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Challenge: Portrait of a Camera (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Sigma 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS for Nikon
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Date: May 18, 2008
Aperture: f/ 8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/8 sec.
Galleries: Still Life, Advertisement
Date Uploaded: May 18, 2008

 A Portrait of my Nikon D70s on a double peacock background which I'm almost cetain will be called distracting and, perhaps, over saturated. Well it turn it out much as I concieved it so I'll take the lumps....I always do.

I made the NBC like peacock bacground out of tissue paper. It's all put together with masking tape on the back. I was quite happy with how it turned out. On Friday, I went to the Pure Design, my florist, and bought some flowers and 5 peacock feathers that were relatively short in length. I took the feathers and stuck them in a piece of green block and set it on a box under the black velvet and the rainbow background. I put a piece of poster board under the black velvet and attached the rainbow background to it with thumb tacks. I set the camera on the box in front of the peacock feathers.

I used only two clamp lamps to light this, both above and in front of the set up. Camera on tripod and cable remote.

Hope it doesn't fare to badly but hey, I gave it a go.

Post: Camera Raw adjustments in PSElements 6.0, Convert to jpeg. Layer adjustments for levels, brightness/contrast and hue/saturation. USM (15/50/0). Shadows and Highlights. Clone/Spot Healed camera lens. Layer of Hue/Sat. Made a layer mask of the camera. Dup Layer, gaussian blue 16 pixels 40% opacity on the entire background. Another layer of Hue/sat. Select inverse and applied Power Retouche Dynamic Range Compressor to the camera. Selected inverse and applied Kyoto Color, for, of all things, additionsl saturation, normal blend mode, 63% opacity. Merged down and cropped 4 times. Some slight sharpening of the entire image. Resize. Sharpen.

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Canon EOS-50D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 05/25/2008 11:06:40 PM
the front of the lens looks a little dirty
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Canon EOS-7D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 05/25/2008 10:25:37 PM
the camera seems very dusty
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III
Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO
 05/23/2008 11:51:01 PM
Reminds me a little of the NBC peacock. a good idea, but the image seems a little grainy, and the folds in the fabric (or is that paper?) are a problem.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/22/2008 07:29:57 PM
This reminds me of the old Nikon commercials from the late 70s early 80s. Could be a bit crisper especially with such drastically bright colors.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Apple iPhone 7
Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L USM
 05/20/2008 09:07:07 PM
A neat idea. I think a tighter crop would have made it more effective, and dramatic.
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Nikon D40
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6G IF-ED VR
 05/19/2008 04:22:58 PM
Everybody experimenting with purple, hmm.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Sony DSC-W55
 05/19/2008 10:57:15 AM
well, I cant say there is not enough color!! :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 05/19/2008 12:23:36 AM
interesting idea, lighting could be better
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