Processed from RAW in Wukong Beta, exported to CS3, shadow/highlight, hue/sat, select BG and gaussian blur, resize, hi pass sharpening, border, save for web
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Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium":
...An aged man is but a paltry thing,
a tattered cloak upon a stick, unless
soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
for every tatter in its mortal dress...
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Place: 85 out of 156 Avg (all users): 5.5000 Avg (commenters): 6.2500 Avg (participants): 5.3226 Avg (non-participants): 5.5797 Views since voting: 1840 Views during voting: 469 Votes: 200 Comments: 15 Favorites: 0
Really great processing. I love the ghostly shadow that surrounds the entire hand. I think many did not see the beauty in this image. I disagree with the comment by Juli about the halo. I think that is part of why I like the image so much.
I see a long life and one child ;) The halo is distracting for me. Often when I use a strong gausian blur on a background, I go around the outer edge of the subject with the clone tool.
It's so difficult to judge whether or not processing is overdone - for me you've gone a couple of steps too far. The haloing gives the game away and detracts from the strength of the image.
I wasn't sure how I felt about this shot at first... is it real, or Memorex?
That is an incredible hand with a life time of messages in every crease. I have to go down as saying that it is a very powerful shot, great detail, well done 10
DPC is going to need a collective bath after all of the dirty bdy parts that I have voted on this far. This is one of the better ones, but to be perfectly honest I am just tired of voting on dirty hands and that is why I can only give it a 6.
Wow, a fairly confronting look at aging. Although not a hugely appealing image, great job on accentuating all those lines. The editing though has left a strange fuzzy halo along all the edges.
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