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Challenge: Color Portrait (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.0 USM
Location: Reading, UK
Date: Sep 11, 2005
Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/160
Galleries: Emotive, Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Sep 11, 2005

A little dodging & burning, cloning, sharpening, and curves.

I spent the past week in France and Italy and took hundreds of pictures of awesome scenery and architecture, only to find out later that the challenge during that time was "Color Portrait". Blaah. But I wanted to submit something, so I did this one at the last minute. It actually captures pretty well how I felt when I found out the challenge topic.

Statistics
Place: 76 out of 284
Avg (all users): 5.8137
Avg (commenters): 6.7000
Avg (participants): 5.6667
Avg (non-participants): 5.9444
Views since voting: 1265
Views during voting: 447
Votes: 306
Comments: 24
Favorites: 1 (view)


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09/19/2005 07:39:23 AM
grrr... poor guy.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/18/2005 07:48:47 PM
Outstanding character study. 8
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09/18/2005 07:21:55 PM
Nicely lit and composed. Good Luck!
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09/18/2005 06:07:42 PM
Nice lighting.............
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09/18/2005 11:26:06 AM
great lighting and shot.
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09/18/2005 08:02:14 AM
I like the lighting scheme, especially the catchlight in the eye on the left (right eye), although I might have tried to tone down the shininess on the face just a tiny bit.
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09/17/2005 06:50:36 AM
Original and well done.
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09/16/2005 07:28:48 PM
Good use of light to dark, but perhaps a little too dark on the left - or maybe it's just my monitor. Nice portrait.
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09/16/2005 01:47:36 AM
I love the shadows in your portrait.
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09/15/2005 01:14:48 PM
Nice lighting and great detail. Nice job!
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09/14/2005 09:47:10 PM
Verry good portrait!
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09/14/2005 07:17:29 PM
Nice shadows.
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09/14/2005 01:11:04 AM
The dramatic look is great, but I would have liked to have seen just a bit more of the left side of his face. It could be my monitor, but all I see there is a pin point of light from his eye and it is distracting instead of adding value.
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09/13/2005 06:43:34 PM
I like it. Good lighting and shadows, the hairline color border adds a nice touch as well.
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09/13/2005 05:01:03 PM
Great color, and great expression <7>
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09/13/2005 06:52:56 AM
I like the expression and you even have some Rembrandt Light!
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09/13/2005 12:32:23 AM
exposure and tonal range are good. shadows are a bit too dark on the right of his face. the use of a reflecting card or the like (e.g., big piece of white cardboard, a white cloth) held outside the frame can work wonders in shadow reduction.
09/12/2005 07:16:51 PM
i like this, i think the shadow is a cool effect, and a good looking model is always a plus ;-) 8
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09/12/2005 05:39:07 PM
Too much red tones......the whole photo has a pinkish cast to it. Awesome intensity in the eyes.
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09/12/2005 12:33:45 PM
would have been even better without the shadow
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09/12/2005 12:20:24 PM
Really good pose and lighting. Eyes are overdone though. Like the border too.
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09/12/2005 06:30:00 AM
I love the ligthing effect of this on just 1/2 of the face. Very artistic and well done.
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09/12/2005 05:54:47 AM
great lighting effect.
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09/12/2005 05:36:51 AM
crisp...great use of light
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