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"This ends NOW!"
"This ends NOW!"
Garry


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: The End or The Beginning (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-7D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Date: Oct 9, 2013
Aperture: 8.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/200
Date Uploaded: Oct 10, 2013

 Yes, another gritty self-portrait. I seem to have a face that only B&W likes. And lots of shadow too :) Anyway, this was originally supposed to be an entry for Classic Books based on a a book called "Butcher's Crossing" by John Williams and was going to be titled The Butcher. I decided it wasn't recognizable enough a book, so shoehorned it into this challenge, and surprisingly it did well.

Lighting
Was quite simple, just a single soft flash shot through a white umbrella. Nothing more than that. Some of the light bouncing off a nearby wall probably provided some fill light too.

Processing:
- Dead easy processing
- Import into LR3
- Crop to size
- Global adjustments to Exposure and Fill
- Export to CS6
- Convert to B&W with SEP2
- Apply Wet Rocks preset
- Apply blue filter
- Global adjustments to Brightness, Contrast and Structure
- Selective adjustments to Structure and Contrast on knife and eyeball
- Send back to CS6
- Duplicate layer
- Edit in CEP4
- Apply Detail Extractor Preset
- Send back to CS6
- Blend SEP2 and CEP4 layers together (normal blend mode)
- Send back to LR3
- Some Dodge&Burn on existing highlighted/shadowed areas
- Apply Contrast to knife
- Spot remover
- Curves Adjustment
- Save for web

Hahaha..love the comment by tvsometime! Not much of a butcher's knife is it. Really not all that threatening unless you're a vegetable :)

Statistics
Place: 9 out of 82
Avg (all users): 6.4762
Avg (commenters): 8.0000
Avg (participants): 6.4375
Avg (non-participants): 6.5161
Views since voting: 650
Views during voting: 154
Votes: 63
Comments: 17
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 10/21/2013 12:28:55 AM
Congrats on the Top Ten Finish Garry.
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 10/19/2013 08:02:21 PM
Killer subject :-)
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 10/18/2013 12:56:12 AM
Great finish for a great image.
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 10/18/2013 12:16:58 AM
Man your TPL friends know you are sooo dangerous?
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 10/17/2013 08:23:19 PM
Great work Garry! Play to your strengths - and you're one mean lookin' sob.
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 10/17/2013 08:07:41 PM
Congrats bro your mug is TT worthy :)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/17/2013 07:37:45 PM
So full of menace! Well done. I've bumped this a couple of times and now it's in a ribbon spot. 10
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 10/17/2013 07:36:07 PM
Scary but I think it's the wrong knife for the job unless he's slicing tomatoes. Voted earlier.
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 10/17/2013 06:55:21 PM
Scary dude. Excellent shot.
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 10/17/2013 05:47:29 PM
Excellent
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 10/17/2013 01:21:53 PM
You look a bit scary with your hat off. Great photo!
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 10/16/2013 04:59:08 PM
No argument from me, scary dude! I hope this does really well for you, Garry. I really like the gritty processing. (No vote)
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 10/16/2013 10:58:13 AM
The lighting creates such great detail.
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 10/14/2013 06:10:44 AM
I'm an Aussie.
That's not a knife....!

(TPL2 Team Member - not voting)
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 10/13/2013 01:56:02 AM
Great image! I wonder how it would look with a much tighter crop.
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 10/11/2013 09:04:59 AM
What a scary but good looking guy. The processing works well with the shot.
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 10/10/2013 08:20:20 PM
Much better choice. I won't vote on this.
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