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08-OCT-2006 Alastair Norcross

Introspection

Houston, TX

Canon EOS 20D ,Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
1/125s f/8.0 at 24.0mm iso200 hide exif
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Date/Time08-Oct-2006 14:13:36
MakeCanon
ModelCanon EOS 20D
Flash UsedNo
Focal Length24 mm
Exposure Time1/125 sec
Aperturef/8
ISO Equivalent200
Exposure Bias
White Balance
Metering Modeaverage (1)
JPEG Quality
Exposure Programprogram (1)
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Canon DSLR Challenge17-Oct-2006 19:49
That's just great. At first, I was wondering how you got those repeating reflections. It looks so good that it's hard to believe that it's a PS job. Extremely well done! Jim H.
Guest 17-Oct-2006 16:01
Very nice! Worth every minute of your time you spent on it. -Cat
Canon DSLR Challenge16-Oct-2006 03:40
Thanks for the comments everyone.
Alastair
Canon DSLR Challenge16-Oct-2006 00:11
Wow, very well done! --Melanie (mlynn)
Guest 15-Oct-2006 02:55
waw.... I agree...this could not have been easy...
Canon DSLR Challenge13-Oct-2006 03:35
Well executed. This culdn't have been easy.
Jeff Hall
Canon DSLR Challenge10-Oct-2006 21:54
Very nicely done, technically almost flawless. In fact, I would say too good. The frame is so convincing it dominates, and I have to keep telling myself it's a portrait of you. I'm sure that's a complement, I think. - Najinsky
Canon DSLR Challenge10-Oct-2006 00:04
Great job, Alistair! -mikey
Canon DSLR Challenge09-Oct-2006 15:22
Very skillful Alastair, I was thinking of a composite mirror one as well but gave up when I saw your post... blew mine out of the water! B&W was a good idea for this. Regards ~ Bob
Canon DSLR Challenge09-Oct-2006 13:34
Thanks for the comments everyone. The more I looked at it, though, the less happy I was with the B&W conversion. I spent so much time photoshopping the pictures within pictures that I rather rushed through the original B&W conversion in my haste to get it done with. I've now redone the B&W conversion to give more texture to the skin tones and to the wood at the left.
Alastair
Canon DSLR Challenge09-Oct-2006 06:10
Simply excellent.

Cheers, Vikas.
Canon DSLR Challenge09-Oct-2006 03:03
Thanks. It took quite a while. An hour or two, I'd say.
Alastair
jnconradie08-Oct-2006 23:18
Excellent concept and great PhotoShop skills. It must have taken hours... or at least that it how it looks. Congratulations. Regards ~jnconradie
Canon DSLR Challenge08-Oct-2006 23:18
Great idea and very well executed! I really need to learn more about the capabilities of PS! :-) CJ
ctfchallenge08-Oct-2006 23:11
cool idea.
theFly
Canon DSLR Challenge08-Oct-2006 22:11
Thanks Matt. It was a bit tricky, but would have been next to impossible without Photoshop's free transform ability. I made a copy of the original, shrank it a bit, and then pasted it on a layer. Then I used the free transform handles to fit the copy into the picture frame. I repeated this a couple of times. Then I flattened the image, made another copy, and repeated the process with this copy (which now had four nested pictures within it). As I got towards the middle it got really tricky because of the steep angle.
And yes, Alastair is a man (not an uncommon name in the UK, especially Scotland, but virtually unheard of in the US). My wife, Diana, was the cooperative model in the other shots.
Alastair
Canon DSLR Challenge08-Oct-2006 21:49
Great PP! I think this is harder than it looks because the distortion of the repeating image keeps changing to a steeper angle. It is a clean job. well done.

See I thought Alastair was a woman! Must have been your wife in th absolut commercial or behind the Mac Laptop. :-)

Matt