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The Serial Shearer Strikes Again
The Serial Shearer Strikes Again
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Challenge: Enemies (Basic Editing)
Camera: Kodak Z730
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
Location: bathroom of my apartment, Richmond ky
Date: Jun 2, 2009
Aperture: 4.0
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/25
Date Uploaded: Jun 2, 2009

 shot in the bathroom, noise reduction and white balance.
Bathroom lighting is so bad but the best location for some one to be caught of guard by the Serial Shearer


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Apple iPhone 16 Pro
Sony Sonnar T* FE 35mm f/2.8 ZA
 06/16/2009 12:53:45 AM
Greetings from the Critique Club

I'm not sure how much I need to critique this image, as Lutchenko seems to have done a pretty good job already !

There is not much I can add to his comments, other than this really does have a snapshot feel to it, even though it is clearly a set up image. The white balance seems to be off, which can be fixed in post processing. Also, the image size is very small, at 500 pixels. Try utilising the full size allowance of 640, it may make a difference.

Tutorial on image resizing for DPC

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Nikon D80
 06/08/2009 08:00:43 PM
Funny, but weird
Nikon D700
Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro for Nikon
 06/05/2009 05:38:54 AM
A funny and interesting take on the challenge.
Regarding the photography here are my comments.

Watchout for distracting things in the background like the shower curtain and towel etc as it tends to
draw the eye away from the main subject.

I would be tempted to crop out the towel and more of the hand.

Also I don't know if you have photoshop but desaturating the yellow channel removes most of the shower curtain as a distraction.
Now if that curtain is actually white then you may have a white balance issue in as far as it shoild be adjusted to suit the lighting condition, ie if you were using the regular lightbulb in the room simply set it to incandescent.

Finally I don't know if you intended to use a shallow depth of field but whilst the clippers are in focus the face of the victim lol is not suficiently out of focus to suggest to me at least that this was your intention.

I had a quick play with it and am happy to send the result to you if you like.

Anyway that's my input all the best with the challenge... 6 from me
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Canon EOS-1D Mark III
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
 06/04/2009 12:29:48 AM
Love the expression. That is too funny.
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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 06/03/2009 04:16:48 AM
Great idea!
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