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Night Vision Glasses - A gift only a Dad would love
Night Vision Glasses - A gift only a Dad would love
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Challenge: Stupid Gifts (Advanced Editing V*)
Collection: 2007 Challenges
Camera: Nikon D70
Lens: Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f2.8D
Location: Home
Date: Dec 25, 2007
Aperture: F3.3
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/160
Galleries: Humorous, Self Portrait
Date Uploaded: Dec 25, 2007

 A gift from my son. Actually, a gift my son got for himself...I know he bought them for himself but he decided to 'give' them to me for Christmas. I actually think they are pretty hilarious and he looks great in them! They blink on and off - limiting my wear time to about 30 seconds before I am ready to fall over from vertigo...

Shot in Raw in my new home studio light set up (new lights for Christmas! - Thanks to my wife).

Opened in CS2 - adjusted exposure, curves, save. Opened JPEG in Elements 3.0. Adjusted levels, hue saturation (masked out glasses), noise ninja, USM at large radius, save for web. Opened resized image, blurred and cloned right glass reflection to remove dot. Burned background, USM at small radius, a bit of dodging and cloning on my face to get rid of some of my imperfections - but I still had to show my face, so i couldn't get rid of all of them.... save.

I figure mid 5s for this - i don't have an especially photogenic face and it is a bit of a 'set up' shot. I fund it funny, but I am not sure it comes off as a funny image to others - hopefully the title will help!

Statistics
Place: 26 out of 111
Avg (all users): 6.0041
Avg (commenters): 6.8000
Avg (participants): 5.7358
Avg (non-participants): 6.0789
Views since voting: 3726
Views during voting: 421
Votes: 243
Comments: 13
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Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
 01/05/2008 05:30:45 AM
Peter....I thought this was what all Nikon users looked like permanently!

A great fun photo, I love the outstanding depth and vibrancy of the red that you achieved on the desat, which works fantastically given the richness of the tomes of the black and white portion of the shot

This shot just made me laugh out loud when I saw it during scoring...Your steadfast expression is priceless given your accessory!

Nice start to the year
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Canon EOS-5D
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 01/03/2008 08:03:28 AM
Peter, the shot made it above six! way to go!
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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 01/03/2008 12:08:37 AM
Absolutely funny! Glad to see the sense of humor isn't isolated. How fun that the "stupid" gift was taken with the help of a great gift!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon EOS-50D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 01/02/2008 08:43:48 PM
Love the selective desat
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Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 01/02/2008 04:44:35 PM
Nice editing..
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Olympus OM-D E-M1
Olympus 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO M.Zuiko
 01/02/2008 04:22:50 AM
Ohhh - are the X-Ray glasses too? I need me some of them!
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Pentax K10D
Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF
 01/01/2008 03:23:17 PM
Wow! aren't you quite the SPECTACLE! :} Great Selective Desat,...by the way! :)
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Nikon D300s
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 12/31/2007 06:17:45 PM
looks very 50s sci-fi. i'm not sure about the white speck on the lens, but i would think it would be easy to fix if you'd wanted to. /10
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Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Sigma 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Macro
 12/29/2007 09:44:37 PM
really cool glasses and a great shot, love the choice of color
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Nikon Coolpix L10
 12/29/2007 02:05:32 AM
those light up those arent night vison glasses i got them for my little brother when he was 9.
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Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III
Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO
 12/28/2007 08:44:19 PM
Very cool. It goes nicely with the eyes in the back of the head.
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Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 12/28/2007 11:33:25 AM
I think DoF is too shallow here.... It does not include all this really useful night vision glasse. PP is very good.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L IS USM
 12/27/2007 01:49:39 AM
matrix in red.
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