Self Portrait lit with overhead ceiling lamp and front right halogen. Post Processing - Increase tonal range with blended highlight and shadow layers, flatten, levels, contrast, Film Grain, levels and contrast again, Plastic Wrap, Contrast and Levels one last time, Unsharp Mask, resize.
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Place: 291 out of 491 Avg (all users): 5.0410 Avg (commenters): 6.2105 Avg (participants): 4.8065 Avg (non-participants): 5.2130 Views since voting: 1516 Views during voting: 425 Votes: 293 Comments: 32 Favorites: 3 (view)
I just love this, Greetmir! The expression, the B&W, the grain slammed like crazy, the title driving the cause of the expression. A superb melding of elements guaranteed to garner a low score and render a fantastic picture and story! Good work, sir!
The technicals: The processing is well done. I do think you did a good job with the image grain. Lighting is nice as the high contrast helps the grainy feel. (it's probably a product of the processing as much as the original lighting).
The feel: Creative expression, but much to "stylized" for me. It's obvious it's a posed look. Without the title, what would we have? A charicature. That probably hurt you with a number of voters, but helped greatly with a few.
The game: Image grain is a tough sell here (although personally I love it). This shot was meant to speak to a few, not the mass audience.
I have to comment again when it's not so hurried. I really liked the energy and post processing on this. It was very creative and the light hearted naming rang a bell with everyone.
It was very good one. thnks for kind comments on my image. I did not think about scoring high for my image, just wanted to be creative. I hardly spend time doing photography, so for the time i spend, i got much more in return. Bye and congs for the membership, keep up the enthusiasm.
oh wow ... absolutely love this .... could be a winner .... fantastic processing .. i'd really like to know how this look was achieved ... :) ... =9 ..
ps .. very topical!!
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