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Ginger
Ginger
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Challenge: Natural Light Portrait (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM II
Location: Westminster VT
Date: Jul 17, 2007
Aperture: 3.15
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/15
Galleries: Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Jul 17, 2007

 My coworker Ginger - Thank you!

Then sharpened, used blemish fixer (spot removal), digital noise removal, skin smoothing, cloned out the window crank, adjusted the brightness down and the contrast up, cropped and resized.

This was a good exercise for me, I'm glad that it had advanced editing. I had to keep reminding myself that it was "natural lighting". I had a lot of fun with this one. There are a lot of entries and I don't expect I'll get more than a 4.9 or a 5.0 on this one (fingers crossed).

I'm learning so much about my photo program and what people think is a good picture. The comments are great and always helpful.

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Avg (commenters): 3.8571
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Votes: 225
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/23/2007 04:10:10 AM
Pretty harsh lighting. It doesn't do her justice.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/21/2007 11:21:09 AM
good contrast, but too bright on the left... you lose details..
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/20/2007 04:52:33 PM
The lighting seems a little to harsh.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/19/2007 08:09:48 AM
Very harsh lighting. Some of the pixels on the left side of the face and arm are completely blown. The same shot at a different time of day, or using a reflector and a much faster shuter speed would have probably done wonders.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/19/2007 07:19:59 AM
Too harsh lighting on the left side of the image...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/18/2007 08:27:29 AM
Very strong contrast. To my mind it's a bit distracting. Maybe pulling a shade on the window would have softened it a bit or a reflector on the "dark" side of your subject's face to even out the lighting a bit.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/17/2007 10:50:11 PM
I like this. I find this type of work to be refreshingly honest
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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