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somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence
purpleflutterby13


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Hair (Expert Editing*)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix F30
Location: Edinburgh
Date: Apr 13, 2007
Aperture: 3.2
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/240
Galleries: Emotive, Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Apr 13, 2007

 Self-portrait. Oddly enough, taking the picture made me happier.

It was inspired by this image:

Editing: crop, desat using channel mixer (followed by messing around with the layer mask to bring back some colour), hue/sat, brightness/contrast, warming filter, levels, curves, neat image, usm, removed some stray hairs using a healing brush, selective colour, a bit of dodging and burning. Probably not in that order.
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Post-challenge:

Here's the poem attached (by orders from our Fearless Leader):

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

- ee cummings

Statistics
Place: 83 out of 170
Avg (all users): 5.5778
Avg (commenters): 6.8000
Avg (participants): 5.0896
Avg (non-participants): 5.7389
Views since voting: 1878
Views during voting: 401
Votes: 270
Comments: 21
Favorites: 0

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 09/19/2007 12:27:21 PM
Beautiful and moving. I love the way there are both warm and cold color tones here... the silvery, misty chill of the background entwining in the hair with warmer brown colors and the vivid eyes. Entrancing.
SPLENDID work!
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Canon EOS-7D
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 05/07/2007 02:13:41 PM
Beautiful shot...very well done
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM
 04/29/2007 04:34:54 PM
This is an arresting shot, very nice close-up, and I like the added detail of what appears to be a bridge leading off into the background. Not sure how well you achieved the challenge, as others have noted, the hair doesn't seem to dominate as the "theme" of the image - but as an image, regardless of the challenge, I think it's very well done.
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Canon EOS-60D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 04/29/2007 05:13:39 AM
This is a really good shot IMO. I think the only reason that you didn't finish higher up the tree is because of what your first comment mentioned - you look at the shot and you can think a lot of things, but not many of those thoughts are "hair" related. Would have been interesting to see how this did in the free study.
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Canon EOS-60D
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 04/25/2007 01:16:45 PM
great shot and you did good.
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Canon EOS-60D
Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM
 04/25/2007 09:04:08 AM
Aweee I'm honored that you were inspired by my image. I'm so glad shooting this made you feel better. Its funny how acknowledging our emotions makes them easier to deal with. Great finish on this one. :)
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Nikon D7200
Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G
 04/25/2007 08:09:46 AM
Hey Purple, nice job. I like the composition and the mood.
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Panasonic DMC-FZ8
 04/25/2007 02:04:05 AM
I think if you'd smoothed out the skin 100% you might have gotten comments saying it looked too neat imaged. I love it as-is... actually really was impressed during voting by the texture of the skin. Looked very awesome to me.
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Nikon D200
Nikon MF 105mm f/2.5 AIS
 04/25/2007 12:23:17 AM
A very good expression and pose. Wonderful picture. Very sultry and serious at the same time.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Panasonic DMC-FZ8
 04/24/2007 05:57:58 PM
What amazing eyes. 10.
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Canon EOS-20D
Tamron AF 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di II for Canon
 04/24/2007 11:19:33 AM
Moody and impactful portrait. Would make great poster art for a horror/mystery genre movie.
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Samsung TL500
04/24/2007 07:10:07 AM
beautiful, mysterious, enchanting 8 not 9 because you should have smoothed the skin to fully enhance the mood
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Nikon Coolpix S3
 04/23/2007 11:47:42 AM
Nice image. I like the contrast between the brown eyes and brown hair..it makes those two things really stand out against the soft skin.
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Canon EOS-6D Mark II
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 04/22/2007 03:53:32 PM
While this is not a particularly "WOW" type image - there is something about it that captures my attention. Maybe the softness, maybe the gaze, maybe the muted color. I dunno. For some reason I just really like it. Good luck with it. :)
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Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 04/21/2007 07:38:22 PM
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands
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Canon EOS-20D
Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
 04/20/2007 01:05:51 AM
A very unique photo. I love how the composition is creative and appealing even though over 50% of the image is hair.
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Canon EOS-50D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 04/19/2007 09:55:03 PM
wow! lovely! 7
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Canon EOS-50D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 04/19/2007 03:53:01 PM
Something about her bothers me...almost like they aren't even hers...gives the photo an eerie look.
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Canon EOS-20D
Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
 04/18/2007 10:32:13 PM
She looks sad and desperate. You can see the pores on her nose
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Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 28-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 04/18/2007 06:54:15 PM
I don't know what the title means, but it looks like you were going somewhere with the de-saturation of the background. It looks like the top of her head has been de-saturated too.
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Nikon D200
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
 04/18/2007 06:38:21 PM
Nice image, but when I see it I don't think "hair".
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