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Fighting The Economic Crisis

Prozac74 Christian G.

Fighting The Economic Crisis by Prozac74.
The inspiration for this one was the legendary picture by Josh Sommers. I did not want to copy it completely and hope it has enough character of its own. The suit-boxing gloves combination has its origins in the fact that they match up pretty well...

Taken for the Active Assignment Weekly! group. This month's assignment: Deep Character Portrait.

What it took: Mainly I wanted to optimize the focus on the eye by enhancing the local contrast. Then by accident I overlayed the luminance channel with the original picture resulting in a desaturation and higher contrast, which I liked immediately. 
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Josh Sommers  Pro User  says:

Cheers Christian. :) Nice shot. I like the desaturated, high contrast look too, and this certainly has it's own character. Lol re: legendary. Thank you. :)
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tonyarrj says:

very funny.

Great lighting. (no flash reflexions in the glasses)

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Seen in my contacts' photos. (?)
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Prozac74  Pro User  says:

Indirect lighting upwards.
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tiroy  Pro User  says:

Cool :) What did you put in your mouth?
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Hyaground  Pro User  says:

great work - prefer your version
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Prozac74  Pro User  says:

@tiroy
A generic gumshield used to prevent you from premature loss of teeth...

(...and it looks pretty evil.)
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amberbella  Pro User  says:

So humorous. Love it!
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RockLizardTahoe  Pro User  says:

This is great! The clarity is absolutely awesome and I really like the high-light. :)
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Zoe in NZ  Pro User  says:

LOL - good one! I love the tie-suit-boxing glove combination! :-)

Only comment would be that I find the boxing glove in the bottom right corner a bit distracting - it's a too close-up to be really noticable as a glove and thus is an alien item, not really belonging into the image...
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Prozac74  Pro User  says:

Problem is that the eye-distance to the camera was 30 cm, the glove nearly touching the lens. However with the glove out of the frame I just looked like a "one armed bandit".
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Zoe in NZ  Pro User  says:

You did really well with the focus in that case!!! :-)
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Prozac74  Pro User  says:

Funny thing is that in that distance I can see the focus fields from the front and therefore position my direct point of view of my one eye (here my left eye) on the middle focus field. And tadaa, the focus on all pictures was always on the middle of my eye.
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EC Comic's Fan! says:

got rabbies?????
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