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2008 March Pow Wow No. 7 (56)
scobert
![Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1636 W: 16 N: 1867]](http://i1.trekearth.com/misc/g-s-g.gif) (5327) | I posted a scanned photo last night and I had to delete it for a repost in the future due to some oversharpening artifacts. It wasn't doing as well as I thought because it was taken in 1993 and people have the ridiculous notion that old is "bad" and new is "good". If I could someday take a portrait 1/4 as good as 19th century American photographer Edward Curtis (a Native American "documentary" photographer) I would be very pleased. He was as "low-tech" as you could get and he died broke and dispirited. Now some of his originals are worth well over $100,000. He is my favorite photographer of all time.
This nice young teenage Native American girl was kind enough to pose for me in front of a very dark background. I underexposed the ambient light by two stops and used fill-flash for "exposure compensation" (fill flash always adds some sparkle to the eyes also). The people are very nice at this event and it is as safe and family friendly as you can find anywhere. The background was mostly black and I only deleted a few background distractions.
I recieved some feedback about how the dress appears to be sharper than the subject's face. Human faces are the toughest type of photos of all to sharpen and to resize for a small web image. I sharpened the subject's face slightly and added a WS photo. The WS photo looks it has a little too much noise, IMO. Please give me your opinion. Thanks. |
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