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Little Boy Blue(jeans)
Little Boy Blue(jeans)
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Blue III (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-450D Rebel XSi
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Niagara Falls, ON
Date: Nov 9, 2008
Aperture: f/5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Family, Studio
Date Uploaded: Nov 11, 2008

 This is my ol' chip off the block, he's 4. Good thing he got his looks from Mommy.

Processed from RAW in Capture One. Did the selective desat in Photoshop under the basic rules as described in Konador's tutorial. Pushed the high key effect with curves and levels, all in normal blend mode. A selective colour layer (also in normal blend, basic, blechhh) to get the Blues to stand up a bit. Unsharp mask (did I overdo it? Probably.) and border. Save for DPC.

My first submission to an Open challenge in a while, now part of Team Canada I. Go team!

post - interesting voting breakdown. A little disappointed this didn't go North of 6. For those who scored me the 1s, 2s and 3s...did you suspect a rules violation? The blue wasn't the right shade of blue? What? Typical sour grapes from below the 75th pecentile, but I really thought this image was better than that. Ah, well, you live and learn!

Statistics
Place: 49 out of 186
Avg (all users): 5.7395
Avg (commenters): 5.6667
Avg (participants): 5.4545
Avg (non-participants): 5.8375
Views since voting: 5591
Views during voting: 322
Votes: 215
Comments: 7
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 11/19/2008 01:58:49 AM
Originally posted by ucanoe:
how did you do this in basic?

Yeah, I thought someone might ask this....the link is in the description, if you're still interested. Long story short: use a hue/sat layer and desat every channel but the one(s) you want to keep. Make sure that adjustment layer is in normal blend!
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Message edited by author 2008-12-28 14:22:28.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/15/2008 04:27:18 PM
nice selective desat!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/13/2008 08:23:50 AM
Good shot, wish he was more to left side.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/12/2008 07:44:25 PM
Nice photo. There seems to be a bit too much space above his head and not enough below him.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/12/2008 12:24:52 PM
Cool...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/12/2008 11:59:14 AM
how did you do this in basic?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/12/2008 04:05:01 AM
Nice lighting, would prefer a smidge more space from his foot to the frame on the bottom.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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