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Challenge: Bad (Basic Editing*)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM
Location: Kleivarvatn, Iceland
Date: Feb 4, 2007
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/4000
Galleries: Portraiture, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Feb 6, 2007

 Think this will score about a 5.2 if I am lucky, I am honestly expecting even lower and would not be surprised to see this in the 4.xxxx range. No fault to the models though, they were great. Some of you might recognize the girl, her name is Elísabet and that is her boyfriend, Sævar. Just the weather/light wasn´t cooperating, not that I blame that, I should have known better and scheduled the photoshoot on another time of day or just taken the photos indoors in the studio. Photoshoot took about an hour and first it was cloudy, then foggy, then steam, then rained, then snowed, then strong sunlight (as in this photo) and then cloudy again right after we decided to call it quit´s for the day.

Only lighting is direct sunlight from behind and a gold reflector for fill lighting.

Don´t think I have ever spent as much time post processing a basic editing photo and really really really wanted to use advanced editing but I sat on the urge to do so, I had other plans for this in post processing but using the basic editing tools, this is the best I could do.

I used photomatrix for the first time ever to tone map the photo and tried tweaking it as much as possible, took me a while and still not happy with the results, would have wanted to to this manually but of course couldn´t since it´s basic editing. Then a lot of shadow/highlights adjustments in small steps, curves for contrast, very slight adjustment with replace color to try and darken the dress that was too bright for my taste. Channel mixer for b/w conversion, hue/saturation for sepia toning and finally sharpened and added frame after resizing. Wanted to add grain to the shot with a filter but not sure that was legal and too late to ask the SC if it is so didn´t want to take the chance, thought the photo looked better with grain though.

Statistics
Place: 5 out of 217
Avg (all users): 6.5769
Avg (commenters): 8.2500
Avg (participants): 6.0000
Avg (non-participants): 6.8203
Views since voting: 4480
Views during voting: 390
Votes: 182
Comments: 16
Favorites: 0

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Canon EOS-60D
Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
02/16/2007 09:37:32 AM
Too good....gave it a 10 during voting....:)
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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
 02/14/2007 04:02:42 PM
Great shot Larus, love the DOF and setup here. For the type of problems you were describing its a hell of a good shot. Congrats on top 5.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Carl Zeiss 50mm ZE f/1.4 Planar T for Canon
02/14/2007 12:27:47 AM
This just barely inched over your average, which is amazing since it finished in 6th place!

Message edited by author 2007-02-14 00:28:00.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/13/2007 08:41:26 PM
Cool zombie thing going on here. Very nice
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 02/13/2007 02:35:20 PM
intriguing and perhaps slightly worrying image. It certainly creates a tension.
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Sony Alpha a6000
Sony E 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 PZ OSS
 02/13/2007 06:32:47 AM
Yeah, I like it. Makes me think of the movie, "Natural Born Killers."
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 02/13/2007 05:55:07 AM
Very nice expressions,DOF & framing. 10
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Canon EOS-30D
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 02/11/2007 11:24:29 AM
I wouldn't mess with that guy... ;)
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Canon EOS-20D
Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Canon
 02/10/2007 01:47:53 AM
Nice. Razer sharp focus on the models, I'd almost prefer a little more fill light, but very striking image.
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Nikon D200
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
 02/09/2007 11:43:16 AM
Scary! The Zombies have returned? Very effective sepia..
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Canon EOS-7D
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L USM
 02/07/2007 11:30:15 PM
Wow! The lighting, DOF, costumes, pose, lines... everything...Wow! Fantastic! They certainly look bad to bone!
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Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L USM
 02/07/2007 11:14:30 PM
crazy, i really like it.
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Panasonic DMC-FZ20
 02/07/2007 07:41:23 PM
wow! what a cool photo! great use of focus, not to mention the makeup! 9
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Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
 02/07/2007 06:17:52 PM
Interesting and yet creepy shot. The DOF is pretty cool and the models just downright odd. 7 for now.
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Canon EOS-5D
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 02/07/2007 01:36:52 AM
Okay, now here's a picture with a drop of narrative!
Very well done although they do look abit like the munsters!!
7
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Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM
 02/07/2007 12:11:36 AM
IMO, the quality is too good. normally I would love this, but for this challenge it's just too nice :(
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