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Challenge: Color Portrait III (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Sony DSC-HX50V
Location: London
Date: Nov 20, 2013
Galleries: Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Nov 20, 2013

[Nov. 25th, 2013 01:59:41 PM]

Just to make it clear - I HATE IT!

[Nov. 25th, 2013 02:02:00 PM]

There is NOTHING wonderful about it! But there is only one way to avoid it :(

[Dec. 1st, 2013 05:39:33 PM]

It is a candid shot with my new Sony P&S in a cafe of the National Gallery. She was with her much younger copy, I guess her granddaughter. She looked very classy.

I could not zoom in hence the grainy appearance. I expected a score of 4.6 and no positive comments. DPC is getting weird ;)

Statistics
Place: 28 out of 58
Avg (all users): 5.7429
Avg (commenters): 7.8824
Avg (participants): 5.8611
Avg (non-participants): 5.6812
Views since voting: 565
Views during voting: 233
Votes: 105
Comments: 21
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 12/02/2013 09:05:14 AM
Originally posted by vawendy:
What a shame that you hate it!! I was thinking what beautiful things you've been coming up with, and that I like how your style has been changing up a bit. This is truly gorgeous.

ah -- someone pointed out that you probably meant you hated aging, not your photo. :)

Yes, that's right. It was my reaction to jagar's comment - aging is inevitable BUT NEVER wonderful. I hate it!

Thanks for your comment. That was just the second challenge after TPL2 and I had to enter something different. Plus I don't really do portraits so a remote candid is the best I could do ;)
 12/02/2013 04:48:27 AM
What a shame that you hate it!! I was thinking what beautiful things you've been coming up with, and that I like how your style has been changing up a bit. This is truly gorgeous.

ah -- someone pointed out that you probably meant you hated aging, not your photo. :)

(It's another migraine day, so I'm not thinking too clearly. :)

Message edited by author 2013-12-02 12:28:14.
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 12/01/2013 07:15:18 PM
I was one of your three 10's. Wonderful portrait.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/01/2013 06:30:19 PM
lovely
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 12/01/2013 04:44:18 PM
Lovely. I love the reds jacket and hat. The inability to see every detail made this shot for me.
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 12/01/2013 03:14:48 PM
love the treatment
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 12/01/2013 12:30:45 PM
Looks like a painting. Nice
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 12/01/2013 11:43:11 AM
ach 9
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 12/01/2013 08:03:18 AM
One of my top picks despite the fact that the thumbnail looks so good. Hahaha... maybe that didn't come out quite right, but I do like the treatment here and she's very classic looking. Ages well. Kudos.
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 11/30/2013 03:06:42 AM
Actually like this. Nice different thought to the challenge
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 11/29/2013 09:54:46 PM
nice artsy take on the subject
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 11/28/2013 03:49:18 AM
.....And a beautiful thing this is
Bump
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 11/26/2013 02:20:29 PM
interesting.
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 11/26/2013 11:49:20 AM
The softness of this portrait works well with the subject. Good luck
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 11/26/2013 07:48:16 AM
I usually hate blurry photos, but it is masterfully applied here to give me the sense of her aging.
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 11/25/2013 06:24:03 PM
Fabulous image.10
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 11/25/2013 05:28:15 PM
I love the blur and grain - captures the mood of aging perfectly.
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 11/25/2013 12:36:32 PM
I normally like portraits to be very sharp, but there is something about this that pulls me in.
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 11/25/2013 08:35:11 AM
Wonderful and inevitable.
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 11/25/2013 05:11:08 AM
Really wanted to score this higher, but felt the blurring effect was slightly overused. For myself, if that was dialed back a bit I could have easily given this a nine or a ten. Instead you get an eight.
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 11/24/2013 07:20:26 PM
This is Lovely, the PP and light, suggest the age, without the harshness of actually showing all the wrinkles .... This is how all my portraits (of me) should be handled!!
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