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Disney's take on Alice in Wonderland traumatized me as a youth. This... this is just beyond the beyond.

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dressdragn is the manager of the US delegation to this year's World Cosplay Championships, and takes pictures of them often. This is my favorite shot of the team (well, half the team. Sorry, fatwetdog!) so far:



Hee!

ETA: OK, OK, here's the other half. Now I'm not sorry anymore. =P

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1) May he never sell another book ever again. Fellow copyeditors, I know you hear me on this.

2) cmpriest is looking for help naming her new fish over at this post. Make me proud, FL!

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Some of you may think that kylecassidy is the best photographer in this house. Well, you're probably right. However! Now that philforrest has moved out and assuming trillian_stars and whafford don't have any hidden photography talents (and if they do, I'd thank them to keep it to themselves), I have a good chance at being at least the second-best*. Plus as I used to edit photos for a living, I know my way around Photoshop, at least a little.

Look! Turtles!



So you see here I kicked up the contrast, punched up the yellow highlights and blue shadows, then did a very subtle "spotlight" burn to focus the eye on the cranky, cranky face. I came close to making it look like it was taken in artificial light by making the light too white, but I think punching the contrast as much as I did really brings out the depth in the wrinkles of the shell.

( unedited version )

Here the changes are more obvious -- big kick in the contrast, big bump in overall color saturation and I nudged the yellow and green highlights, plus a big ol' not-as-subtle spotlight burn.

( unedited version, plus an alternate edit )

What do you think?

*Maybe third**.

**OK, OK, possibly fourth.