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From Sweet Grace Fallen
From Sweet Grace Fallen
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Challenge: Nightmares II (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G9
Location: Coffs Harbour
Date: Apr 15, 2009
Aperture: F 2.80
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/60 seconds
Galleries: Children, Horror
Date Uploaded: Apr 17, 2009

 This little girl is really lovely and beautiful, but with a bit of baby powder (to make her face white), a bit of lipstick (she applied it herself)and an ability to pull a wicked face, she makes a great deamon child.

I used Photoshop to edit the photo. I copied the image into another layer then applied a gausian blur to the bottom layer and erased most of the background from the top layer. I adjusted hue/saturation, color balance, and levels to both layers. I put on a layer mask and enhanced the lip color. I used the burn tool to darken some distracting light areas in the background. I cropped the image and added a border and resized it and saved it for web.

Statistics
Place: 58 out of 95
Avg (all users): 5.3567
Avg (commenters): 7.1667
Avg (participants): 5.0789
Avg (non-participants): 5.4454
Views since voting: 1008
Views during voting: 397
Votes: 157
Comments: 9
Favorites: 0

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 04/27/2009 05:37:03 AM
One of my challenge favorites, except for the frame. I'm glad she is holding a doll (rather than a knife or something), though I think an older doll might have worked better. Still, interesting accident how the 'V' her fingers make mirror the 'V' of the doll's eyebrows! Btw, I thought this was one of the "too" children ( timfythetoo or aimeethetoo).
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 04/27/2009 05:07:47 AM
This might be the scariest photo of the challenge. Well done.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/26/2009 07:45:31 PM
Oh dear... see, this is what happens to little girls who wish dearly for a Ballerina Barbie, but instead, end up with a Sailor Scout... She'll never forgive you for this, and quite rightly too.

Love the soft colours, focus, angle of view and naturally, the devilish expression on your young model ;) Well done capturing this moment!
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 04/26/2009 07:41:51 PM
I think I know who this is, but I'm giving you a 7 for being truly scary, or at least creepy.
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 04/22/2009 08:48:05 AM
well, the doll kinda ruins it for me, but the face is perfectly creepy. so is the dress, oddly enough.
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 04/21/2009 09:02:22 AM
Love the treatment on this shot. I suppose a devilish child is a nightmare :-)
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 04/21/2009 04:36:57 AM
poor girl, what you've done on her ;P
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 04/20/2009 05:27:39 PM
Sometimes it's better not to comment and just vote. Well done.
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 04/20/2009 08:52:35 AM
Stephen King's grandchild, maybe? :-) What a lovely demented shot of a...umm...err...demonic being...;-)8
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