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Anastasia
Anastasia
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Challenge: December Free Study (Advanced Editing I*)
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Location: Winston-Salem, NC
Date: Dec 30, 2003
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/3 sec
Galleries: Portraiture, Studio
Date Uploaded: Dec 31, 2003

 I was going for the old fashion painted photo look with this picture. I didn't think it would do as well as it did considering the anti-editing crowd here.

It was not done using Neat Image as everyone thought, but freehand in PS.

Statistics
Place: 44 out of 193
Avg (all users): 6.2019
Avg (commenters): 6.3158
Avg (participants): 6.0709
Avg (non-participants): 6.4074
Views since voting: 1531
Votes: 208
Comments: 41
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/14/2004 05:59:19 PM
This shot is wonderful but her face looks somehow artificial. I think something you did in post-processing is a bit overdone for my tastes.
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 01/13/2004 10:24:09 AM
While you have obviously put your best effort into this picture I think there is room for improvement. But first the good things :). Your (attractive) model has a great expression and the way her skin looks is pretty glamorous. I also love her casual hairstyle.

Now the bad things: the background is too light for my taste; it distracts my attention from the model. It also makes the face looks too dark. Besides this you should have used a tighter crop; there is too much space between the head and the top of the photo. Overall an average photo (5).
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 01/13/2004 06:53:53 AM
Beautiful portrait. Professional studio looking. The woman's face, though, appears too plastic and not natural. I'm wondering if you used a noise reducing filter to get these results. This has that "retouched" look which may, or may not, be desireable.
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 01/12/2004 09:29:43 AM
Nice shot. While I like neatimage's effects on skin, this comes across as perhaps too much. Also, I think this might have been better if cropped closer at the top.
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 01/11/2004 10:46:49 PM
Lovely softness, great lighting, beautiful model. 9
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 01/11/2004 10:41:06 AM
Too much neatimage, i prefer natural skil
(but it's just me )
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 01/10/2004 08:22:32 AM
Very lovely.
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 01/09/2004 12:43:22 PM
great shot.
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 01/09/2004 07:47:21 AM
How did you get the skin tones so smooth? Almost looks photoshoped
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 01/08/2004 03:38:38 PM
Woa.... this has neat image written all over it. If you didn\'t neat this until it crashed your PC, I wanna know how you did this? Seriously! Shoot me a note.

Awesome potrait. Great subject. I really like the hair halfway over the right eye. She almost looks a little dirty, but she really isn't?????

I wanna see this shot with a different background, but with the white, it still marks really high. I think a diff background color other then that shirt color would work better.
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 01/08/2004 12:17:26 PM
Not to keen on the plastic face look. Neatimage?
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 01/08/2004 10:08:25 AM
Here face is too perfectly smooth, not real natural looking to me. Kind of cake make-up look. Everything else is nice.
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 01/07/2004 12:47:17 PM
Pretty. The face/skintones look overly re-touched. My imagination?
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 01/07/2004 02:31:05 AM
Of it's type this is well done - but you've taken the skin smoothing trick so far it's reminiscent of the worst kind of over-processed glamour photography, and effectively taken all the humanity out of your subject. It's also left a peculiar shading around the inside of the left eye. Just too much of the selective blurring, really. Lighting is good, catch-light in the eyes is good, naturalness of the model is good.
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 01/06/2004 06:37:58 PM
I'm guessing you ran this through Neat Image or something. The face looks just a bit too unnatural. Other than that, this would be a great photo.
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 01/06/2004 06:58:11 AM
While I do like the pose, the color and sharpness, I do have problems with the too soft skin: looks a little unnatural to me.
Otherwise a great portrait.
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 01/06/2004 06:44:25 AM
way too much skin softening here, done well but if used 2nd layer I would put at 30-40% opacity. Also more care on the hair when deleting softening look.
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 01/05/2004 09:54:48 AM
Cute girl! Good shot!
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 01/03/2004 09:11:04 PM
Whoa! Way too much post processing. Kinda over did the neat image. So much so that it does not even look real. I think it spoiled an otherwise good picture. I like the look on the face with the slight Mona Lisa grin. 6
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 01/03/2004 07:20:29 PM
The pose and lighting are very nice and first impressions are very good. However, looking a bit longer, it looks like the skin has been touched up so much it looks like wax. There is absolutely no texture to the skin.
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 01/03/2004 09:50:17 AM
A very nice portrait, but I think you ran it through NEatIMage. I find the softening of the skin has been overdone. Her skin does not look real anymore. Also the crop could be a little tighter at the top. Too much empty space, and for no real reason.
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 01/03/2004 09:38:36 AM
Wonderful portrait .Real feeling conveyed
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 01/02/2004 06:47:46 PM
Lovely. Excellent soft lighting and texture.
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 01/02/2004 12:57:34 PM
Might have cropped a little more of the top, but very smooth and shot though.
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 01/02/2004 11:15:12 AM
The softnes of the skin gives a retro look to the picture. very well done. Maybe a bit too much centered.
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 01/02/2004 10:03:32 AM
WOW! this is a beautiful portrait. This is stunning work.
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 01/02/2004 07:34:31 AM
Stunning portrait.
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 01/02/2004 06:41:26 AM
A bit unnaturally smooth skintone gradations, too plasticky/painted. I'd work on that. The technique I know is a bit too much to explain. :(
Pose and lighting are good, you could dodge the eyes a bit.

7
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 01/02/2004 06:00:39 AM
Nice lighting for the shot. The skin looks a bit unnatural to me as though there was some retouching done. The extra space at the top doesn't add to the photo - you may want to try a tighter crop. overall a good shot - it makes me want to know more about the person in it which is what a good portrait should do. = 7
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 01/01/2004 04:09:58 PM
Much to heavy on the neat image here, and if that was intentional I don't understand the statement. A nice potrait otherwise, well lit, a nice subject, well positioned everything. You have a definite talent as a potrait photographer, just tone down the neat image. WAY down.
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 01/01/2004 03:11:59 PM
Very, very pretty. The complextion is almost too good to be true. The "Breck girl" gets a high rating from me.
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 01/01/2004 02:21:53 PM
The only thing that bugs me is the nose. Maybe smooth out the line that is running down it. She is very pretty and the lighting and expression is great.
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 01/01/2004 10:01:28 AM
May have been perfect if you had removed the strands of hair across your subject's face. I suspect you worked hard to include those. :)

Nice job!
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 01/01/2004 07:52:52 AM
Maybe NeatImage a tad overdone but it produces a very effective portrait - would that skin really looked like that! I like it!!!
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 01/01/2004 07:29:33 AM
A little too much bluring.
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 01/01/2004 07:13:09 AM
There is much detail here, focus (note left eye), makeup and lighting (note shadow under nose and fill on left). The loose hair detracts from this otherwise technically good photograph
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 01/01/2004 06:45:47 AM
The skin is so smooth it almost doesn't look natural around her nose on the left side, otherwise a very nice shot. 7
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 01/01/2004 05:40:38 AM
Nice portrait, cute!
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 12/31/2003 10:14:23 PM
Great subject but the face looks a bit overly retouched.
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 12/31/2003 08:06:11 PM
On the girl's face doesn't look so natural. Maybe too much editng
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 12/31/2003 07:23:03 PM
nice pose... the skin looks a bit like plastic... very unnatural looking.
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