Challenge: Double Take (Advanced Editing V)
Collection: Challenge Entries
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
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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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