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Challenge: Self Portrait IV (Advanced Editing IV*)
Collection: Challenges
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
Location: New Mexico
Date: May 15, 2006
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 400
Shutter: .4 sec
Galleries: Sports
Date Uploaded: May 16, 2006

 Me riding. Had a lot of out-takes, it was taken using self timer. It's probably going to get voted down because it doesn't appear to be a portrait (judging by the rediculous critera discussed on the forums regarding those), but I had fun and got some more experience shooting it.

Used a fairly long exposure to get the 'ghost' type of effect on the parts of me that were in front of the light sky. Getting my head and body in front of the tree was dumb luck, but it worked well.

Edited quite a bit - 'contrast masking', curves, 'film grain' on soft light blend with the light and dark layers from the contrast masking mode, adjusted opacity of the dark a little, used 'motion blur' on it and used a curves layer over it to fix colors and lightness a bit. Unsharp mask with large radius and small amount in Lighten and Darken blend modes, and regular sharpen. Fixed the colors with some curves, hue/sat and selective color, burned the bright house in the background a little.

Statistics
Place: 192 out of 236
Avg (all users): 5.2554
Avg (commenters): 5.6000
Avg (participants): 5.1333
Avg (non-participants): 5.3706
Views since voting: 692
Views during voting: 460
Votes: 278
Comments: 11
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/25/2006 12:06:24 PM
fascinating. I wonder how you did this in 10 seconds :P bumping up!
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 05/22/2006 04:30:27 AM
You know a guy is confident on his wheels when he runs his ride without brakes.

Photographically, this also kicks some serios tail... Or whips some tail...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/21/2006 07:13:30 PM
Good sense of movement and colors are good.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/21/2006 04:37:31 AM
Good action but your arm and sky are exposed the same so you lose parts and a simpler background would help
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/20/2006 02:20:47 PM
cool capture
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/20/2006 07:40:25 AM
Are your right arm and right hip transparent?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/19/2006 06:54:24 PM
Hehe, I love the creative take on the challenge!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/19/2006 06:09:08 AM
Looks dangerous :-) Nice shot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/19/2006 05:45:18 AM
Heu ???
Ghost Right Arm ?

Nice composition, a bit over exposed (or saturate). Great! 6
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/18/2006 11:57:29 PM
You've lost your arm and the sun has bled into your leg and body...Other than that it's a cool shot (and a cool trick)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/18/2006 09:17:20 PM
This must've been hard to shoot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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