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Yet another spontaneous portrait! taken a few weeks back at a little mini festval in my city. We went to watch Vive La Fete.Model: ~Bix2
Note: I give ~VintageVision permission to display this deviation in the club's gallery
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I love it, it reminds me of World War II France for some reason... The only real complaint I have is that the levels could use some tweaking, and the picture is a bit too blurry. Other than that, great work!
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Thanks, I indeed wanted to create an old-looking film style thingy.
What would you change with the levels?
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I'd adjust it a little so the skin is a bit more brighter in order for it to stand out more.
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I hate myself now for not saving psd's (but only the original files and the final ones all in .jpg ofcourse) -_-'
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Well, you could always adjust the levels from the jpeg itself, shouldn't be too bad.
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Editing a .jpg and saving it again as a .jpg gives you a lot of visible compression
Maybe I will play some more with it in the future
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I'm not particularly good at critiquing photos, but I'm in it for the critique.
Even though the photo is good quality, the woman's face seems sort of out of focus and a bit blurry around the edges of her face and hair, though this isn't noticable in full view.
I'm not one for black-and-white photography, but this is a great picture overall.
By the way, as someone who's experienced in non-color photography, what is the exact difference between black-and-white and grayscale? Or are they synonyms?
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Think the blurryness has to do with me adding some vignetting ^^
greyscale is a photoshop term for when you remove the colors from a photo to obtain a black-white version.
Real black-white photography as shot on a film roll show more contrast, the difference between white <> black is much bigger.
A greyscale photo has more shades of grey between the two colors.
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Really nice vintage feel - just like you were going for! I love the framing and simple composition here.
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sweet! Thanks for the comment
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lovely shot (i actually like the grain and the blur.. gives it a cinematic look).. beautiful model..
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Thats why I like at aswell
Added who the model is
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Well, where to start.
I know you like critique, so here we go.
The photo is both grainy and blurry, something which I cannot understand how you achieved.
The levels are not right, there needs to be more white. How on earth did you shoot this with the 20d? I don't mean to be rude, but did you mean it to turn out like this? It's just that the 20d is such a good camera and this is out of focus and with a fantastic amount of grain.
Your ISO is on 3200!!!
That is very high dude! Why? I always shoot portraits on 80. 100 max.
3200 is insane! Thats were all the grain is coming from. Perhaps you should look up a basic tutorial on portrait photography.
Good luck in the future. : )
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you are totally correct. Well you would be if I tried to achieve a technically correct photo. Which I did not.
ISO 3200 is easy, its shot at night outside. What I tried to achieve (and thats how I edited it photoshop) is to look like a very retro photo.
I used some vignetting etc to achieve this.
So again, your critique would be in place if I wanted a stylish and technically perfect portrait (something that anyone can do in my opinion, it can be learned) this however, I did not want to do.
That's why I am in a lot of retro and vintage clubs here on dA. I like non-perfect stuff. Hence, I like to make shots look 'different' (ugly if I may quote some others 
But thanks for your comment anyway
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Sorry to go against your themes, but why did you by a professional camera to take vintage photos? Why not a vintage camera?
It just seems a waste on a excellent camera in my opinion.
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I do not use my 20D jus t for vintage photography, dont worry, haha
I also have my Canonet, pics taken with that are in my gallery aswell, and I ordered a Holga aswell.
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