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Photographer's Comments |
Challenge: Street Portraiture (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Berkeley, California, USA
Date: Jul 3, 2010
Aperture: 3.51
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/251
Galleries: Portraiture, Street
Date Uploaded: Jul 4, 2010
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When I was walking down the other side of the street (Telegraph Avenue), and past this fellow in a blue-sequined top hat sitting in a doorway, he said "Hey, I like your camera," so it only seemed fitting that I would try and capture him for this challenge. Somewhat unfortunately, he was sitting in a shadowed doorway, but at least the light was pretty even.
The challenge description seems to require an image in the style of a formal portrait, while still being taken in a candid situation. I shot this from across the street -- waiting for a break in the traffic (both pedestrian and automobile), and for him to look in my direction. My goal was to make it look like an old-fashioned, hand-tinted print from maybe the late 1800's -- I didn't try to "correct" the noise/grain or soft-focus ...
-Handheld, Manual mode, Auto WB
-RGB Curve
-Create feathered oval selections
-RGB Curves through selections to vignette/fade background
-RGB and Blue/Yellow Curve through inverted selection to adjust contrast of subject
-Hue/Sat/Lightness through inverted selection to desaturate reds and greens
-Crop
-Resize
-Local Dodging/Burning and local sharpening to eyes/facial features
-A little cloning to restore color texture to blown highlight on forearm
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 278KB |
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07/11/2010 10:19:45 PM |
| This is very individual and I like it. |
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07/11/2010 07:32:31 PM |
| Interesting choice of going with the purple tones. IMHO, I think if you had gone with a sepia treatment, it may work with the grain for an antique look. Anyways, this popped out for me cuz the guy looks like a modern day Billy the Kid [in New Orleans with the beads :) ] Good luck with the voting. |
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07/11/2010 02:31:23 PM |
| Not sure what is going on above his right eye. The image is also noisy. |
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07/11/2010 12:23:39 AM |
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07/09/2010 01:45:18 PM |
| Artistic -- maybe a little overdone. His left eye looks like it's had a bit too much doctoring... |
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07/07/2010 08:58:19 AM |
| I really like the processing on this. |
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07/06/2010 06:02:52 PM |
| Sorry, but I don't like the processing on this one. |
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07/04/2010 08:09:53 PM |
| The treatment has something of an old time hand colored appearance to it. The eyes are a bit oversharp and appear a little out of place with the rest of the shot. |
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