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Challenge: Love II (Basic Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM
Location: Logan, Utah USA
Date: Feb 17, 2007
Aperture: f 11
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Emotive, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Feb 20, 2007

 I remember as a young photographer purchasing lots of high contrast film and having such fun with it. I wanted to capture that same feeling in digital. This is from a wedding I shot.

I liked how their faces became one, though that may be too subtle. Too bad I couldn't clone out the small, dark aberrations by her nose.

PS: Used the channel mixer to get the high contrast look. Then I cropped tightly and resized to DPC size. I applied NeatImage twice at high power, then used Unsharp Mask at high pixel radius and low percentage to bring out the contrasts more. I think I used the Brightness/Contrast tool, too. I then added a gaussian blur and faded it to about 25%. Saved for web.

Statistics
Place: 61 out of 232
Avg (all users): 5.6498
Avg (commenters): 6.8571
Avg (participants): 5.1000
Avg (non-participants): 5.8599
Views since voting: 811
Views during voting: 320
Votes: 217
Comments: 9
Favorites: 1 (view)

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AuthorThread
 03/01/2007 01:10:16 PM
Nicely done and thanks for providing the workflow.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/01/2007 12:52:58 PM
This photo rocks!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/27/2007 04:48:05 AM
a captivating photo....I like it.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/25/2007 07:19:30 AM
I have heard the high key photos don't really do well but whatever. I REALLY like this alot. You can see just enough features to really grasp the connection between the two. Howeverm I don't think this needed so much processing and smoothing. You could have let it stay a bit more natural.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/24/2007 03:19:08 AM
beautiful high key shot and
i like the comp and mood in it.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/23/2007 06:57:42 PM
Great High Key Portrait!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/22/2007 08:38:32 PM
awesome! good work done.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/21/2007 04:06:40 AM
This picture could have been the right one... the only thing is that its to washed out...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/21/2007 03:34:24 AM
I love this technique!!
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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