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Challenge: Black and White Portrait II (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S3 Pro
Lens: Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 EX Aspherical DF for Nikon
Location: Goodrich, MI
Date: Jan 5, 2007
Aperture: f2.8
ISO: 160
Shutter: 1/15
Galleries: Portraiture, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Jan 6, 2007

This is a friend of mine, he asked me to take photos of him as the ones he has always look scarey. We worked for about a half hour and I managed to get the lighting to make him look not scarey at all.. and more like my senior high principal that every one was scared of :)

HyperUtility2 - sharpen, converted to jpeg
CS2 - changed to lab, auto levels on lightness level,
changed to RGB - autolevels on each red, green, blue
highlights shadow- 23% highlights 0% shadows
cloned hair on ear off, spot on shirt off.
hue/saturation- 0% saturation
curves, adjusted until it came out this way!

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01/17/2007 03:53:15 AM
From the Critique Club
I like the fact that he is in the middle of the picture, it suites him.
You used a rather big aperture so a little amount of the picture is in focus. It comes out nicely.
The background is distracting for me, it would had been better if it was straighter.
One can also see where you cloned out something next to the year.
The light is nice, no harsh shadows or blown out highlights.
But you are missing so many tones of black and white in it, it's mostly just grey. This is easily fixable with levels and curves in Photoshop.
I think you might also consider a little tighter cropping.
The pose is nice; he doesn̢۪t look scary at all to me.
Feel free to contact me through the PM system if you have any comments or questions about my critique.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/12/2007 04:03:19 PM
Nice warm shot. Could use a bit more cropping right and bottom IMO. - 7
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01/11/2007 06:27:07 PM
This has nice potential but there are no mid tones. Maybe a levels adjustment would give it more pop.
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01/10/2007 07:41:13 AM
This could be a nice portrait, but the man looks too uncontrasty against the very black background. Otherwise it's good.
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01/10/2007 05:24:14 AM
Sweet simple and well done.
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