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... as the flames rose, he stood transfixed by her steely gaze ...
... as the flames rose, he stood transfixed by her steely gaze ...
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Challenge: Color Portrait III (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Lens: Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)
Location: Berkeley, California, USA
Date: Nov 19, 2013
Aperture: 3.51
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Emotive, Digital Art
Date Uploaded: Nov 19, 2013

 It's not exactly a negative ... the lighting was worse than I thought and rather uninspiring, so I used a "distored" Curve to give it a metallic look -- I thought this made her look like a statue or robot. I was particularly intrigued by how, using color shifts only, the direction of her gaze changed (see below).

-Handheld, manual mode
-FL 170.4mm (35mm EQ)
-Cloned (color mode) to even out some highlights
-RGB and Blue Curves through graduated masks
-Noise-reduction with PictureCooler
-Resize
-SaveAs JPEG at 96% = 272KB

File: Nori_IMG_9051invNR5-DPC98

Natural color image:
Curve to make partial inversion:

Statistics
Place: 56 out of 58
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Avg (commenters): 3.5000
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Views during voting: 214
Votes: 100
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/30/2013 03:19:59 AM
Like the idea but not sure it's working here
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/28/2013 11:32:46 PM
Not sure I like the processing. It seems a nice enough portrait without it
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/26/2013 03:56:56 PM
Yikes!!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/26/2013 12:02:52 PM
Not the sort of PP I like at all, think you have spoiled a decent portrait here.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/26/2013 04:25:18 AM
I don't find the color shifting/negative effect to be appealing.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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