Sam smiling by Joe Lencioni

April 28, 2006

ƒ/1.4, 1/20 s, 400 ISO

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Samantha Matthes, previously featured here, smiling while she works on a laptop.

I have an exciting weekend ahead of me: my longtime friend, Dustin Watson, is getting married on Saturday and I get to be in the wedding! w00t

3 Comments

Robbie G said
April 29th, 2006 at 2:46 pm

The lower half of her face looks like it’s digitally drawn/from a different picture. But I like how focused her eye is.
(post author) Joe Lencioni said
April 30th, 2006 at 8:23 pm

Hey Rob, thanks for the comment. The lower half of her face looks like it’s digitally drawn/from a different picture because of the extremely shallow depth of feild provided by the f/1.4 aperture.

There was actually not a whole lot of post processing done on this photo–I did a small bit of darkening on the right side to bring more focus to her face, a slight curves adjustment layer for added contrast, and a bit of color correction on her hair.
Marius Muscalu said
May 18th, 2006 at 6:08 pm

nice portrait… and very nice template…