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Challenge: Tall!!! (Extended Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Fujifilm X-Pro2
Lens: Fujifilm XF 10-24mm f/4 R IOS
Date: Oct 2, 2017
Date Uploaded: Oct 4, 2017

 I wondered downtown one morning with this challenge in mind. I took pictures of several tall buildings. When I looked through them I thought they were decent but nothing special. However, I didn't realize at the time that this was an extended editing challenge. Once I figured that out I tried to think of something to do with them. When no clever ideas came to mind, I just looked for any interesting images that I could combine with it. I wasnt sure how people would react to this blend of a woman blended with a 98 story building. Thanks for the votes and comments.

Did i mention the building is Trump Tower? I opted to clone out the giant TRUMP on the side of it. I thought the juxtaposition of a young woman and the word Trump in 30 foot letters gave the image a whole different tone. If I had left the letters I might have been tempted to title it something that might have alienated a number of voters.

Originally posted by tanguera:
... Would love to know how you did this.


I did some standard processing to black and white of an image of Trump tower and an image of Jada. Then, 90% of the processing was taking the tower as the base layer and adding the image of Jada and setting the Jada layer to "Lighten"

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Statistics
Place: 3 out of 35
Avg (all users): 6.9796
Avg (commenters): 8.0000
Avg (participants): 7.0000
Avg (non-participants): 6.9677
Views since voting: 1919
Views during voting: 92
Votes: 49
Comments: 18
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 10/17/2017 08:47:13 PM
Congrats on the ribbon! You did a fabulous job with this and your model has a gorgeous, interesting and strong profile. Good idea to erase Trump. Really, can you do it some more.
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 10/14/2017 10:08:53 PM
Cool! Nice work, congrats!
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 10/14/2017 09:34:30 AM
Congratulations on the yellow ribbon. Trump would be proud you won because of his tower :)
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 10/14/2017 07:33:04 AM
Congrats on the ribbon! Well done!
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 10/13/2017 11:03:20 PM
Well....this was my top pick for BLUE. Inspiring vision and execution. Congrats Mark
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 10/13/2017 07:06:05 PM
Congrats on the ribbon, Mark. My equal top pick with the winner. Beautifully done - I'm glad you got rid of the Trump (oh, wish it could be that easy).
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 10/13/2017 04:36:17 PM
My favorite of the challenge by far, great work!
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 10/13/2017 03:46:10 PM
What a remarkable image, Mark. Waaaay out of the box. Would love to know how you did this.
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 10/13/2017 10:40:11 AM
I knew that was a Trump tower. Somehow I always thought you were in NYC. Now I'm questioning everything. A beautiful image against some good competition! =)
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 10/13/2017 09:28:58 AM
Great vision. WTG Mark!
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 10/13/2017 02:37:11 AM
Congratulations for this fine creative work.
Love it.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/12/2017 11:59:52 PM
Good (intended?) pun.
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 10/12/2017 10:43:25 PM
well done
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 10/07/2017 04:06:52 AM
well saeen and a good entfy 6
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 10/06/2017 08:00:25 AM
very cool. 9
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 10/06/2017 06:00:46 AM
How very interesting. You made me stop and look.... then look some more.... then look again. You made me think and puzzle and wonder.

This is somewhat "weird", but I very much appreciate how much it drew me in and that it does fit the challenge.

Well done!
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 10/06/2017 01:59:41 AM
Creative & well presented.
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 10/06/2017 12:22:11 AM
WOw! Very creative. Hope to see it on the front page. Here's a 10 to get you started. :)
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