Young Man by Photonurd

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Color Portrait II
Advanced Editing V

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Young Man

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Challenge: Color Portrait II (Advanced Editing V) Camera: Canon EOS-1D Lens: Tamron SP AF 17-35mm f/2.8-4 Di LD Aspherical IF for Canon Location: Studio Date: Mar 12, 2007 Aperture: f/22 ISO: 200 Shutter: 1/250 Galleries: Portraiture, Self Portrait Date Uploaded: Mar 12, 2007 Add photograph to your favorites Add photographer to your favorites	Lit with one studio strobe behind a shoot-through umbrella and one off camera 420EX for background light. Levels, some dodging and burning, gaussian blur to smooth out facial tones, shadows/highlights, saturation, healing, sharpen, esta bueno!

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yanko

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Carl Zeiss 50mm ZE f/1.4 Planar T for Canon

03/22/2007 11:30:41 PM

Your photo is pretty good. The lighting on the face and the composition especially.

I do have an issue with that back spotlight though. For me it's too bright and takes the focus away from the face. To fix that in post, I would simplify things by first converting to black and white that way the color is no longer a visual element that demands it's own attention. I'd also lower the highlights just a tad while deepening the shadows a little. I tried this in photoshop and it seems to work as my eyes are drawn to his a lot quicker. Basically what happens is the eyes are a bit darker and thus pop more pulling the focus away from the bright spot. Anyway, just a thought.