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Piercing....

Piercing....
aperture f/3.5, shutter 180, lens Canon 50mm

This photograph was taken outdoors on March 31, 2005, a little bit past the "golden hour". We were losing light fast and working hard to capture as many exposures as we could before the light totally disappeared.

I toyed with the contrast in Photoshop and used Neat Image to clean up the grain from the ISO 400 film speed.

I did not alter her eye color at all. Hard to believe...but true!

Carolyn Foster Spano

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Very nice portrait a job well done

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April 02, 2005

Olivia Navarro

Very beautiful, Carolyn. I love the pose and her eye color is fantastic!

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April 02, 2005

Roger Bernabo

a Great capture Carolyn, wonderful exposure... innocence

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April 02, 2005

Carolyn Foster Spano

Thank you Arnold, Roger and Olivia. As always I appreciate the feedback.

(She has an identical twin whose eyes are equally amazing.)

Carolyn/Cari

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April 02, 2005

Jessica McCollam

WOW! What a great portrait, Carolyn! Love this! Congrats on this finalist!:)

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May 22, 2005

robinsonphotoart.com - Jeff Robinson

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Congrats on your terrific portrait! Jeff

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May 22, 2005

Kevin Burns

Congratulations.

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May 22, 2005

Michelle Abraham

Stunning portrait!! Congrats!!

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May 23, 2005

Karen Beri

This is great Carolyn!!Congratulations on this wonderful portrait :)
Karen

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May 23, 2005

Carolyn Foster Spano

Thank you all for the congrats! Cari

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May 24, 2005

Kevin A. Meldrum

hi Carolyn,

i was just surfin through the site when I came across this picture of yours.

i would like to say that I am now in total shock...... this is an amazing picture, I really felt like I could just touch her, it was so real. her eyes as everyone before me has said are of real beauty and they draw you into the subject.

you are so lucky to have such an amazing model to work with.

please add some more, there is so much work you could do here.

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June 21, 2005

Carolyn Foster Spano

Kevin,
I feel awful for not replying to this before now. Thank you so much for the kind comment. This is an older shot of mine and for some reason for sometime now I have not been getting email to tell me if someone comments on a photo. I apologise for it taking a year to respond.
I am going to do another shoot with her in a couple of weeks. It should be fun.

Thanks again and I truly apologise for the delay in response.

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May 28, 2006

Skyy McKendry

Magnificent! Congratulations.

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May 28, 2006

- Jill Odice

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I am not really into "People photos" having grown up in a family full of portait photographers ...but your images are so beautifully done! This one in particular caught my eye. I like that you accentuated her piercings, they are probably very important to her :-) She is a very pretty woman even with them !

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May 29, 2006

Carolyn Foster Spano

Thank you Jill. How great to have grown up around portrait photographers. Lucky you!

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May 29, 2006

Keith L. Clayton

Love this image!

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May 29, 2006

Carolyn Foster Spano

Thank you very much Keith.

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May 29, 2006

Tammy Scott

Wonderful finalist and beautiful model! Belated congratulations!