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Challenge: Update Your Avatar (Expert Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
Location: room
Date: Jan 15, 2012
Aperture: f/7.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/160sec
Galleries: Portraiture, Self Portrait
Date Uploaded: Jan 15, 2012

 That was a fun, photos + edit 3 hours before the deadline, wish I would have decided to enter sooner and made the effect more realistic!

Thank you everyone for that amazing score and great comments, I never expected this last minute entry to do so well!

A few people wanted to know how I got the effect so here it is… basically I splashed paint on a white cardboard, took a photo of it, and used that as a template to make a rough “brush”, painting in more circular spots, erasing a few streaks, duplicating the drops in different sizes, and distorting a few of the drops. Then, I “splashed” the paint drops multiple times in several transparent layers, altering the shape of the brush as well as the direction. I loved how the effect made it look like the shirt was disintegrating! My Original idea however was just to splatter the background, but it didn’t look quite right, so the effect I got was a complete accident =)

For those interested, here is the one without the splash

Statistics
Place: 1 out of 90
Avg (all users): 7.9563
Avg (commenters): 8.5217
Avg (participants): 7.6034
Avg (non-participants): 8.1200
Views since voting: 6495
Views during voting: 518
Votes: 183
Comments: 43
Favorites: 17 (view)

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 02/24/2012 01:30:36 AM
I love this. It looks like you're breaking apart into nothing. It reminds me of the Nothing from NeverEnding Story.
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 01/24/2012 05:34:03 PM
Wonderful! I'm jealous of this type of vision. Thanks for sharing the process.
Congratulations. Well deserved.
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 01/24/2012 04:36:52 PM
It's interesting that, when the picture is viewed as would normally be seen (i.e. as a thumbnail/icon), the dissolving effect is even more striking!
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 01/23/2012 06:24:10 PM
Funnily enough, this was my favorite of the challenge. :) Great work, and awesome finish!
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 01/23/2012 11:55:58 AM
Wonderful! Thanks for the tutorial and congrats on your ribbon!
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 01/23/2012 10:51:29 AM
THAT'S how you did this?? Wouldn't have guessed. That is super cool. Congrats on the blue!
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 01/23/2012 06:34:16 AM
Congratulations, its a smashing image.
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 01/23/2012 06:19:31 AM
Congratulations on the ribbon. It is a really nice portrait on a great portrait made more interesting with the splatter. You can ribboned in the last three challenges (all Expert Editing). Very nice work.
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 01/23/2012 05:46:56 AM
I loved this shot, very creative, a brilliant avatar idea. Well done.
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 01/23/2012 04:40:44 AM
Very imaginitive! Congratulations to you!
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 01/23/2012 04:24:57 AM
Once again!!! Congrats.
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 01/22/2012 11:27:32 PM
What FocusPoint said, very reminescent of Joey. Great work and grats on the blue!
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 01/22/2012 10:39:59 PM
Congratulations on the blue! Great shot.

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 01/22/2012 08:45:44 PM
Fabulous, Justin. Congrats on the blue
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 01/22/2012 07:35:10 PM
Somehow reminded me of Joey's style...

an EXCELLENT photo :)
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 01/22/2012 07:13:59 PM
You are always great at cooking something up at the last minute Justin, love it! Congrats!
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 01/22/2012 07:07:56 PM
nice. direct and dispersed. Congratulations on the blue.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/22/2012 04:34:36 PM
Wonderful dispersal.
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 01/21/2012 12:26:54 PM
More like splattered. Nice.
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 01/20/2012 04:51:25 PM
Very interesting effect. Killer eyes
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 01/19/2012 03:31:40 PM
This all looks kind of "sci-fi-ish"
Good thing for you i love sci-fi :)
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 01/19/2012 07:39:35 AM
great, but in a thumbnail there will be nothing left 7
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 01/19/2012 03:01:49 AM
It helps when you have the perfect face to work with :)
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 01/19/2012 02:40:30 AM
I like that a lot, works really well.
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 01/18/2012 09:42:39 AM
Interesting. Not sure if this is what you were going for, but what I see in this is your shirt bursting apart. Pretty cool.
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 01/18/2012 04:08:29 AM
I absolutely love this... I'll be amazed if it doesn't blue. Superb retouching on his face and the splash looks like his shirt is disintegrating. Ten from me.
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 01/17/2012 05:21:09 PM
I really like the editing here. If you have steps and are willing to share I am all ears. This is great. See you on the front page. Hopefully on top.
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 01/17/2012 06:57:32 AM
Best in show award, congrats
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 01/16/2012 06:20:51 PM
Splashing confetti! Great color
bump
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 01/16/2012 01:43:19 PM
wow, marvellous picture. in my top 2 for this challenge definite ribbon winner, same as male portrait but cant remember name or go look it up hehe but well done, love the effect, but the eyes make it.
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 01/16/2012 12:41:19 PM
amazing!!! I am speechless...
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 01/16/2012 12:04:04 PM
Yep, really good job. 8
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 01/16/2012 09:43:12 AM
Great effect, besides the very nice portrait! Ribbon contender material... Congrats!
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 01/16/2012 07:32:48 AM
This is great,certainly in my top five.
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 01/16/2012 06:52:40 AM
This is brilliant. You need to post a step by step guide for this!
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 01/16/2012 06:42:47 AM
Very cool effect!
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 01/16/2012 06:28:17 AM
You always manage to use the limitless boundaries to your fullest. This is just outstanding. 10 from me.
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 01/16/2012 05:30:31 AM
Well done. I believe I saw a tutorial done on this somewhere...not sure. I hope you'll help us figure out how you pulled this off. Love the effect!!
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 01/16/2012 04:02:12 AM
elsapo? Quite easily a front page contender. Excellently done, hope you posted details on how you did this...been wanting to do something like this for quite some time.
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 01/16/2012 02:17:20 AM
Amazing!
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 01/15/2012 11:36:47 PM
You are great with PP!
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 01/15/2012 10:23:22 PM
by far the best entry in this challenge. if you don't win, it will be a huge upset!
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 01/15/2012 08:09:39 PM
Thats sweet man ! +++ 10
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