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Challenge: Double Take (Advanced Editing V)
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Camera: Pentax K100D
Lens: Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 EX DC for Pentax
Location: Chinatown, San Francisco
Date: May 31, 2007
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/180
Galleries: Urban, Candid
Date Uploaded: Jun 2, 2007

 Walking around Chinatown on my lunch hour, I walked past this group of four demonstrating their yoga practice, maintaining great concentration amid crowds of locals and tourists bustling by. I did a double take, snapped a quick pick from above as I walked past, then stopped, backed up a few steps, kneeled down across from them on the sidewalk, and snapped this off. Neither of these women noticed, but another, younger one standing to the left out of the frame started giving me the eye, so I stopped after this one shot.

I was a bit hurried, as I did not want to intrude or seem insensitive, so the focus was slightly off ... the autofocus grabbed the fence instead of the faces. I fixed that with some strong USM (150/1.0 on the first pass), then masked out the foreground and applied a 7.5 gaussian blur to the background.

The rest of the adjustments were pretty minor ... slight midtone adjustment in levels, small boost in contrast, lightness, brightness and saturation. Resize, another USM, border, and S4W. IMGP 4041-edit3-640

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Nikon Z9
Nikon AF Nikkor 20mm f/2.8D
 06/16/2007 07:48:16 PM
I knew this was your image Dennis when I saw it listed under "Your Teammates photos." during voting. I wish I could have voted on it because I would have given it high marks!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Pentax K7
Pentax FA 77mm f/1.8 Limited AF
 06/09/2007 06:48:57 PM
This would be even better I think if the crop took off more of the left hand side so they'd appear to be the same distance from their respective edges of the photo.
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Nikon D70
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
 06/05/2007 09:12:45 PM
i like the dof a lot, very good capture.
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Canon EOS-7D
Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 DC Macro for Canon
 06/04/2007 08:37:18 AM
Nicely balanced. I'm wondering if it might not have had even further impact if done in black and white. There are so many colours... hmm just thinking out loud.
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