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Stillness
Stillness
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Free Study 2009-12 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-50D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
Location: Jefferson, Brooks Institute, Santa Barbara, CA
Date: Dec 12, 2009
Aperture: f/2.2
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/160
Galleries: Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Dec 16, 2009

 Taken during an interactive lighting demo at school. We each had the opportunity to shoot the model during each lighting set-up. It's not the most unique image I took this month, but I know my other option would get murdered, and I like it too much for that! I like the expression I got from the model in this image.

Edit (Camera RAW):
- Up exposure (+0.2)
- Recovery (+20)

Edit (CS4):
- Spot heal skin
- Curves to correct for skin tone
- Curves to bring back/add blue-purple hue to background and hair
- Gaussian blur skin (0.9) > Mask back facial features and hair
- High pass sharpen on the facial features and hair
- Add slight vignette on left and bottom

Statistics
Place: 152 out of 334
Avg (all users): 5.5402
Avg (commenters): 5.3333
Avg (participants): 5.5385
Avg (non-participants): 5.5439
Views since voting: 653
Views during voting: 299
Votes: 174
Comments: 4
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/06/2010 01:15:25 AM
Nice control of DoF on her face, and you've done a nice job with the lighting too.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/05/2010 04:23:08 PM
beautiful model and overall nicely done - i am just wondering if a bit less harsh shadow on the face would really make this one shine
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/04/2010 04:11:10 AM
is stillness a word? ;)
 01/02/2010 01:36:01 PM
Simple clean portrait I am sure the model is extremely happy with. Though for this type of challenge it does not offer enough for me to give it two looks. Sure its clean, lighting is nice, and the colours work. Just nothing behind it.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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