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Challenge: Light (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G5
Location: A vacant house
Date: Jan 29, 2005
Galleries: Interior, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Jan 29, 2005

 I know this won't appeal to most, but there's something about this picture that I just find pleasing. This was actually a picture gone wrong that I had taken while looking at houses for sale.. I left the camera on auto, and it didn't always work out well. However, when I got home and tweaked it a little in PS, it turned out to be a nice study of shadow and light. I know I'll get flack about the noise, but I really like noise in some b&ws, and this is one of them. I really liked the original colour version, too, but decided on b&w for the drama of it. That, and the colours of the house were such that it looked as if I had the white balance set wrong. ;)

Editing: Curves, hue/saturation, cropped, resized, border. I may have done a little dodge/burn; can't remember if I got rid of it all or just faded it.

Statistics
Place: 149 out of 266
Avg (all users): 5.3033
Avg (commenters): 7.4000
Avg (participants): 5.2162
Avg (non-participants): 5.4000
Views since voting: 776
Views during voting: 292
Votes: 211
Comments: 12
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 04/28/2005 05:45:33 AM
i think this should have placed much higher. you used light to create the composition nicely.
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 04/28/2005 04:21:31 AM
Wow, near perfect in terms of the balance of the composition.
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 02/07/2005 02:15:59 PM
The haze, by the way, is natural :)
 02/07/2005 11:52:32 AM
excellent, mocabela. love your work.
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 02/07/2005 08:09:43 AM
Appealing to me, gave it a 10, great work! :)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/05/2005 12:27:23 AM
i like this sphere..well caught
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 02/04/2005 01:19:15 PM
Hm. I had something along the same lines myself, but didn't upload it. Compositionally this is very strong, and there is a sense of atmosphere to the empty room. I think you've done a good job wiith the balance of exposure, in a near imposible situation, without taking obvious processing artefacts to a noticeable amount. The impression of haze around the window, the unevenness of it, bugs me just a little: I like the idea of it, but the non-regularity of it somehow makes it seem unsuited to the room, unnatural, almost, out of place. Unless of course that is a processing artefact :-)
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 02/02/2005 10:48:57 AM
There is something very gloomy and foreboding about this picture. Excellent potential, but it may have been a little more interesting with something in the room.. maybe a lone chair?
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 02/02/2005 10:46:38 AM
What a fantastic idea. What would have really worked better is if there was something more interesting immediately ouside the window, casting a shadow into the room. Still, this is a nice, clean, graphic composition. Well done, 8
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 02/01/2005 10:01:00 AM
Nice shot.
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 01/31/2005 11:33:37 PM
I love the different textures. The halo around the window is a bit much for me.
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 01/30/2005 07:48:02 PM
Fantastic use of light and vision. 10.
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