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Challenge: Street Portraiture (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Berkeley, California, USA
Date: Jul 3, 2010
Aperture: 3.51
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/251
Galleries: Portraiture, Street
Date Uploaded: Jul 4, 2010

 When I was walking down the other side of the street (Telegraph Avenue), and past this fellow in a blue-sequined top hat sitting in a doorway, he said "Hey, I like your camera," so it only seemed fitting that I would try and capture him for this challenge. Somewhat unfortunately, he was sitting in a shadowed doorway, but at least the light was pretty even.

The challenge description seems to require an image in the style of a formal portrait, while still being taken in a candid situation. I shot this from across the street -- waiting for a break in the traffic (both pedestrian and automobile), and for him to look in my direction. My goal was to make it look like an old-fashioned, hand-tinted print from maybe the late 1800's -- I didn't try to "correct" the noise/grain or soft-focus ...

-Handheld, Manual mode, Auto WB
-RGB Curve
-Create feathered oval selections
-RGB Curves through selections to vignette/fade background
-RGB and Blue/Yellow Curve through inverted selection to adjust contrast of subject
-Hue/Sat/Lightness through inverted selection to desaturate reds and greens
-Crop
-Resize
-Local Dodging/Burning and local sharpening to eyes/facial features
-A little cloning to restore color texture to blown highlight on forearm
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 278KB

Statistics
Place: 90 out of 94
Avg (all users): 4.5031
Avg (commenters): 5.0000
Avg (participants): 4.1875
Avg (non-participants): 4.6396
Views since voting: 1074
Views during voting: 344
Votes: 159
Comments: 8
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Nikon D7000
Nikon AF-S DX 18-105 f/3.5-5.6 ED VR
 07/12/2010 02:19:45 AM
This is very individual and I like it.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Apple iPhone Xr
 07/11/2010 11:32:31 PM
Interesting choice of going with the purple tones. IMHO, I think if you had gone with a sepia treatment, it may work with the grain for an antique look. Anyways, this popped out for me cuz the guy looks like a modern day Billy the Kid [in New Orleans with the beads :) ] Good luck with the voting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-1000D Rebel XS
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
 07/11/2010 06:31:23 PM
Not sure what is going on above his right eye. The image is also noisy.
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Sony DSLR-A100
Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical ED
 07/11/2010 04:23:39 AM
very nice!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Sigma DP1x
07/09/2010 05:45:18 PM
Artistic -- maybe a little overdone. His left eye looks like it's had a bit too much doctoring...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D7200
Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G
 07/07/2010 12:58:19 PM
I really like the processing on this.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS R6
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM
 07/06/2010 10:02:52 PM
Sorry, but I don't like the processing on this one.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III
Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO
 07/05/2010 12:09:53 AM
The treatment has something of an old time hand colored appearance to it. The eyes are a bit oversharp and appear a little out of place with the rest of the shot.
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