Borrowed the masks from a friend's father, mounted them on transparent head filled with Christmas lights, backed with a sheet of white paper.
-Noise-reduction with PictureCooler
-Handheld, Shutter-Priority mode
-RGB Curve
-Red Curve
-Blue/Yellow Curve
-Resize
-Crop a bit from the bottom to eliminate wires
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 9/10 = 144kb
Links to resized shots of the setup, with and without the colored lights on:
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Based on the set-up shots it looks like the sideways facing faces were purely unintentional.
Yes! I'm so glad you spotted those -- usually I'm good at seeing the "other picture in the picture" but not this time. The actually remind me of the traditional comedy/tragedy masks seen in association with the theater industry, which was actually one of my alternate topics if I hadn't gotten hold of this one.
The other reason I cut off the nose was that it was pretty lopsided, and I didn't think I could (legally) clone it enough to straighten it out -- I try to avoid taking any liberties with the rules that other members might not get away with. :-)
"Find or create a mask, and photograph someone wearing it this week." I had to count off for the 'no wearing' part... but it's an interesting image... I wish the bottom of the mask weren't cut off.
I wish the bottom weren't cut off too, but leaving it in would have required too much cloning work to have been legal under the applicable rule set. I tried to fix these problems in the print version.
BTW: The mask is being "worn" by my vitreous friend, Professor Airhead:
Based on the set-up shots it looks like the sideways facing faces were purely unintentional. Also the lighting really looks like it's brushed paint in the submitted shot. I was one of your 7's. Good submission and very underrated IMHO. But yes, too bad you had to crop the nose. You should have hid the wires better.
"Find or create a mask, and photograph someone wearing it this week." I had to count off for the 'no wearing' part... but it's an interesting image... I wish the bottom of the mask weren't cut off.
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