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Cape Cod Light
Cape Cod Light
ButterflySis


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Challenge: Night Shot II (Advanced Editing II)
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Location: Cape Cod, MA
Date: Oct 17, 2004
Aperture: 22
ISO: 100
Shutter: 44s
Galleries: Landscape, Architecture
Date Uploaded: Oct 17, 2004

 Taken while on a photo outing with a group from another site. Got up very early and shot this before sunrise.

Cloned out a couple dust specks and the top of a skinny little fence post. Adjusted brightness/contrast.

This is my first submission...

Statistics
Place: 5 out of 182
Avg (all users): 7.3304
Avg (commenters): 8.6667
Avg (participants): 7.2069
Avg (non-participants): 7.4561
Views since voting: 4493
Views during voting: 423
Votes: 230
Comments: 50
Favorites: 40 (view)

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 05/22/2009 09:46:01 PM
Wow,
The sky really makes this shot to me!!
Beautiful!!
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 08/13/2006 06:48:04 AM
Excellent shot. I love these photos and you have a great PF!!
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 08/05/2006 12:15:30 PM
Great job on this pic. love the softenss of the clouds and your center positioning of the lighthouse was a perfect compositional choice.
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 05/07/2006 12:25:55 PM
WOW - looks like a poster. IT is beautiful. So smooth and the dim tones really work well.
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 05/07/2006 12:09:11 PM
Beautiful lighting! Very nice
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 02/06/2006 04:43:39 PM
Missed this one before in your profile... Beautiful. The colors and motion in this just make it sing!
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 08/19/2005 03:56:44 AM
The sky grabbed me at first look. The detail in the scene is great. I like that you can see the fence is there but the detail is not. The positioning of the lighthouse is good, but better since the house offsets it. Very nice perspective.
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 08/14/2005 07:16:40 AM
How did I miss this? It's simply amazing. The deep blues are so beautiful. The clouds are almost too perfect to be real!!! Great shot.
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 08/14/2005 06:50:10 AM
Great contrast. I love the long exposure look of the clouds.
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 08/14/2005 06:37:16 AM
Great photo ...
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 07/11/2005 02:53:17 PM
Really a wonderful capture! Love the clouds! :)
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 05/29/2005 06:06:01 PM
The more I look at this shot, the more I love it! The colors, light, and mood are just perfect. And look at that score! In some challenges you would have brought home a ribbon, too bad this was such a high scoring challenge. Regardless, it's a beautiful shot that you can forever be proud of. Fantastic work!!
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 02/14/2005 01:55:43 PM
This shot is just wonderful... at the time i gave it a 10 but i would give it a 10 again it's just lovely this shot... i love the way the sky is moving... very beautiful indeed.
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 02/02/2005 06:28:20 PM
Nice time ex shot.
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 11/30/2004 08:11:16 AM
oh man, it's damn impressive.
i really loved the shutter speed you've chosen.
the sky color, oh tell me about sky color, it's fantastic.
congrats.
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 11/03/2004 05:48:14 PM
Sorry I'm a bit late with my reply. Thank you all so much for the great, honest, and helpful comments. Many of you said you felt that the light was too centered. You are absolutely right. I didn't notice it at the time because I was thinking of the light and the house/building as a unit and therefore it's not centered. After reading your comments I see how centered it is every time I view it! lol I've tried a new crop where neither is centered and it looks very nice. Thank you for pointing that out.

Thanks again for making my first entry so much fun!

Jen
 11/02/2004 02:58:18 PM
Beautiful photo I love the soft sweep of the sky ! -- Bob
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 10/31/2004 09:32:19 AM
beautiful
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 10/29/2004 02:01:09 AM
simply stunning. beautiful work, jen.
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 10/28/2004 07:14:39 AM
wow, for the first submission
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 10/25/2004 02:52:47 AM
Wow, Jen... you really did it up right for a first "member" entry!!!! This is awesome! Congrats! :o)
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 10/24/2004 11:39:04 PM
Nice shot BFSis! Especially for your first entry. ;)
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 10/24/2004 08:19:29 PM
Awsome first submission! Lovely show of time (from the cloud movement).
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 10/24/2004 08:15:43 PM
Congratulations on your 5th placing. Certainly a calendar image.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/24/2004 07:03:17 PM
This is beautiful. I would have prefered the lighthouse not be right in the center though. The sky is gorgeous.
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 10/24/2004 04:59:14 PM
There's undeniable beauty in this shot. Love the way the clouds have turned out.
The onlt thing that bothers me is that I feel that it's a bit heavy on the left of the frame. Would love to see a square crop of this image.
I like it a lotl and I think it's a very good image. All the best.
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 10/24/2004 03:43:51 PM
That sky is increadible. The silent movement of the clouds at night. I like how the colors are subtle - at night colors become indistinct. The composition contracts the filmy horizontal movent of the sky, with the solid vertical of the lighthouse. 9
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 10/24/2004 02:33:32 PM
So beautiful. 10
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 10/23/2004 08:04:33 PM
This photograph is just beautiful! If it doesn't ribbon, I'll be very surprised. But if for some reason it doesn't (it's been known to happen on DPC) at least you know that you captured a truly compelling image that will bring you satisfaction longer than winning ever could. Kudos!
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 10/23/2004 12:50:38 PM
returning for comments
Well, lovely light house, but the sky is sweeping by too surrealist for the inherent beauty of the subject.
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 10/23/2004 08:29:08 AM
This is stunning, and the subject matter is dfiferent, which is good! :) I love the way the ambient light is reflecting off the right side of the lighthouse. And of course the sky and clouds are very trippy. Good luck in the challenge, I hope this one does well! - 9.
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 10/22/2004 03:31:11 PM
very nice lighthouse photo...just enough light
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 10/22/2004 01:08:01 AM
Great work, really great work, you should be proud of this one, 10
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 10/21/2004 08:41:29 PM
This is a good image. What would have made it a great image (IMO) would have been cropping it a lot tighter.
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 10/21/2004 12:41:41 PM
simple and elegant
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 10/20/2004 03:07:37 PM
Very nice clean photo. Lighthouse maybe could be more off center. 8
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 10/20/2004 01:41:23 AM
WOnderful captured and nice subtle lighting.
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 10/19/2004 09:11:48 PM
Beautiful lighting. Love the glow on the lighthouse.
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 10/19/2004 07:03:18 AM
Nicely done; I like the sky.
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 10/18/2004 11:21:58 PM
Sky is just amazing... real good idea. Just wonder if its not too centered.
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 10/18/2004 11:21:46 PM
Amazing shot and the only 10 in my score-casting.
I love the central composition of the lighthouse. I wonder if there will be people complaining about the composition as it doesn't follow the rule of thirds (it does in my opinion - with the little house) at least directly - something my pic was blamed for. Hope to see your shot in top 5.
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 10/18/2004 07:11:20 PM
Great sky effects
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 10/18/2004 06:16:06 PM
lovely
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 10/18/2004 05:26:48 PM
Looks like a painting with the sky like it is. Very pretty shot.
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 10/18/2004 02:28:57 PM
I like the blurred clouds
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 10/18/2004 11:50:03 AM
A stunning photo that fully deserves its 10. The sky is awesome. Great shot, well done!
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 10/18/2004 06:50:42 AM
The movement of the clouds is so eerie ... very ethereal feeling like in a dream sequence of a movie. Good job! 10.
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 10/18/2004 06:25:16 AM
Wow, amazing clouds, I really like the movement of the clouds, I'm a huge clouds fan. I think that you should have placed the lighthouse more to the right, it's too centered like that for my taste. Otherwise this is a good photo and the clouds... wow!
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 10/17/2004 08:49:51 PM
OH COOL! What a shot! I love the soft clouds.
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 10/17/2004 08:38:32 PM
Really nice shot. My only nitpicks would be to add just a little more light to the subject and to move the subject out of dead center, but the shot came out great regardless. Nice job.
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