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Piper
Piper
BrianR


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Color Portrait II (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Location: Home, Hervey Bay, Australia
Date: Mar 14, 2007
Aperture: 5.0
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/30
Galleries: Portraiture, Children
Date Uploaded: Mar 15, 2007

 Piper

This is Piper, who lives with her family across the road, I approached her mother about the shoot who said it would be great, bringing her over for the shoot, her mother Nell said she would like the natural hair out of place look, as this was Piper.

Made minor adjustments in raw-crop

PhotShop

NI
Skin action normal mode
Dodge
Brightness/contrast
Brush tool
Vignette
Final Sharpen
Border.

The skin action seems to have softened the image giving it a too soft look, and the commenters are right, thank you all for your input.

Statistics
Place: 258 out of 268
Avg (all users): 3.9738
Avg (commenters): 3.1818
Avg (participants): 3.9341
Avg (non-participants): 4.0100
Views since voting: 749
Views during voting: 274
Votes: 191
Comments: 16
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AuthorThread
 03/26/2007 04:04:35 AM
Good try Brian, and I like that you have listened and learned something re this image. Such a sweety is this young girl, and such a freash and natural young model, thats for sure.....
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 03/26/2007 12:56:16 AM
A delightful pose of a lovely young lady. I think with young children, the skin action may be overkill, because they already have perfectly smooth and beautiful skin to begin with. Have you tried processing it again without that action? It really is a nice shot to begin with.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/25/2007 07:41:47 PM
Too out of focus.
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 03/25/2007 03:34:44 PM
Just a tad too soft, feels out of focus to me. Great eyes, though.
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 03/25/2007 07:19:17 AM
Cute portrait. Focus could be sharper and cropping seems a bit tight.
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 03/25/2007 01:31:58 AM
Seems pretty out of focus to me.
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 03/23/2007 04:00:03 PM
not focused
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 03/20/2007 08:12:37 PM
cropped a little tight, and really soft in the focus - is that jpeg artifacting too? really cute model, love the catch lights in her eyes
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 03/20/2007 08:10:18 AM
Feels either very over-sharpened or out of focus, but if you could fix that I'd bet this photo wouldn't be all that bad! :)
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 03/19/2007 07:14:11 PM
It's a little soft. Try a faster shutter speed. Also, the highlights in her eyes are distracting. Get the light source up and away from the camera.

Good Luck.
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 03/19/2007 06:27:15 PM
cute picture, but the focus is a bit soft
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 03/19/2007 05:54:51 PM
focus is pretty soft here
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 03/19/2007 10:05:32 AM
Focus seems too soft. But she's a real cutie!
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 03/19/2007 10:02:52 AM
not very sharp
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 03/19/2007 05:49:49 AM
Either too soft or out of focus...
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 03/18/2007 09:35:42 PM
proper focus would have really helped this picture so how pretty the little girl is.
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