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Troubles
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Challenge: Female Portrait (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: My room
Date: May 25, 2008
Aperture: f/1.8
ISO: 1000
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Portraiture, Black and White
Date Uploaded: May 27, 2008

 Portrait of a friend. Just natural light and a silver reflector. Editing: converted from RAW, monochrome conversion in channel mixer, some smart sharpen, noise added, resize.

I've had real trouble choosing between two edits - a deliberately blurred noisier one and this sharper one that I know will score higher. Although part of me likes the other edit more, I just think the emotion of the portrait is just that little bit starker and more direct with this one, so I'm going to go with it.

Statistics
Place: 92 out of 176
Avg (all users): 5.2558
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 4.9706
Avg (non-participants): 5.3391
Views since voting: 866
Views during voting: 452
Votes: 301
Comments: 9
Favorites: 1 (view)

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AuthorThread
 07/25/2008 09:40:12 AM
This is so, so powerful and moving. For me personally, this is an image that I will remember much more than most of the other photos of studio-lit smiley girls in this challenge. Not that there's anything wrong with those photos, it's just that this one has so much more to it. Superb work.
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 06/03/2008 08:41:20 PM
What a disturbing and painful image. This shot really has a lot to say. I hope she's not as troubled as she appears in the image. Well done.
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 06/03/2008 08:24:13 PM
I think a sharper picture would not have conveyed the "troubles" of your model. You did an excellent job with the light, getting just enough fill on the far side of the face to give detail without losing the shaping of the shadows.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/02/2008 07:51:32 AM
With more contrast and sharpness, the effect would be better!!!
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 06/01/2008 02:56:11 PM
Great shot!
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 05/29/2008 07:04:22 PM
yes, very troubled. The low key really adds to this shot.
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 05/28/2008 05:07:51 PM
I like the composition very much. I think that the tones work as well, but maybe if they were a touch cleaner I might have upped it a couple.
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 05/28/2008 03:23:36 PM
Way to close to the subject for me...
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 05/28/2008 03:09:22 AM
I like the honesty of the image 7
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