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Guinness gives you strength
Guinness gives you strength
pcrymble


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Strength (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Nikon D70
Location: Belfast, N.Ireland
Date: Apr 12, 2004
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 250
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Portraiture, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Apr 12, 2004

 Wanted to play on the old slogan for guinness - 'guinness is good for you' and 'guinness gives you strength'. Both slogans are probably totally rubbish and I myself am not a fan of the black stuff.

Anyway, really missed not having a seperate flash for this one. So excuse the shadow/reflections. Added noise to make it look more 'under ground' and to hide some of the flash stuff.

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04/20/2004 04:36:17 PM
very grainey
Canon PowerShot G5
 04/19/2004 07:05:54 AM
Nice idea, appears to have a lot of noise to replicate grain, which works well in the foreground not so well on the face.
Canon EOS-50D
Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS
 04/17/2004 02:12:32 PM
Needs more focus and maybe a different angle.
Nikon D90
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 04/17/2004 12:54:34 PM
The graininess doesn’t quite do it form me.
Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II
 04/15/2004 02:31:19 PM
Noise is really bad in this image. Wish I could offer a good solution, but being new at this myself I'm not too sure what the solution is.
Pentax K10D
Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF
 04/15/2004 02:24:03 PM
Nice effect, but I think you needed the can to be more obviously crumpled.
Minolta DiMAGE 7Hi
 04/15/2004 01:18:18 PM
Cool concept, but photo is a bit noisy ... low light?
Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 04/15/2004 12:03:15 PM
well composed, nice tones, I think that the grain effect works quite well too, reminds me of the actual old Guinness adverts (UK) from the television with the old Italian man who is the champion swimmer. Good luck with the challenge.
 04/15/2004 01:05:33 AM
it gave her something . . .
 04/14/2004 11:16:10 PM
I like her expression and the crunched can. I really don't like the title though.
Canon PowerShot G5
 04/14/2004 08:10:59 AM
even though it's sidestepping the theme a bit, this works well. Nice DOF.
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