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Camera: Canon PowerShot SD200
Location: cafeteria
Galleries: Portraiture, Black and White
Date Uploaded: May 2, 2006

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Comments: 4
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 Just a quick shot I took with bristol board behind her and under her face to light up her eyes, a suggestion I got from Librodo. I think it worked fantastically, I'm very proud of this shot. I'm surprised it turned out so well with crappy cafeteria lighting. Was going to enter it for free study, but my camera's date was set wrong.

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Nikon D60
Sigma 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS for Nikon
 02/26/2007 08:57:35 AM
I think it is a just fine, well shot, well cropped, very honest portrait shot.

I do agree that the nose and beads are just a tad overblown and might be helped a bit by taking this image into PhotoShop and going into levels and pulling back on the output whites just a tad ... if you have PhotoShop ... If not ... just pull back on the brightness a bit in any image editor as I don't think the rest would suffer too much if you did.

If I was gonna be fussy, I would say some noise reduction could help this a bit to make it look more smooth.

I very much like that this looks very candid and captured rather than posed. This is definitely NOT your average "snapshot"
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Canon EOS-7D
Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 DC Macro for Canon
 05/12/2006 09:04:04 AM
Wonderful. Nice sideways glance. The use of negative space, with her looking that way, is perfect. Great image.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 05/12/2006 08:15:23 AM
Heh I was going to bemoan the flying hair, but thats just me :) I actually don't think its really that bad and it adds to the mood of the photo. I also really like the pose/facial expression and the lighting is pretty good, but maybe just a little bit too harsh. The big blowout on the nose is most noticible but the necklace is also gone. A little bit more diffusion I think and this would be excellent. One other thing you might think about is lightening up the eyes just a little bit more either with other lighting techniques next time or in post-processing!
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Nikon D80
Tamron AF 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di II for Nikon
 05/12/2006 07:14:19 AM
Nice shot! I like the overall flow to the composition and the "not perfect" feel to it all, although I am sure others on here would bemoan the flying hair here and there. For me, it makes it more natural, almost a candid-like shot. Amazing what you can do with two bits of card!
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