Aug 07 Votes

[dweekley]

Being so new at this made picking a top 5 especially difficult. I don’t feel qualified to ‘critique’, obviously some personal preference came into play. The only comment I want to make is to Splata. I liked your work overall but if I were the client I would ask for you to tone down the green of the subject’s left eye.

1. Syd
2. Lorraine
3. Graphics23
4. byRo
5. Splata


Doreen

[Syd]

Although, as many people pointed out, there was probably more restoration involved in this one than retouch, it was, nevertheless, a retouch competition so I gave extra points to those who treated it as such. In particular, I felt it important to at least address the following issues: fly-away hair, overexposed highlight above right eyebrow, reconstruction of the part of the eyebrow where information had been lost due to overexposure, neatening up of the hair and evening out of the tones on the shadow side of the face.

1. Bella
2. Jaime
3. Shalford
4. Cassidy
5. Chillin

Syd

[Lynnette]

I chose first on color, then skin texture.

1. syd - skin texture looks real - good eyebrow work
2. Lonk - great color - would like to see more color in hair
3. Splata - natural color - a little soft
4. Lorraine - skin natural looking, a little too light - flyaway hair
5. byRo - it would look better a little darker

This was hard to pick!

[oltenius]

Congrats all the posters!
My Vote:
1. Lorraine
2. Ms-Bay
3. bella
4. nancyj
5. onfocus

[Graphics23]

I based my voting on the following, eliminating each entry as it failed to meet the required tasks in the order given:

The first task was to color correct the photo. So you must have proper highlights & shadows, good mid-tone contrast, and believable colors.

Then "beauty" retouch. So you must have addressed problems such as the fly-away hairs, the blown highlights and damaged eyebrow, and overall image noise, without making the picture look like it was obviously manipulated.

Finally, it had to look nice. This was a purely subjective quality. I had to find it appealing.

So here are my votes:

1. Cassidy
2. Out_Of_Focus
3. Chillin
4. CathyH
5. cazubi

With honorable mention going out to jaime, nancyj, and emilylt87. I thought each of these entries were very good.

Good luck to all,

Michael

[deepti shukla]

1. Lorraine
2. syd
3. Cassidy
4. Out_of_Focus
5. Shalford

[byRo]

Interesting how the votes are spread out. Personal taste certainly does vary - a lot.

To my taste....:
1) Lonk
2) syd
3) splata
4) Lorraine
5) Cassidy

Rô

[Photomaster]

I had a chance to view the entries on three different monitors, 2 lcd's and one crt, with each set to a different resolution and utilizing different color spaces. Monitor settings certainly have a dramatic effect on the appearance of a photograph. What looks good on one monitor may look "not so good" on another monitor and vice versa. To those who are destined to be "also rans", take heart, your work may be better than what another's perception may indicate. Here are the entries that looked the best on my monitor:

1. Lorraine
2. Cassidy
3. Chillin
4. Shalford
5. byRo

Thanks to all who entered and helped to make this competition a lot of fun.

[cazubi]

Here are my votes:
1. syd
2. byRo
3. cassidy
4. splata
5. Lorraine

[emilylt87]

Here are my votes:
1. bella
2. irab3rd
3. Syd
4. irshgrlkc
5. CathyH

[LonK]

1. syd
2. Out_Of_Focus
3. splata
4. Chillin
5. bella

[Jaime]

1. byRo
2. Syd
3. Graphics23
4. Chillin
5. Photomaster

[Shalford]

1. Sid
2. Lorraine
3. Out_of_Focus
4. ByRo
5. Splata

[Peter S]

Difficult to do this contest (Ant would disagee), very difficult to choose 5

1 photomaster
2 byro
3 syd
4 lonk
5 splata

[T Paul]

Voting is closed. Note the votes after the deadline of 5pm EDT 31 August 2007 will not count.