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08-26-2007, 05:30 PM
| | Member Patron | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: St. Croix USVI
Posts: 51
| | | Re: Aug 07 Votes 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 | 
08-28-2007, 01:07 AM
| | Senior Member | | Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 267
| | | Re: Aug 07 Votes 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 | 
08-28-2007, 11:19 PM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: NE Iowa
Posts: 6
| | | Re: Aug 07 Votes 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! | 
08-29-2007, 02:47 AM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Romania
Posts: 395
| | | Re: Aug 07 Votes Congrats all the posters!
My Vote:
1. Lorraine
2. Ms-Bay
3. bella
4. nancyj
5. onfocus | 
08-29-2007, 06:15 AM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Lynn, Massachusetts
Posts: 108
| | | Re: Aug 07 Votes 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 | 
08-30-2007, 12:22 AM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 2
| | Re: Aug 07 Votes 1. Lorraine
2. syd
3. Cassidy
4. Out_of_Focus
5. Shalford | 
08-30-2007, 11:00 AM
|  | Moderator | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Goiânia, Brazil
Posts: 1,549
| | | Re: Aug 07 Votes 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 | 
08-30-2007, 03:05 PM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Minnesota
Posts: 235
| | | Re: Aug 07 Votes 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. | 
08-31-2007, 11:06 AM
|  | Senior Member Patron | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Los Angeles area
Posts: 353
| | | Re: Aug 07 Votes Here are my votes:
1. syd
2. byRo
3. cassidy
4. splata
5. Lorraine | 
08-31-2007, 12:26 PM
| | Member | | Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 70
| | | Re: Aug 07 Votes Here are my votes:
1. bella
2. irab3rd
3. Syd
4. irshgrlkc
5. CathyH | 
08-31-2007, 12:58 PM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: austin.tx.usa
Posts: 420
| | | Re: Aug 07 Votes 1. syd
2. Out_Of_Focus
3. splata
4. Chillin
5. bella | 
08-31-2007, 05:46 PM
| | Member | | Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 67
| | | Re: Aug 07 Votes 1. byRo
2. Syd
3. Graphics23
4. Chillin
5. Photomaster | 
08-31-2007, 06:13 PM
| | Member | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Solihull - United Kingdom
Posts: 65
| | | Re: Aug 07 Votes 1. Sid
2. Lorraine
3. Out_of_Focus
4. ByRo
5. Splata | 
08-31-2007, 07:24 PM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: UK
Posts: 1,587
| | | Re: Aug 07 Votes Difficult to do this contest (Ant would disagee), very difficult to choose 5
1 photomaster
2 byro
3 syd
4 lonk
5 splata | 
09-01-2007, 11:44 AM
|  | Moderator | | Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: USA
Posts: 2,579
| | | Re: Aug 07 Votes Voting is closed. Note the votes after the deadline of 5pm EDT 31 August 2007 will not count. |
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