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Dayton
Dayton
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Challenge: Black and White Portrait II (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM
Location: Ledyard, CT
Date: Jan 8, 2007
Aperture: f2.8
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Portraiture, Children
Date Uploaded: Jan 9, 2007

 My kids were not cooperating, but the neighbor's kid would stay still long enough for a few shots! I'm not really into portraits (meaning I'm not that good) and have taken very few. So, this challenge was truly challenging. I wish I had taken more time to compose this a little better. It's quite boring.

Taken outdoors just around twilight, so I took an exposure for ambient light, then added just a little fill with my flash.

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Place: 260 out of 491
Avg (all users): 5.1526
Avg (commenters): 4.4286
Avg (participants): 4.8561
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Views since voting: 912
Views during voting: 405
Votes: 308
Comments: 22
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/16/2007 12:45:15 PM
Great job, you can see the life in this portrait. Somehow I think he's probably a redhead. Nice job.
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 01/16/2007 01:47:59 AM
Nice capture of general youthful happiness. Looks like you hit just the right focal point as his eyes and mouth are well focused, the nose is just a bit soft. Good lighting and blurring out of the background. Overall, well done. Best of luck to you in the challenge.
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 01/15/2007 10:29:25 PM
I doesn't lik ethe post processing
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 01/15/2007 11:03:14 AM
Good DOF, good light and tone ...a strong effort
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 01/14/2007 07:57:31 AM
nice boy, good detail
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 01/14/2007 04:51:26 AM
The expression is great. However, there is something funky going on with this young man's hair on the top middle of this head. The sides are sharp and contain detail but midway up his forehead upward contains little detail and is blurred. It's a distracting element in an otherwise good photo.
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 01/13/2007 07:44:56 PM
? The hair ? What happened?
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 01/13/2007 04:12:49 AM
Too "full on". Nice eyes, but try a little angle.
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 01/12/2007 03:15:26 PM
A good portrait, but the eyes don't work.
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 01/12/2007 02:41:51 PM
The hair looks odd to me...
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 01/12/2007 08:38:21 AM
great portrait but seems a little over proccesed
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 01/12/2007 03:16:23 AM
I get the strong impression that the original picture is blurred and you tried to save it using PS. My impression may be wrong, but a photo that leaves that impression is not a good photo.
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 01/11/2007 07:12:14 AM
Right ear is blurry... What happened to the top of the hair?
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 01/11/2007 06:39:44 AM
this one seems almost too processed - the eyes don't seem real
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 01/11/2007 04:29:20 AM
something not quite right with that hair...
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 01/10/2007 07:59:22 PM
what happened to his hair?
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 01/10/2007 05:31:45 PM
not sure I like the effects on this, but it is a cute photo!
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 01/10/2007 09:25:50 AM
The eyes are to sharp while the hair is out of focus. Looks like you got carried away with the blur.
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 01/10/2007 09:20:52 AM
It's a timeless expression on the subject's face, but the lighting on the features makes this look slightly overexposed. I might try lightly burning the cheeks and chin regions to bring out those freckles, too.
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 01/10/2007 07:22:57 AM
What did you do to his hair? It looks very wrong - perhaps oversharpened?
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 01/10/2007 06:27:44 AM
Good pic. Very fun. Wish his hair on top was all in focus
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/09/2007 07:27:07 PM
this is a nice shot, but the flat lighting on the face takes away from it. having the light come from an angle, even a slight one, would help a lot.
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