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Kate by Candlelight
Kate by Candlelight
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Image Grain II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: My kitchen
Date: Mar 9, 2007
Aperture: f/1.8
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 1/60s
Galleries: Portraiture, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Mar 11, 2007

 Photo of my beautiful girlfriend (Kate) shot handheld. Lighting is a single candle raised up to a suitable height with the tiniest amount of ambient from the next room. The combination of ISO1600 and pushing nearly two stops in RAW conversion provided PLENTY of noise :). Resizing down (there's no crop here) left me with just the right amount.

Lightroom: RAW import, B&W conversion
PSE5: Levels, resize, sharpen, border, SFW

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Kodak C875
 03/19/2007 11:32:59 AM
The girl's face is very intense, but the lighting seems sort of harsh and the coloring is somewhat dull.
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Canon EOS-7D
Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS
 03/18/2007 11:12:02 PM
Nice lighting
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Nikon D300
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6G VR
 03/15/2007 11:13:09 PM
Low level lighting produced a mild overall grain to this image that is complimentary to the total quality of this capture, Very Nice
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