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NickChao
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[2006-12-19 06:21:31 +0000 UTC]
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(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 2734; Deviations: 207; Watchers: 1584
Watching: 138; Pageviews: 88235; Comments Made: 4178; Friends: 138
# Interests
Favorite bands / musical artists: Symphonic MetalFavorite games: Uncharted, Red Dead, The Witcher
Tools of the Trade: Digital and Film, Medium Format and 35mm, Photoshop, Escapism.
# Social Links
http://instagram.com/nick_http://twitter.com/nick_chao
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh7iLz3lVk0rzGZ2XYus29A
# About me
I'm a photographer currently living and working in Santa Cruz CA. Leave me a message if you have any questions or comments about my work.# Comments
Comments: 888
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Enjoy your special day and thank you for being an inspiration!
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Happy birthday, my friend. I hope that your career is progressing nicely, as your talent is undeniable.
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Gorgeous work. Plus, you take the best selfies I've seen in a looong time! 
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Wicked work. Your gallery shows such a lot of improvement and growth. Good luck for the future
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Your work is absolutely incredible and inspiring! I do not live in California but I may travel there soon, if you would be at all interesting in ever working together, maybe check out my port? You can see some on this account or here!
www.facebook.com/JenovaxLilith
www.LilithJenovaxLaVey.tumblr.com
Even if not, I will continue to follow and admire your breathtaking images! You're very talented!
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Hi. Thanks for your kind words. Yeah, maybe if you are around you can drop me a message. I'm some times busier than others but maybe we can make something happen.
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Do you happen to be located anywhere around Palmdale? That is where I am going to be shooting/staying the first week of June here soon.
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I'm actually up the coast a fair way. Closer to San Francisco than LA.
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Damn, all right. Thank you anyway.
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Thanks for your kind support on my work.
Your gallery is absolutely unbelievable!
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Nice work, do you use any particular lighting etc. or do anything special in post processing?
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Thanks! Yeah my photos are pretty set up and heavily retouched. I usually use one light, maybe two if its a big set, and big, soft light modifiers. I have a 60" umbrella I use all the time and a 70" softbox I pull out once in a while too. In terms of post processing I do extensive skin and basic portrait retouching on pretty much everything and then spend a lot of time working with color to get it to look how I want. A lot of it is just simple stuff like cloning, healing, dodge/burn, and a lot of masked curve and color balance layers.
You can find some more info on my shoots and retouching on my website blog here: nickchao.com/blog/
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Thanks for the quick reply and the info 
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Hi Nick,
You have been featured as this week's Undiscovered Talent here: People and Portraits Spotlight Vol. 108 .
Looking forward to seeing more art from you at devPREMIUM .
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One or more of your works have been featured:
wednesday collection - 2013.08.07I've been on dA for two years!
dAnniversary edition: best of Color pt.5
Croisement by *KizukiTamura Sea of Doubts by *insolitus85
Foggy by *TriinErg
deep by ~PSIHEYA guys by ~BreathUnderwater
Patapouf by ~MartinMarius
X-Line by *cameraflou Watercolor texture in red and cyan by `jane-beata
Night Forest by ~Eredel
0032 by ~masyaka-kusyaka
I want to get these features as
much exposure as I can, so go view it,
fave it, comment on it, share it, etc!
It is my dAnniversary edition, so the works in the article
are my favorites of what I have featured so far.
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featured, wednesday 06.12
I want to get these features as much
exposure as I can, so go view it, fave it,
comment on it, share it, etc!
you are also invited to join #UnexpectedPhotos
I apologize for the lateness of this notification,
school got quite stressful.
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