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Challenge: Abandoned Buildings (Basic Editing III)
Collection: Nature
Camera: Casio Exilim Pro EX-P600
Location: In the Woods, near my house
Date: Apr 9, 2005
Galleries: Nature
Date Uploaded: Apr 10, 2005

 I had to go out for a run for Track practice (at home on a Saturday). I didn't really feel like running, but I had my "Running Cam" (my small Casio one) and decided to walk for a bit. In the forest behind my house there is an abandoned shack that I realized would fit the challenge right after I walked by it. I shot a few angles and continued walking. I still didn't feel like running, so I walked into the forest across the road and strolled through it. As I was doing this, I remembered back to exploring it a few year ago with a few friends. We had found this spooky building, were freaked out by it, and ran away. Now I just needed to relocate it. I remembered it was up the creek and on a hill and found it pretty soon. I shot many different angles, to get to one angle I stepped over a large trunk and scraped my leg..."bleed for photography =)." I used many different ISOs (pretty dark, no direct sunlight), and this was the very last one I took. Then I started my run, satified that I had got a good shot.

Editing: Brightness and Contrast (was a hard balance with the dark foreground and bright background), Color Balance (turned up the reds a bit), size, usm.

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Statistics
Place: 23 out of 500
Avg (all users): 6.1312
Avg (commenters): 7.7647
Avg (participants): 5.8836
Avg (non-participants): 6.4885
Views since voting: 1615
Views during voting: 424
Votes: 320
Comments: 23
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 04/23/2005 12:21:18 AM
Originally posted by micknewton:
Where's the rain Thomas? :)

It's there and here, but I just don't go photographing in the rain as much as the cloudy/overcast or sunny/not rainy =).
 04/19/2005 09:17:28 PM
Originally posted by NovaTiger:
Originally posted by micknewton:
Very nice! Zoomdak perhaps?


Wow! And haystack rock wasn't even in the picture! Excellent guess!

Actually it was an easy guess. The ferns, the trees, the shingles on the building all say "Oregon" to anyone that has lived here for any length of time. In fact, the only thing missing from this image is rain. Where's the rain Thomas? :)
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 04/19/2005 08:24:22 PM
Originally posted by micknewton:
Very nice! Zoomdak perhaps?


Wow! And haystack rock wasn't even in the picture! Excellent guess!

I must say though, Zoomdak, that I was expecting a closer up shot from the other shots you showed me...pardon me for saying so, but I'd say it wasn't your best work...but, hey, 24th place isn't all that bad now is it?

Message edited by author 2005-04-20 00:26:48.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/19/2005 03:43:24 PM
This is the type of place that inspires fairy tales. --9
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 04/19/2005 08:13:35 AM
Sharp, balanced and colors are great. Makes you wonder who once lived here and why? Mary~
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 04/19/2005 07:39:47 AM
it must be me...I seem to be focusing on blown out backgrounds on much of the submissions. I love the foreground, though. This could be a winner with a little light experimantation...maybe even a different time of day.
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 04/18/2005 04:48:58 AM
Great use of color... Greens are beautiful...
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 04/17/2005 01:43:40 PM
I think the color saturation distracts from the composition.
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 04/17/2005 12:52:00 PM
i love the vivid green and the way that the cabin looks as if it just popped up from the forrest floor. great job i think
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 04/17/2005 10:42:47 AM
beautiful
 04/16/2005 06:30:31 AM
Very nice! Zoomdak perhaps?
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 04/15/2005 06:31:11 PM
This is a good photo. The building gets a little lost in the woods though.
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 04/15/2005 10:08:28 AM
Great use of foreground objects.
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 04/14/2005 11:00:25 PM
Wonderful colours!!
 04/14/2005 06:49:16 AM
Good strong colours and nice composition
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 04/13/2005 07:19:19 PM
very nice!! 8
 04/13/2005 05:00:03 PM
Great shot...
 04/13/2005 12:51:56 PM
Very nice, one of my highest rated.
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 04/13/2005 12:12:58 PM
The foreground vegitation is beautiful but distracting. It's almost hard to tell if the plants are growing off of the roof of the shack or growing out from behind it. All in all, a nice shot, though.
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 04/13/2005 06:00:56 AM
This is a nice image. I like how bright the color is in this image. I also like how the subject isn't completely center in this photograph. Nice work.
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 04/13/2005 03:04:18 AM
Looks like this was quite a treasure at one time. Now your image is a treasure. I love the textures, and colors. Nicely done. <7>
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 04/13/2005 02:49:54 AM
Beautiful! The blend of colours is great.
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 04/12/2005 11:27:13 PM
This is sweet & rich. A little too garish on the foreground greens for my taste, but an effective composition. I'm guessing Oregon?
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