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Challenge: Pet Portrait III (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Location: Living room
Date: Feb 23, 2008
Aperture: 3.5
ISO: 1000
Shutter: 1/197
Date Uploaded: Feb 24, 2008

 This is the very first photo worked on in CS3
Converted from RAW to TIFF after small shot setting changes.
Sent to Noise Ninja to help with noise from high ISO. Auto profiled.
CS3 adjustment layer- black and white, I played with red and yellow channels to get most of the effect you see here.
Burn tool on eyes.
Back to Noise Ninja for noise on white background.
CS3 slight crop, resize, save for the web using bicubic sharpen.

Thank you Karen for all of your advice.

I hope this gets me out of the 4’s
Alan

Statistics
Place: 255 out of 261
Avg (all users): 4.2500
Avg (commenters): 3.2857
Avg (participants): 4.2018
Avg (non-participants): 4.3085
Views since voting: 801
Views during voting: 431
Votes: 208
Comments: 21
Favorites: 0

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 03/06/2008 09:49:33 AM
Honestly, I thought I was looking at a flea or something from the thumbnail. Maybe my contrast is a wee bit too high. I do like the effect here. A wonderful technique.
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 03/03/2008 11:10:47 AM
Well, you got a 7 from me. I think it's fantastic in every sense.
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 03/03/2008 07:26:48 AM
I very much like what you're going for here, and on many levels it works quite well. On my work monitor, this is a bit hard to see, but on my home monitor it's quite lovely and the cat is well-defined. I suspect this is the kind of shot that is VERY monitor dependent and that will show up in voting. Gotta love that kind and loving without a camera soul that gave you a 1.... Someday they'll maybe try this and find out just how hard it is to do!
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 03/03/2008 03:42:31 AM
Wow, that's the last time I give you any advice - yikes. Sorry, Alan. I still like it though. :)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/02/2008 03:38:12 PM
Very regal... the white background doesn't do this kitty justice.
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 03/02/2008 12:44:07 PM
Uh-Oh, I thought I'd seen the brown already, but this is some stiff competition.
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 02/28/2008 04:36:37 PM
I can appreciate the white-on-white effect you were going for, and it have otherwise made a stunning picture, but your kitty is blown-out a little too much.
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 02/27/2008 08:50:06 PM
Way too underexposed, I could hardly tell there was a cat there.
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 02/27/2008 12:10:54 PM
The white on white is interesting. For my eyes it is difficult to see, but that not is really not a critism, I just can't seem to focus on what is there.
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 02/27/2008 04:55:40 AM
Awwww! I used to have a beloved cat that looked just like your royal highness. I love LOVE how you did the soft white on white. . . right up my alley. Good luck!
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 02/26/2008 01:21:17 PM
to much brightness!
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 02/26/2008 02:39:45 AM
Just a little too blended. It is hard to shoot white on white.
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 02/25/2008 02:11:51 PM
Way to white and bright.
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 02/25/2008 02:10:03 PM
It is too over white for my tastes
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 02/25/2008 09:46:14 AM
very interesting!! it would be neat to see how something like this would do in a light on white challenge!
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 02/25/2008 09:19:41 AM
High key technique seems a bit extreme.
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 02/25/2008 08:59:50 AM
i dont quite see it
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 02/25/2008 08:33:12 AM
white-out
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 02/25/2008 07:31:17 AM
Cool idea, but I think its a little to bright.
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 02/25/2008 07:24:57 AM
A bare essentials photo...very zen!
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 02/24/2008 09:03:34 PM
It took some looking bur I finally saw the white cat against the white background. Too overexposed or high key for me.
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