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Alluring
Alluring
BrianR


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Challenge: Glamour (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Location: Hervey Bay,Queensland,Australia
Date: May 18, 2009
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/1250
Galleries: Portraiture, Street
Date Uploaded: May 19, 2009

 Cathie Maree, Married mother of 2 Grown boys, and has a fashion beautique on the water front. The day of this shoot was not feeling the best with a head cold, and like the trooper she is, agreed to do the modeling for me, thank you Cathie Maree.The background is of vessels on the marina and fitted in for the shoot.

Opened raw file in Lightroom 1.4.1
Rotate/tone/crop

Cs3
Skin fix action for photoshop
channel mixer
Dodge /Burn
Hue/Sat
Ni
Usm

Statistics
Place: 58 out of 83
Avg (all users): 4.5542
Avg (commenters): 5.0000
Avg (participants): 4.3000
Avg (non-participants): 4.5905
Views since voting: 821
Views during voting: 469
Votes: 240
Comments: 6
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AuthorThread
 06/09/2009 03:33:04 PM
Brian, I think that you were robbed on this one. If there's a little noise on the hair so be it but that's not enough to bring this beautiful image to a sub 5 score. As for the expression, well it's natural and real for someone to look as she does. I've shot plenty of models and head shots and I have plenty of photos with similar facial expressions. I do find this alluring :) Keep up the great work.

All the best to you and yours.

MAX!
 05/27/2009 07:15:17 AM
The score on this is truly appalling. This is a gorgeous picture showing the true beauty of a woman. Really nicely done, Brian. By the way, I can't see the noise at all on the monitor I use to edit, but I can on my laptop which is a lot "brighter".
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/26/2009 01:04:05 PM
nice color & the texture of the shirt is nice, but some ISO loss in the hair (though the model's hair itself looks great)
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 05/24/2009 11:58:29 PM
Unfortunately her expression looks like she doesn't want to be photographed and she is telling you to put the camera away :(
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 05/23/2009 02:04:16 AM
I don't understand why there's so much grain in her hair. Other than that, the depth of field is very good, and I find this a very good sample of glamour.
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 05/20/2009 07:02:41 AM
I like the earrings! :-)

Seriously, not sure what happened here, but there's a ton of noise in the hair (underexposed and brought up in post maybe?) and the eyes/mouth (lower lip) seem to be selectively sharpened a bit too much.

Regarding the composition...I can't really get comfortable with the angle/lean.
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