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Challenge: Portrait (Advanced Editing I)
Collection: challenges 2002-5
Camera: Olympus C-2100UZ
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Date: Mar 9, 2004
Aperture: F2.8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/6 sec
Galleries: Portraiture, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Mar 14, 2004

This effect was created using the whiteboard effect in camera. The only editing was resizing and unsharp mask.

Statistics
Place: 106 out of 135
Avg (all users): 4.7623
Avg (commenters): 6.3462
Avg (participants): 4.7549
Avg (non-participants): 4.7686
Views since voting: 1245
Votes: 223
Comments: 30
Favorites: 3 (view)


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01/27/2013 07:19:36 AM
Excellent capture of the essential nature of the subject in high-key style.
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05/18/2005 06:11:22 AM
Is it my imagination..... of lyk pa maar eg Suid Afrikaner? great pic, wish I could figure out how to do that on my canon or with photoshop. Another South African, Dr Martin Brink, perfected the same technique using film.
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05/17/2005 06:11:59 PM
I have always been attracted to this style of image. There is a touch of profundity to anything properly treated (not every image can be converted to this style) in this manner.
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03/26/2004 01:04:52 AM
awesome contrast I don't know the image but hey the contrast you artist freako with the camera thank you very much! I love the xerox look! Its the best portrait I have seen here yet!!!!!!!!!!!!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/21/2004 01:51:51 PM
I like the threshold effect. Something different that's not practiced much in the digital age. Works well with the light side, dark side lighting you used.
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03/20/2004 04:28:47 PM
I would have loved to see this image in a low key B&W rather than this threshhold treatment.
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03/19/2004 10:58:22 PM
without the editing this might have been a great portait.
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03/18/2004 02:06:52 AM
even though the photographic aspect of this one seems to have gone out the window, but it looks good. I would like to see a black and white of this instead.
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03/17/2004 03:34:30 PM
This will probably get marked down, but I really like it. Sketch techniques are pretty cool. Great, tight shot on the subject also.
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03/17/2004 11:18:30 AM
Nice shot and use of filters or lighting effects. - 7
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03/17/2004 09:09:48 AM
nicely done, great use of mono, better viewd from a distance, hang this one on your wall!
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03/17/2004 07:51:44 AM
I think this could have been a good portrait, but the post-processing or in-camera effect has turned this more into "digital art" than a photograph.
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03/16/2004 10:12:30 PM
IMHO This has been overprocessed and has gone from the domain of photography into the domain of digital art. Under the current rules, I can not give this a very high score...
TC
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03/16/2004 08:20:12 PM
awesome shot. this is a damn good use of extreme contrast.
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03/16/2004 02:33:25 PM
Wonderful portrait. Bit less contrast would have been my preference but effective use of technique.
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03/16/2004 09:34:40 AM
I like the picture, but it's a bit too contrasted for me
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03/16/2004 04:01:38 AM
Interesting ly done. It works.
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03/15/2004 07:49:42 PM
This looks more abstract The lighting seems a bit harsh
But I still like it and it is a bit different from the others
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03/15/2004 06:25:26 PM
this looks like it would have been a great portrait of your dad - I like the tight crop and his relaxed pose. I don't care for the posterization effect, however, as it obscures the details in his eyes.
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03/15/2004 04:01:24 PM
Unique but to me, it lacks detail. BOL
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03/15/2004 02:41:02 PM
interesting
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03/15/2004 02:27:04 PM
I really like the overal effect of this one. I like the high contrast.
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03/15/2004 01:23:36 PM
Too over processed for me.
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03/15/2004 07:01:08 AM
good b/w contrast i like it 8
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03/15/2004 05:13:45 AM
Very nice graphic look. Good composition too.
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03/15/2004 04:47:28 AM
Thank goodness..somebody else trying a similar techinique to the one I`ve submitted.
Hope yours is doing better !!!
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03/14/2004 11:38:54 PM
I like this, I am sure it captures the essence of your Dad.
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03/14/2004 08:02:28 PM
A little over the edge in the contrast for my tastes. I very much like the idea and the pose, but I would have liked the effect to a lesser degree.
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03/14/2004 07:33:42 PM
very nice work... u may want to consider cleaning out that small black spot in the upper left corner. = 9
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03/14/2004 07:32:46 PM
nice aggressive crop...I don't care for the effect that you used but I can't condemn the photo...it is all in all nicely done
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