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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Slobodan Blagojevic on October 31, 2010, 10:00:38 pm

Title: Alpha Male
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on October 31, 2010, 10:00:38 pm: A friend at a Halloween party. Canon G10 at 1600 ISO, 1/5 sec, handheld.

Happy Halloween!
Title: Re: Alpha Male
Post by: Paul Sumi on October 31, 2010, 11:49:23 pm: Nice double meaning ;)
Title: Re: Alpha Male
Post by: popnfresh on November 01, 2010, 12:18:57 am: Very well done. The lighting is just right for the subject.
Title: Re: Alpha Male
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on November 01, 2010, 12:21:30 am: Quote from: Paul Sumi on October 31, 2010, 11:49:23 pm
Nice double meaning ;)

Glad you caught it!
Title: Re: Alpha Male
Post by: Paul Sumi on November 01, 2010, 12:51:59 am: BTW, that image is pretty clean for ISO 1600 on the G10. Did you do anything special in post-processing?

Paul
Title: Re: Alpha Male
Post by: wolfnowl on November 01, 2010, 01:08:24 am: Quote
Nice double meaning

Cute! But shouldn' that be 'α male'?

Mike.
Title: Re: Alpha Male
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on November 01, 2010, 01:12:37 am: Quote from: Paul Sumi on November 01, 2010, 12:51:59 am
BTW, that image is pretty clean for ISO 1600 on the G10. Did you do anything special in post-processing?...

Yes: noise reduction is kept at only 10 (in LR3), to preserve detail… however, given that shadows are totally unimportant in this type of shot, blacks are ramped up to 50… that kills shadow noise almost completely… and lastly, the window did not have to be sharp at all, so I used a gradient filter with sharpness set to −100 (thus acting as a lens blur, blurring the noise as well)…
Title: Re: Alpha Male
Post by: Rob C on November 01, 2010, 06:25:25 am: Whiiiieeeeeeeew!

What was that just flew right over my head?

That extra hour in bed today has blown my circuits. I had to get up and check with the computer that today was today. Then I crawled back to bed and waited pointlessly for another hour.

;-(

Rob C
Title: Re: Alpha Male
Post by: tokengirl on November 01, 2010, 05:50:37 pm: Nice! I had always thought ISO 1600 was pretty much unusable on the G10, but I guess it just requires a little extra effort in post. Good work.
Title: Re: Alpha Male
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on November 02, 2010, 05:52:35 pm: Quote from: tokengirl on November 01, 2010, 05:50:37 pm
Nice! I had always thought ISO 1600 was pretty much unusable on the G10, but I guess it just requires a little extra effort in post. Good work.

How about this one, though at 800 ISO (also G10, and also an "alpha male", in his own time):
Title: Re: Alpha Male
Post by: JohnKoerner on November 02, 2010, 09:16:21 pm: Both the top shot and the bottom shot are excellent IMO, doubly-so that they were taken with a G10 @ high ISO.

I especially like the bottom shot.

Jack

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Title: Re: Alpha Male
Post by: RSL on November 03, 2010, 10:33:54 am: That's a very fine portrait, Slobodan. Bravo!
Title: Re: Alpha Male
Post by: David Saffir on November 03, 2010, 04:00:38 pm: I like this image a lot, particularly the one-sided "hatchet" lighting. The subject's expression is very cool. I suggest just one thing - try burning in the the background over the subjects right shoulder (our left) as that can be a bit of a distraction.

David

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