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Jump #20
Jump #20
mikasi


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Challenge: Silhouettes (Advanced Editing I)
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Location: Winthrop Harbor Skate Park
Date: Apr 17, 2004
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 250
Galleries: Sports, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Apr 18, 2004

Jump #20 -


1) Auto Adjusted color version.

2) Cropped out everything but the air and the skate boarder.

3) Unsharp Mask - 150%/20.0 pixels/0.0 Threshold

4) Cropped Again - w 1.5 x l 1.0

5) Switch Mode to B&W

6) Size taken to 8 x 12

7) DPI taken from about 117 to 300, 10 dpi at a time.

8) Used eyedropper tool to sample blackest part of silhouette. Then selected entire figure with magic wand. Used da bucket to fill the figure.

9) Shmudged one spot out of existence.

10) Called it a day.

Statistics
Place: 127 out of 169
Avg (all users): 4.7822
Avg (commenters): 5.0714
Avg (participants): 4.6667
Avg (non-participants): 4.9149
Views since voting: 1303
Votes: 202
Comments: 17
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04/30/2004 04:17:39 PM
You sharpened it to much so you got the halo.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/25/2004 03:38:54 PM
Shame about the halo effect as this would be better looking more pure - also a bit more off-centre with some neg space. Great capture.
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04/25/2004 12:35:49 PM
Would have been better without the halo I feel, great capture though.
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04/23/2004 08:17:19 AM
Great timing and a splendid capture - very sharp for an action shot - but I think you've slightly overdone the post processing. You could do with a little less of the unsharp mask (i'm guessing that's what brought about the halo effect) and the desaturating has somehow dulled the impact - was it really worse in colour? Also, the sky is a bit on the noisy / pixelated side, and a gentle neatimage / guasian blur on the background might have reduced this a bit. The hand on the left is also a bit disturbing as it looks like a monster has bitten two of the fingers off - but that's just an observation and not a score altering thing... good effort, you just need to tone down your editting a bit.
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04/21/2004 07:36:01 PM
Overprocessed to the point that it's not a photo any more...
TC
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04/21/2004 06:08:43 PM
I love it, the glow is very effective. I would crop it a little bit differently. I wouldn't be suprised if some people might think it's a graphic art (aka a drawing or cutt out) and not a photo. (9)
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04/21/2004 02:12:06 PM
Good action silhouette. The grainy and white outline to the skate boarder seems to fit well. I'm interested to learn the technique used to achieve the outline effect.
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04/21/2004 12:03:57 AM
Background too grainy and what is with the outlining? Way too much editing of what could have been a good shot, except there does not seem to be a backlight -- unless I am missing it.
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04/20/2004 08:38:00 PM
kudos to extreme sports!
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04/20/2004 12:06:24 PM
Nice halo effect. Was that done with unsharp mask in photoshop?
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04/20/2004 01:01:27 AM
Very cool picture. I don't know if I like the white outline around the silhouette. It doesn't really look natural, even though it might very well be.
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04/19/2004 10:36:33 AM
Too much edge halo around the subject, otherwise perfect catch and good clean shape.
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04/19/2004 09:43:27 AM
Good job of capturing the action. The glow around the body doesn't add anything for me - it seems too "uniform." Image is pretty well centered which doesn't add any impact.
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04/19/2004 04:06:46 AM
I dunno what you did to the guy. Looks all right, if it hadn't been for that thick white border all around. (3)
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04/19/2004 01:55:32 AM
nice but over photoshopped I think. But thats just my personal opinion and I'm not for a second suggesting it is in any way illegal.

The problem with this challenge being "advanced editing" meant that any photo could be adjusted enough and played with to be a silhouette.
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04/19/2004 01:47:55 AM
Good action shoot. Little bit to much noise.
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04/19/2004 12:42:11 AM
Why is there a strange pale halo around the entire silhouette - this strikes me as heavily and poorly manipulated.
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