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Me, Myself, and I
Me, Myself, and I
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Challenge: Color Studio Portrait II (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: living room indianapolis
Date: Apr 13, 2006
Aperture: f5.6
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/10
Galleries: Portraiture, Studio
Date Uploaded: Apr 13, 2006

 took the portrait, printed and framed, took the second one holding my framed portrait, again printed and framed. processed to B&W with the intitial one being color. printed and framed once more, to take this shot. applied levels, resize, sharpen, a bit of a sat adjust.

hope this one does better than the past ones.

Statistics
Place: 152 out of 199
Avg (all users): 5.1311
Avg (commenters): 6.3750
Avg (participants): 4.9224
Avg (non-participants): 5.2914
Views since voting: 774
Views during voting: 413
Votes: 267
Comments: 10
Favorites: 0

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 04/24/2006 04:33:18 PM
You know, I'm having a bit of trouble deciding why this was a 5.1. I think it's a decent shot. I gave it a 6. Perhaps two things jump out at me.

1) DPC does love a white background, but this is, if possible, too white. It almost overwhelms you. I don't think gray would have been better, but instead of having a 0.0.0 white, maybe a 15,15,15 white or something would have been better. I'm not sure.

2) The pose is a bit static. I think it's a neat idea pulled off well. Sure, it's been done before, but not enough that it has become cliche. I'm not a portrait artist, so I don't have a lot to help you with the pose, but I wonder if that was part of the problem.

3) I'm really puzzled by the 60 scores of 4. I really don't know. Sometimes you win, I guess and sometimes you lose. Keep it up though.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/21/2006 08:58:48 PM
Inventive. The white bg is a tad bright, an out of focus backdrop (like brick or desk setting) may have complimented this portrait.
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 04/21/2006 06:26:48 AM
Great idea; You know it might work well with photos from different ages as well.
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 04/19/2006 02:46:28 AM
I like the concept. Well done.
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 04/19/2006 01:34:50 AM
haha this is a great idea for a portrait
I would love to see you standing instead of sitting though
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 04/18/2006 03:51:46 AM
Clever idea...
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 04/18/2006 03:01:37 AM
Not raelly fond of the composition here, you cut off parts of both his hands but just barely, I think it´s ok to do that when you really take big parts off but this just looks accidental or that you didn´t have enough space to back off from him (yourself) Also the lighting isn´t really doing anything from me, I would suggest some way to light his face more and with softer lighting, doesn´t have to be complicated, just bounce a flash on a diffusing reflector a little bit from above.
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 04/17/2006 02:47:34 AM
Clever idea...just a little soft in the focus. great title
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 04/17/2006 01:59:10 AM
Clever idea
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 04/16/2006 11:10:54 PM
Nice concept. - 7 from me
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