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Challenge: Exit (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS
Location: Shady alley off the Cowgate, Edinburgh
Date: Jan 22, 2007
Aperture: f/1.8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/160
Galleries: Urban, Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Jan 22, 2007

 Going for a bit of a film noir look, with the shadow and everything, but the female model is more front-lit than i\'d like. I smashed one of my slave flashes last week and am still waiting for a replacement to arrive, so had to use the on-board and just one slave behind the dark figure. The on-board only let me dial down two stops, and i\'d have liked to drop more. Also there\'s more flare than i would have liked from the slave flash, but it had to be optically triggered and so had to be able to see my on-board... bah!

Hope it\'s obvious what\'s going on in this shot but i might not have made the worried expression on her face clear enough. This was actually a concept for a newspaper shot (that wasn\'t used in the end) to illustrate a rise in violent crime in the city centre of Edinburgh.

I\'d have for once really liked to use advanced editing here! Would have loved to do some dodging and burning around the near model to get a bit more depth, and to clone out that annoying amber reflection next to her hat! Editing: reduced saturation on the red channel (no selection) to give it a colder winterier look (as though 3 degrees wasn\'t cold enough in real life), no crop, nothing else, just resize and sharpen.

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Place: 24 out of 142
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Nikon D850
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 28-300mm f3.5-5.6G ED VR
 01/30/2007 08:11:37 PM
Scary!
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH2
Panasonic Lumix G VARIO 14-45mm F3.5-5.6 ASPH Mega O.I.S lens
 01/30/2007 05:28:21 PM
This tells a creepy story. I like it very much.
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Ricoh GR III
Pentax DA 18-135mm F3.5-5.6ED AL [IF] WR DC
 01/28/2007 12:35:52 AM
Beautiful colour in the face against the black and the white light. And truly we puzzle over the bug eyed monster with the hairy insect legs. Well done.
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Sony DSLR-A700
Sony DT 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 Aspherical ED
 01/27/2007 12:49:25 PM
not enough resolution in this photo to rate highly
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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 01/27/2007 12:10:32 PM
Some may see this as title dependent, but it really has the right emotional tone to portray if not "exit", apprehension. Excellent photograph at any rate.
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Nikon D80
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5- 5.6G ED DX
 01/27/2007 06:46:43 AM
Film noir-ish!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D70
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 01/26/2007 12:57:44 PM
Looks like a scene from some suspense movie. a little fearful expression on girl's face would have helped the shot a lot. although lighting control and composition fetch 8 from me.
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Canon EOS-30D
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 01/26/2007 12:15:29 PM
Wow, it looks like a movie shot. Bumped to 8
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Kodak C875
 01/26/2007 11:47:23 AM
The image in the background gives the photo an eery feeling. I also like the lighting and the angle at which it was shot.
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Canon EOS-650/T4i Rebel
Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
01/26/2007 10:21:02 AM
good story behind the pic and lighting..
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Canon EOS-50D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 01/25/2007 11:14:42 PM
Very creative! 8
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Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM
 01/25/2007 08:18:14 PM
is this a play on the play? :)

I love the lighting of the background guy, but I think the girls face should be a little darker (since the light is shown as coming from behind her). Also, her expression is so 'blah', wile she should look at least a little scared. I've seen many high quality photographs brought down by boring expressions of the models. And while I didn't take off points for that reason, it is something to think about next time you shoot something like this.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/25/2007 07:38:10 PM
Good photo quality, although image is title dependent.
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Sony Alpha a7R III
Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM
 01/24/2007 03:05:45 PM
One of my girlfriends was beaten up by a gang of four 'hoodies' last night - she is black and blue today. I can feel the palpable sense of fear and threat. A well staged and executed concept, and a 10 from me.
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Canon EOS-20D
Canon EF 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
 01/24/2007 12:33:18 AM
I wish the lighting was not as bright on her face. It seems a bit unrealistic. Otherwise, I love it.
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