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Challenge: The Username Challenge IV (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Dec 31, 2011
Aperture: 3.19
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/1244
Galleries: Emotive, History
Date Uploaded: Dec 31, 2011

 Modeled after the Rembrandt painting Abraham and Isaac (1634), though taken from behind to preserve anonymity of the models (myself and Isaac.

Check out the outline of the clouds swooping in over the hillside ...

Note to CPS: My son Isaac was not harmed in the making of this picture, though he admitted that the rock made his back itch.

-Tripod, timer, manual mode
-Minor touch-ups to clone out stripes on pants leg and highlight knife blade
-RGB Curve
-Channel Mixer to create monchrome image
-Blue/Yellow Curve to give toning effect
-RGB Curve through graduated mask to create more contrast in the clouds
-Crop a bit from left and bottom
-Resize
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice)
-Enlarge Canvas to make border
-Curve to inner border through graduated mask
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 9/10 = 264KB

Statistics
Place: 126 out of 133
Avg (all users): 4.9141
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 4.8732
Avg (non-participants): 4.9457
Views since voting: 795
Views during voting: 272
Votes: 163
Comments: 11
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 01/11/2012 11:30:15 AM
An unsettling image, an unsettling story. I especially connected to this because my son sang Britten's Canticle II as a boy soprano.
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 01/11/2012 08:36:47 AM
Thanks everyone! For those who hated my "gilded frame" (I was emulating a Rembrandt, and that's how I usually see them displayed) I have almost completely toned-down the inner border for the print version, trying to leave just a hint of gradient to suggest an element of three-dimensionality.

01/10/2012 07:04:36 PM
I thought this was stunning(!).
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/10/2012 06:59:58 PM
awesome
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 01/10/2012 05:14:10 PM
frightful!
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 01/07/2012 06:47:59 PM
I like the concept but not sure about the rest... that frame is too much for me, it takes away from the image.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/07/2012 06:44:05 PM
nice image! nice idea! but I dont like the frame....
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 01/07/2012 09:27:07 AM
The image is interesting. The border is distracting.
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 01/06/2012 11:23:14 AM
Ouch! LOL! My eyes hurt from that border! LOL!

I think this would have done better in pure BW.
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 01/05/2012 11:52:54 AM
I love the color tone.
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 01/05/2012 09:38:19 AM
When I block out the OVERWHELMING BORDER, this is a gorgeous image.
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