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Challenge: Portraits Without Children (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D50
Lens: Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO DG Macro for Nikon
Location: Red Deer, Alberta
Date: Jul 17, 2009
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Portraiture, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Jul 19, 2009

 This is my dad. He'll be turning 70 in September so definitely not a child. I took this shot when I visited him at the Red Deer Exhibition where he is racing his chuckwagon. (He has been racing for about 40 years or so).

Did levels adjustments and then edited this in Silver Efex. Used the "Antique Plate II" preset.
Exported to TIFF
Added Border in PSP XI, resized, and sharpened before exporting to JPG.

One comment my wife made was that this looks like the type of picture you'd see on the cover of a funeral program. Definitely a morbid thought and I agree with her but unfortunately it was too late to submit something else and I want to submit it anyways. It'll be interesting to see if there are other comments that say something similar.

Statistics
Place: 77 out of 159
Avg (all users): 5.5742
Avg (commenters): 7.6667
Avg (participants): 5.5789
Avg (non-participants): 5.5714
Views since voting: 812
Views during voting: 295
Votes: 155
Comments: 5
Favorites: 0

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 08/02/2009 06:23:39 AM
Greetings from the Critique Club

First Impression: Very nice to see such creative processing in the portrait challenge.

Composition: Bang on the money for me. I think it works extremely well.

Technical: Well, I am not seeing anything untoward here. I think it's well exposed, well lit and as said earlier, well composed. I suppose the only thing I can think of to explain the mid-range score is that people didn't like the processing. It could be a love/hate thing. I know it's always quite risky to use one of those Nik filters. (I used an amended version of the Holga for my own pigeon entry and it tanked!).

Artistic: Not your run of the mill portrait, so in that respect maybe a bit "out of the box" for this challenge?

I'm not certain why it didn't score higher, it's a strong image but maybe the processing is just not to everybody's taste. I happen to like it and would likely have given a 6/7 had I voted.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/26/2009 03:20:19 PM
Tons of character in this guy's face. I like it.
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 07/24/2009 12:51:35 PM
i can hear the silence 8
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 07/23/2009 09:41:21 AM
Nice use of B&w, it really suits the subject.
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 07/21/2009 08:37:44 AM
Nice editing. I really like the effect.
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