A crop of one of many photos taken of Iubita Mea (ask a Romanian) while visiting the National Zoo in Washington, DC. Funny thing was, we didn't know about the challenge when we took these photos, it was serendipity, baby!
I liked this shot, but wanted to do something different than I normally would. You see, I like B&W shots and judging by my profile, I've submitted too many of them. I want to get better at color. This is definately a color shot, whether it is better remains to be seen.
Post-processing here was fairly simple, but just time intensive. I made a copy of the background layer and tweaked it with Hue/Saturation. Then I made seperate layers for both the hair and the eyes, and tweaked those with Hue/Saturation as well. Finally, I used the smudge tool set to 'Color' on the background layer copy, which helped to spread the color more and soffen some of the graininess.
Here's to you, Iubita mea!!!
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Strangely enough, my first reaction was COOL.
Then I read the notes and it's clear to me why this pic scored low.
But the score you got is way too low imho.
Where is the rule about too much Post processing?
I like it, it wouldn't be my pick for the blue, but somewhere around a 5.4 – 5.6 would have been a more realistic score if I was the sole judge...
Well I guess you have learned a lesson. Not everybody has the same taste ;)
And DPC is a real difficult crowd when it comes to “different” pictures.
Out of the box is never a good idea if you want to score, but it is cool....
Cograts, and keep up the good work.
The processing on this is a little out there. Composition is alright, maybe a little tight. The eyes and her expression are nice. Definitely an "out of the box" type portrait. :-)
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