotate to level the horizon, burn to calm the highlights on the hand, cloning on a small shadow in the lower part of the face cast by a finger tip and cloning to calm down some frown lines.

In retrospect it might have been better to have had a third person as "the hand" holding the mirror.

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/20/2010 11:44:45 PM
I think it is too centered... I dont know the original picture, but you could put the subject on one of the golden points on your recreation. Anyway, thats a nice picture.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/20/2010 11:14:11 PM
I prefer yours, actually. Better composition, though it might be helped with some color correction.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/20/2010 11:02:42 PM
I think the use of the broken mirror in the original is a metaphor for how the model really feels. The use of an unbroken one in yours minimizes the impact of the image in a way. I do like your dark background and expression in the mirror though. 6
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/16/2010 07:21:41 PM
Color balance looks really red here - maybe its in the original?
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 06/14/2010 08:07:44 PM
Light is wrong color is bad and mirror angle is wrong.


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