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Big Mistake!
Big Mistake!
giantmike

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Challenge: After The Party (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-50D
Lens: Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
Location: Madison, WI
Date: Jan 31, 2012
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/100
Date Uploaded: Jan 31, 2012

 Most of my ideas for this challenge revolved around trash, empty bowls, or cleaning up. But I didn't really like those ideas. They didn't have anything original to them, especially after the recent "Garbage" challenge. So I was going to skip this challenge until one night while trying to fall asleep after a middle of the night Cody feeding. Suddenly the idea popped into my head to do something in the "oops, did I just sleep with that person" realm.

So the night of the deadline, my wife was at a massage. After putting Cody down for bed I started setting up in our bedroom. I put the camera on a tripod at the end of the bed. A flash shooting through an umbrella was camera left (by about 2 meters) and about 7 feet in the air. Another flash was setup to shoot through a 5-in-1 reflector from camera right (about 1.5 meters). This flash was more to open the shadows on my face, so it was set a bit lower power than the other flash.

So my wife gets home, and I propose the idea to her. She thinks I'm slightly cooky, but goes for it (and even says it could be fun). So we hop in bed, and take a number of photos with different expressions until we got one we both really liked.

Post Processing:
* Crop
* Straighten
* Retouch a bunch of red spots on my arm
* Skin smooth my wife's face a little bit
* Liquify my wife's chin and arm to do a little "tucking" - this is the first time I have used this tool, at my wife's request...
* Topaz Adjust 5 - here I added the warmth, slight vignette, and drama to he lighting
* Export as TIFF
* Resize
* Sharpen Edges
* Save as JPEG

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Place: 13 out of 61
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Ricoh GR III
Pentax DA 18-135mm F3.5-5.6ED AL [IF] WR DC
 02/08/2012 08:22:11 PM
ya, it's funny.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 02/07/2012 09:05:54 PM
ok, you made me laugh. I bet the photoshoot was a blast! 7
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Sony SLT-A33
Sony DT 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 SAM
02/07/2012 01:59:38 PM
The expressions are great. Colors however are a bit dull. I think a different comforter could have made a big difference.
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Canon EOS-60D
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 02/02/2012 11:26:47 AM
haha! Nice exposure and colour.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark IV
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS II USM Lens
 02/01/2012 06:33:05 PM
Yikes! A bit staged, but I like it. 9
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Nikon D750
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
 02/01/2012 12:28:03 PM
Awesome acting, here. Very funny. Nice, clean styling and set-up. Just a bit more contrast to make the subjects pop. Funny!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D3000
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm f/4G ED VR
 02/01/2012 09:38:51 AM
lol
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Nikon D90
Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED VR
 02/01/2012 12:38:57 AM
ROFLMAO!!! Too Good!
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