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Challenge: Free Study 2009-02 (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Challenges 2009
Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Lensbaby Composer
Location: Eisenach
Date: Feb 21, 2009
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/80
Galleries: Lensbaby
Date Uploaded: Feb 28, 2009
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Heh - sorry, Christoph, but I had to.... :-)
I have a couple of nifty HDR'd shots from an old train station and more nifty HDR'd and Topaz'd shots from 8 stories up in Frankfurt - with good light, even! I have some nifty night shots from 70+ stories up in Frankfurt, too. But I'm going with this one simply because it's my favorite shot of the month. It makes me smile. It reminds me of a great time. It was fun to take.
We were at a little restaurant feeding Cory (Chris and I had just eaten there, went back to feed Cory and have a beverage) and of course we were all playing with cameras. Chris had stuck my gorillapod on his head, so I had to shoot. Light was HORRIBLE, so I used the pop-up camera flash with a napkin over it to diffuse it a touch.
Processing involved cloning a flash reflection off his glasses, a Nik Silver Efex layer reduced in opacity to about 90% (not sure what setting - unfortunately Bridge doesn't save that info for me, but I think it may be the Holga setting), a wee bit of red/yellow added in a color balance layer, sharpen, resize, save for web.
No, I don't expect this will do well but I do hope it makes a few of you (other than Christoph and Cory) smile. I'm very pleased with it as my choice for this month.
[Mar. 3rd, 2009 02:41:10 PM]
OK, so no one finds this amusing except me, Christoph and Cory. Ah well. Maybe you had to be there.... :-)
By the way, even with it's lovely 4.4ish score, I'm STILL pleased to have this as my entry for this month.
9 Oct 2009: Edit to add this is STILL one of my favorite shots this year. :-)
7 Jun 2012: I still love this picture.
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12/08/2011 06:02:59 PM |
| LOL! The devolution has begun :-) |
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10/09/2009 10:37:24 AM |
| Honestly. How do you expect to raise your average if you cannot resist le moment amusant? |
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09/19/2009 09:52:23 AM |
| ROFL! First I've seen this. Excellent sci-fi feel! Sorry your score was soooo low. I would have given this a high vote. |
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03/31/2009 05:58:52 PM |
| I really like this Deb. Very well composed and the grain is great. |
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03/10/2009 08:55:52 AM |
| Thanks to you and other fabulous photogs here, I'm beginning to appreciate my own submissions that only I "get". I happen to really love the mood here too. Very Star Trek in a Talking Heads mood. |
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03/09/2009 05:09:55 PM |
You did a really nice job with creating an aura of mystery (and fun!)
and it sounds as if you had a great time doing it - it certainly made me smile! so thanks for that...
Penny Street |
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03/09/2009 02:03:15 PM |
ROFL - I love the fact you had the courage to put this into a Free Study - a double helping of Kudos to you and a Gingerbread latte to follow . .
It looks worryingly like you have kidnapped him and are doing some crazed experiment involving thunderstorms and lengths of copper wire . . .
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03/08/2009 03:56:57 PM |
| yeah that was a good time, I sure am glad i wasnt the one being humiliated in the free study ;) |
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03/08/2009 01:32:22 PM |
| I think it's the flash that killed you. Those harsh shadows scream amateur. But if you look past that, it's a great candid moment! Nicely processed with an air of mystery. And a good memory for you and Chris, it sounds like. My two cents anyway... |
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03/08/2009 07:14:22 AM |
| He kinda looks like a young John Lennon |
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03/08/2009 06:52:31 AM |
 :) |
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03/07/2009 08:00:17 PM |
What are you doing way down here, woman!? Definitely an odd one. I can see why it came in where it did, but you appealed to  Ubique, which is not easy to do.
I will not even guess what I might have voted it, because it did not come up for me. I am pleased to see you entering what you like, however. It's a way more interesting photo than my train! |
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03/05/2009 01:24:21 AM |
| I nearly always like portraits with eyes closed ... the good ones seem to liberate the subject, and give the viewer so much more scope for imagination. This is a good one. |
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03/04/2009 06:46:37 AM |
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03/02/2009 11:13:48 AM |
| This doesn't have anything to do with a German GTG does it? Looks remarkably like Mephisto - with a gorilla pod on his head..... Probably one of the most bizarre portraits I have seen on DPC of late - nice one! |
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03/01/2009 04:26:23 PM |
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03/01/2009 07:21:40 AM |
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02/28/2009 07:18:59 PM |
| AHHHHHHHHHH DEB! hahahaha this was like the 3rd one to pop up, so funny. good times |
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