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The Snow Princess
The Snow Princess
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Free Study 2010-02 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Olympus E-500 EVOLT
Lens: Olympus 50mm f/2.0 Macro ED Zuiko Digital
Location: Reykjavik
Date: Feb 26, 2010
Aperture: F 2.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/1000
Galleries: Portraiture, Children
Date Uploaded: Feb 28, 2010

 At last the icelandic ground was covered with snow. The children like it. You probably recognize this young shoolgirl from some of my previous images. She was playing with friends in front of the school in Reykjavik during recess.

Lighroom: cropped, creative BW high contrast, less brightness, exported to PS: adding some brown color, levels, curves, resized, sharpened, framed before saving for the web.

Statistics
Place: 60 out of 379
Avg (all users): 6.1831
Avg (commenters): 8.6667
Avg (participants): 6.1981
Avg (non-participants): 6.1389
Views since voting: 959
Views during voting: 251
Votes: 142
Comments: 8
Favorites: 3 (view)

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AuthorThread
 03/09/2010 03:50:24 AM
DOF is terrific. Stunning photograph. One of my tops picks for this challenge.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/07/2010 04:24:11 PM
I like the strong contrast and shallow DOF. 9
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 03/05/2010 08:00:08 PM
excellent
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 03/03/2010 05:53:49 AM
stunning photo..very well done
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 03/01/2010 09:56:59 AM
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: Another gsal masterpiece, I never get fed up of seeing these and your high contrast treatment always makes your portraits stand out from the crowd. I'd love to know what your editing work flow is to get this 'look'. Your model does you proud here - the straight on gaze, the hair into her mouth adds drama. The narrow depth of field and nailed focus adds plenty too. I was going to say we didn't need to 2nd figure and suggest a square crop, but if I do that with a piece of paper I can see that I'd be wrong - the 2nd figure add spatial context to the viewer - your model looks pasted into place without the figure there to anchor the scene.

Critical stuff: Nothing at all.

Overall: Superb portrait.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/01/2010 09:16:02 AM
Supurb high contrast B&W and the compositon is great. 10
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 03/01/2010 06:37:12 AM
Love it!
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 02/28/2010 10:48:53 PM
lovely tones.
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