Challenge:Despair (Classic Editing) Collection:People Camera:Sony DSC-S70 Location: River Heights, UT Date: Feb 23, 2003 Aperture: f 2.4 ISO: 100 Shutter: 1/125 Date Uploaded: Feb 23, 2003
All my kids have the flu today, and it is bad! Achy body, stiff limbs, head and neck ache. My daughter, Lauren, finally said, "I can't stand it any longer!" and gave me this face. I said "Freeze!" adjusted some lights and took the shot. Photoshop manipulation was turning it to grayscale, slight levels adjustment, cropping, and using unsharp mask.
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Wonderful portrait. The lighting looks excellent to my untrained eye, with highlights at just the right places. The watery eyes are highlighted making it look as though the girl is tearful. I like the highlight on the lips and hair too. Also the model looks good with a nice-shaped face and the freckles are unusual and add to the interest of the shot overall.
I don't quite see what has caused this dispair. However, this image keeps me intrested. The hair nicely frames the face creating some very nice lines and the freckles also add value. And the "dirty"feel image is quite nice too.
Well done! That is a real look of despair which couldn't really be acted! I take it from your title that she has the flu, poor girl. The crop is very here tight but it doesn't really matter at all in this image, in fact I find it does it credit. It looks exactly like the shot of the woman lying dead on the floor in Hitchcock's film "Psycho". Choice!
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