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Pieces of ME?!
Pieces of ME?!
Lonni


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Puzzled (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Nikon D80
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5D
Date: Feb 21, 2009
Aperture: f11
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Humorous
Date Uploaded: Feb 21, 2009

 Editing:

Convert from raw with adjustments to brightness, contrast, colour balance.
Cloned out my tripod leg
Cloned out stray eyebrow hairs
Cloned out printing error in jigsaw (on upper lip)
Crop
Adjustment layer for brightness/contrast (masked only to jigsaw)
Adjustment layer for desaturation of yellow channel (over whole image)
Adjustment layer for Partial desaturation of red channel (masked only to jigsaw)
Adjustment layer for brightness/contrast (masked to smaller jigsaw in the jigsaw)
Resize to 1500 pixels wide
USM at something like 250%
USM masked only to left eye at about 70%
Resize to 720 pixels wide
Save for Web

Thanks everyone for the great comments. I didn't imagine I was so close to ribboning with this one.



Statistics
Place: 4 out of 168
Avg (all users): 6.4532
Avg (commenters): 7.6875
Avg (participants): 6.4516
Avg (non-participants): 6.4539
Views since voting: 3173
Views during voting: 430
Votes: 203
Comments: 26
Favorites: 9 (view)

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AuthorThread
 07/09/2009 03:05:43 AM
wow .. i've looked at this some more ..
i hadnt read your processing steps when i made the first comment .. so i see that there was a tripod involved .. so its not a figment of my imagination .. !!
but this gets better and better the more i look at it .. :)
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 07/09/2009 03:02:34 AM
amazing idea and wonderful execution ..
your eyes are spectacular .. i got totally caught up in them ..
then i thought i saw a tripod .. lol lol !!.
congrats on a fourth place .. its a fantastic image .. :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/05/2009 11:30:54 AM
Great image Lonni! You are on a roll. Congrats on a top five four finish! WTG!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/05/2009 03:35:27 AM
Hey Lonni this is great! You have gorgeous eyes to! Congrats!
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 03/04/2009 12:41:42 PM
on a roll Lonni! Keep up the good work!
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 03/04/2009 12:33:24 PM
Congrats on an intriguing image and your HM!
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 03/04/2009 11:56:31 AM
Brilliant idea and execution! Congrats!
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 03/03/2009 07:20:19 PM
Eight votes under three? Nice to see the "I think she cheated" voters still don't read the "how to vote" section. Great Idea, perfectly executed.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/03/2009 05:53:15 AM
if this does not make the front page i will be very disappointed /10
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/02/2009 09:29:35 AM
i enjoyed the depth of the puzzles
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 03/01/2009 01:34:12 PM
The look on the girls face really makes this shot for me. Good one
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/01/2009 05:27:26 AM
Great focus, I like this portrait a lot. Nice lighting and composition. Creative idea. Great job.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/28/2009 01:56:48 PM
The effort paid off. Nice work.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/27/2009 06:23:41 PM
one of my favorites from this challenge
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/26/2009 11:33:29 PM
Very clever idea.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/26/2009 12:44:12 PM
Good Shot
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/26/2009 07:51:56 AM
Love the creativity
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 02/25/2009 06:36:39 PM
Great! Very creative! :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/25/2009 05:36:04 PM
Wow, I have to know how you did that!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/25/2009 12:05:41 PM
I like it. (I wish the puzzle pictures were just a little clearer - some localized contrast or sharpening adjustments could do it.) Good luck
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/25/2009 09:19:48 AM
Nicely executed! Good shot. 7
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 02/25/2009 04:26:15 AM
This is so awesome, fantastic setup
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/24/2009 11:35:50 PM
idea is not new, but perfectly meets the challenge and shot is very well executed
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/24/2009 11:00:43 PM
You have a very very patient model.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/24/2009 08:56:55 PM
too bad you couldn't have gotten a better DOF.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/24/2009 07:59:12 PM
Top 10. Most creative and well-executed. A slight ding for being slightly washed out on the main face but otherwise, great work.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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