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Challenge: Duotones IV (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D300
Lens: Nikon AF Nikkor 35mm f/2.0D
Location: The roof on my old school
Date: Jun 13, 2009
Aperture: f/20
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/125
Date Uploaded: Jun 14, 2009

 Title is a Catwoman qoute. She looks kinda Catwoman, don't you think? Hehe =)

Well, my best produced photo yet. My trustworthy girlfriend agreed to model for me again, and you can't fail with a model like her (I have to write that since she's going to read the image description sooner or later)! So here's the photo, I hope it will do good because we worked our ar**s off for this one.

We climbed the roof on my old school to have our little photoshoot. We did not have permission or anything, so both of us had the "burglarish breaking and entry" look. Adding some fashionableish black make-up, and we were good to go!

The lighting setup was my most challenging yet (alot of yets around today). I wanted a dramatic sky, thus the low aperture, so I fixed two SB units on my model. One 900 (flash from hell...) bouncing off an umbrella to light her face, and a 800 (awesome flash as well!!!) to add some light on her (lack of a better word) backside. I don't think her one displayed shoe wouldn've been visible otherwise. Anyway, gotta love Nikons CLS system!

Post production was fairly simple. All starting with RAW:
WB slightly adjusted
Contrast
Brightness
Open in CS3
Cloned out dust
Reduce Noise and sharpened with the Neatimage plug in
Changed to 8-bit
Grayscale
Duotone
Blue tone (pantone reflex C)
Cropped
Resized
Gaussian blur
Save for web

That was it! Good luck to myself

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Nikon D7200
Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G
 07/24/2010 09:58:42 AM
I like the high key look.
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Nikon D800
Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 28-70mm f/2.8D IF-ED
 11/30/2009 05:38:19 PM
Really cool heist image, and great duotone. Her expression is perfect.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Leica SL
Voigtlander Ultron 35mm f/1.7 Aspherical MF Wide Angle - Black
 11/30/2009 03:58:34 PM
Really great sky and I love the right eye! Works well with the duotone too.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/26/2009 12:23:12 AM
this is very interesting.
the sky looks amazing
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-550D Rebel T2i
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 III
 06/22/2009 02:51:28 PM
Interesting staging and excellent distribution of light/shadows. Nicely done!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 06/21/2009 07:22:57 PM
I really enjoy this bizarre image with so much dark space and a reference in the title I don't understand. Works for me!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D750
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 06/18/2009 08:52:44 PM
from the dark side.....hmmm Excellent focus great tone
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-7D
Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 DC Macro for Canon
 06/18/2009 03:24:54 PM
LOL great title. Nice use of light and shadow and invisible diagonal line.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Fujifilm X-Pro3
Fujifilm XF 23mm f/2 R WR
 06/17/2009 07:18:53 PM
windy title aside, nice toning and super concept
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
 06/16/2009 08:53:26 PM
Overall it's a bit too dark for me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Fujifilm X-Pro 1
Fujifilm XF 18mm f/2 Lens X-Pro1
 06/15/2009 04:50:26 AM
Dark and mysterious! : )
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