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Nice lighting. Great shot.
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This is a well deserved winner! I love how her eyes compliment the orange background. Beautiful!
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i'd love to know how u got the lighting halo, it's my favorite part of the image
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Great shot, congrats on the blue
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i really love how you lit this. i wonder how it looks without the post processing ? : ) take care my friend
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You're Mr. Ribbon King around here! Very well done Gary, I love the softness in it also. *High Fives Gary*
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Awesome lighting! Just glows. Congrats on yet another blue.
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Absolutely beautiful...Congrats!!
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Congratulations--I've been enjoying just the thumbnail being on the front page! Striking shot, great lighting and pose. Hope someday you share your secrets (especially your recent processing trends--great stuff!)
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Congratulations on an amazingly beautiful image... :)
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WOW SWEET PHOTO!!!!!
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HOLY @#$%!...for lack of better words
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Very cool image. Congrats and well earned Blue.
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Wonderful picture. I like the way the blue in her eyes and the fiery colors in the background work together.
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Awesome image, congratulations
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Great Image and Great Model!
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Kiwi, you rock, great picture (portrait) as usual you are a great photographer. Glad to see you are still nabbing those Blue Ribbons at will almost. Congrats!
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Congratulations on your well deserved ribbon. Well done.
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A real standout. Well done!
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Incredible image and an incredible model!
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What a beautiful photo, its just outstanding.
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Congrats! This is just fantastic! I have so much to learn...
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Well done on getting 1st!
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Congrats on the blue and a great shot. Any chance of posting the lighting setup for this?
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Gary you have the touch,this is such a hard picture to pull off. But being the MASTER! you have displayed your talents to rule once again.
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Great work, Gary! Such a wonderful photo, with so much passion and vibrating. I can't believe this is the same Sabrina as on Nasti's enrty. :-) And, congrats on the well deserved win!
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Wonderfull! Congratulations! Gr. Eduard
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They are very simliar aren't they....yours is just jacked up to a much hotter background.
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great effect
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I knew it was you!
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A perfect portrait----love the blue eyes against all of the "fire"--congrats!
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Something really different takes the cake here. The combination of warm colors, fiery background and shadowy crevices really make this unique amoung all the entries. The hair is on fire as is her sultry demeanor. Congrats on the blue. Well won!
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Congratulations enough, I want to know what your models reaction was when she saw this outcome... I guess she has no problems to model for you again? ;)
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Beautiful subject. Excellent lighting. Hot background. Why wouldn't his ribbon? Good job Gary!
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Very groovy shot, Gary! Amazing combination of sharpness and softness, inner and outer glow!
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Like a burning nymph in Dante's Inferno. Take me there! Congratulations to one of our most gifted talent on this highly coveted Blue. Gary, you are amazing.
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Congrats Gary. A well deserved ribbon. Love that background. The lighting takes me straight to her eye. Well done. The "first to 25" will be close ;)
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Well deserved! I had a feeling this was yours! :)
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Gary my man! Congrats! Great work! :-)
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freakin great job ... i'm so happy you've decided to get back into submitting. Raising the bar for everyone.
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Incredible, this image sizzles. Love the eyes in particular, amazing blue. Her expression is mesmerizing. Wow.
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This is a wonderful image Gary
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Fabulous image in every way. You have an uncanny way of connecting to DPC voters.
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I'm so glad to see this taking the blue ribbon, this is absolutely the best image in this challenge... I really like it a lot, it's very unique, well done pp working perfectly with the background and the model.. really underlining her beauty! Congrats man!
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Excellent, congrats on the 1st place.
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wow, great shot! congrats on the ribbon!
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Originally posted by Anastasia:
congratulations ribbon-boy :)..wanna cuppa?
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KIWI! KIWI! KIWI! KIWI! KIWI! KIWI! KIWI!
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Awesome shot. I am really taken with your background. Can you please enlighten me.
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Great job my friend!! This is a spectacular photo!!! :)
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What more needs to be said?.....congrats again.
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Dude!!! You pulled it.
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Whoooooot .........congrats on your well deserved blue Gary!! Composition, colours and lighting in this shot are just divine!!!!
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Congrats on a well deserved Blue ribbon !
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Wow!! That was a long week. There was so much tough competition is this one. The quality of portrait photography in DPC has improved so much over the last couple of years. Thank you for all the votes and comments.
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Excellently done! Congrats on yet another ribbon :-)
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congratulations ribbon-boy :)..wanna cuppa?
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stunning...
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Wow! What a shot, congrats on your Blue Gary - Just stunning!
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Congratulations! This is stunning.
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MAGICAL....a wonderful vibrant portrait of a beautiful model.....
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Congrats. Very odd scoring pattern on this one.
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Proves to everyone that you're the man to beat in portraits. Amazing shot. I wish I have your creativity (and the studio).:)
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not like you need another comment! well done ribbon hog. hehe
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OH my! I so love this shot! Congrats! you rock!
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Congrats on yet another blue with this amazing shot. Certainly a sizzler! :-)
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Stunning - what a wonderful job you've done here.
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Yesssssssssssss.... it just superbe...... congrats...
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absolutely thoroughly deserved win...this has a real vavavavoom about it! Great photography from a great photographer
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Outstanding as usual! Congrats on your blue!
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You suck and shouldn't be allowed to play any reindeer games anymore... I mean really, how about taking another sabatical and letting the rest of us have a chance? Just kiddin'... You know we love you even if you are a ribbon grubbin' scum! Next beers on me!
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Great job Gary! You beat the rest of us by a mile! I don't mind giving up blue to this one at all. I had a feeling it was yours.
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WTG kiwiness! a wonderful image
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Amazing portrait, as always! Congratulations on the blue!
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Congrats on the blue Gary! Great work.
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Knew this would be a winner. One of my favourites added during the voting period. Good work once again, your kiwiness :)
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Congrats my friend ! I've never seen anyone do model photos as amazingly well and you and Nasti.
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Fantastic ..awesome shot well done.
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Good job, Gary...you're turning into a regular ribbon monster!!!
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Wow! You are king of the portraits my friend! Great job.
Comments Made During the Challenge
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Bumping up at the end... A very very cool image and a certain top placement... well done.
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Outstanding. Great skin tones, love the background. Good luck!
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Excellent use of color tones (those blue eyes really stand out), but too much contrast for my taste - 8
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Absolutely love it! lovely light and effects!
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I really like this photo. The colours are fantastic and her eyes grab my attention. Great model, great shot.
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Excellent photo. The background looks fantastic!
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Great composition - good attention to background.
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Very dynamic shot! Hope you'll make it to top 3. :)
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WOW this is a beautiful photo
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This is a bit like a bomb going of.
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Great job on the lighting! I loved the match tones of this.
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this is beatiful
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There's too much warmth for me here... I'm not one to light warm light. I think the contrast is set a little high too.
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The curly hair over the face really makes the shot.
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This is just outstanding, the look in her eyes really makes this photo, the pp is very good and works well with the background... I haven't seen all of the photos in the challenge yet, but I think this should end up very high, if not take a ribbon! After rating all of the photos I like this one the most, it's just great!
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a pretty face coupled with good mastery of light. Good job!
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Nicely done. My other top pick for the challenge.
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wow.
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Wow! Absolutely stunning. Amazing model, lighting, and background. Hope this does well.
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Top 3 if I had any say in it.
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Wow lovely use of light and coloring.
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I hope to get a chance to comment further later on, but for now I want to say: This is true, perfect beauty.
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Great colors, nice contrast, interesting background.
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Love this shot, especially the backround (you gotta tell me how you did that backround, I love it!!!), it really makes it pop off the screen. Would have given this a 10 but I am not really all that fond of the post processing on the skin, too smooth and plastikky so I slipped this one a 9.
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Great coloring and light. One of the few interesting portraits. Gorgeous.
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Among the over-the-top PP shots, this is one of my favorites. Clearly altered, but still keeps a hint of naturalness. 9
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How you doin!! LOL...great picture 10
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Beautiful colors and lighting but the skin looks too soft
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Yowsa! This is stunning. The lighting, background, her stare. Melts me right in my chair ;) However there is something about her that doesn't look right. It might be the whites of her eyes - they're too white and the softness of the hair. Either way, this will still score high and will definitely be in the top 10. Good luck!
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Excellent lighting ... love the mood and the mystery. Very evocative.
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Oh my god! She is stunning! 10
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Absolutely stunning photo! The eyes are incredibly captivating, and I love the background!!
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Oh yes, I like this one...
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Great lighting and background. Really like the explosive feel and how the hair almost hides the one eye..myserious.
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Great shot... the background matches REALLY well with the hair and skin tones. Can't really find anything worng with it... 10
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i really like this look, hopefully I can copy it. I will have to find out how it was done.
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Wow my fave of the challenge
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AWESOME! This will win I am sure of it
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hubbuda hubbuda! this is fiesty! wonderful shot! great pose, love the colour...Well done, hope you do well with this...
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Very good, but lack of detail in the highlights (around the nose in particular) spoil it a little for me.
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Cool effect - wart colors 7 from me
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I love the halo effect behind her.....well done.....Another "10" from me.....
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