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St. Joseph's Church
St. Joseph's Church
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Challenge: Abandoned Buildings (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Peleng 8mm f/3.5 Fisheye MC In M42 Mount
Location: Albany, NY
Date: Apr 11, 2005
Aperture: f8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/400
Galleries: Architecture, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Apr 11, 2005

 Peleng 8mm fisheye (not allowed to de-fish, could hurt my score)

slight rotation
cropped
adjusted levels and colors
quad toned (forgot which one, photoshop preset)
resized
usm

Statistics
Place: 217 out of 500
Avg (all users): 5.2261
Avg (commenters): 4.8125
Avg (participants): 4.9448
Avg (non-participants): 5.6090
Views since voting: 1435
Views during voting: 456
Votes: 314
Comments: 35
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/19/2005 04:52:44 PM
I like the wide angle but I am not too big on the fish eye look.
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 04/19/2005 03:35:52 PM
The second really wide shot Ive seen, its effective, I need me one these lenses,, great sky-- just all-aorund a nice photo, 8
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 04/19/2005 07:34:19 AM
nice contrast..building does not look too abandoned.
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 04/18/2005 07:48:15 AM
interesting pix. use of fish eye ok, but towers bowing kind of distracting. blacks good, whites need work.
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 04/17/2005 09:54:45 PM
Doesn't scream abandoned, but will assume that it is.
The curvature is a bit of an uneasy feeling for me on this one.
Good tone used.
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 04/17/2005 07:47:04 PM
Looks beautiful, but it doesn't look abandoned to me.
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 04/17/2005 06:45:05 PM
i really like everything about this picture except the fact that it was taken with a fisheye/wideangle lens. the fisheye effect doesn't seem fitting to me for this type of picture.
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 04/17/2005 06:12:56 PM
I doesn't appear to be abandoned, not saying that it's not.
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 04/17/2005 04:35:22 AM
Good contrast but I'm a little distracted by the wide angle effect.
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 04/16/2005 05:32:39 PM
Very nice contrast, but I'm personally not fond of the curvature.
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 04/16/2005 03:15:10 PM
I'm sorry, but this just doesn't look abandoned - what a beautiful structure! :-/
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 04/16/2005 11:13:35 AM
Very dramatic, but don't care for the curvature and most importantly - it may be abandoned, but it sure does not appear to be.
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 04/15/2005 10:51:25 PM
I don't personally like the fisheye effect in this.
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 04/15/2005 06:55:56 PM
I don't think the fisheye works well for this. I like the building though and you did a good job balancing the light trim with the darker brick.
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 04/15/2005 02:17:30 PM
Very nice photograph in b&w. Like the unusual perspective. Excellent focus. This building looks like it just too new, to be called abandoned. You did too good a job with this photograph for me to visualize it as abandoned. Perhaps a little closer shot of the windows, if they boarded up. Great photogrpah!
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 04/14/2005 11:57:54 AM
The look of this building seems too splendid to be abandoned, nice photo nevertheless....
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 04/14/2005 10:27:14 AM
cool tones in this image, doesn't look too abandoned tho its a beautiful structure
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 04/14/2005 07:38:46 AM
Nice choice w/ the fisheye
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 04/14/2005 03:38:31 AM
it doesn't look abandoned, and i don't like the eye fish look...
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 04/13/2005 10:55:50 PM
dont know about the fisheye here
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 04/13/2005 07:21:03 PM
don't care for the fish eye and the church doesn't look abandoned..
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 04/13/2005 06:19:15 PM
is it really abandoned?
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 04/13/2005 04:05:46 PM
nice pic - like the fish eye effect, But abandoned? Not portrayed in the image,
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 04/13/2005 02:29:43 PM
Interesting church. I'm not sure if I like the round effect to this picture.
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 04/13/2005 02:00:16 PM
Gasp! Is that beautiful building abandoned????? Who would leave such an architectural masterpiece abandoned. Your picture is just gorgeous! I LOVE the cepia tones!!!
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 04/13/2005 10:21:07 AM
I like the subject of the picture, but the distortion is just too much for me.
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 04/13/2005 09:13:29 AM
Very moody pic. Good clarity of detail. Like the contrast. Fisheye lens?
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 04/13/2005 07:43:34 AM
Great shot. Good luck. 7.
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 04/13/2005 06:44:15 AM
I don't know if you used a fish eye on this or it was just your lens you can correct this with transform perspective in photoshop if that was not the case.
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 04/13/2005 06:44:12 AM
Nice picture, but it doesn't look very abandoned - is it really?
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 04/13/2005 03:11:09 AM
I like how you printed this image although I think is a tiny bit dark. The distortion of the building works against the image. (opinion)
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 04/12/2005 09:58:48 PM
A beautiful building, nice shot and you certainly get a plus for using a fisheye lens!
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 04/12/2005 09:23:33 PM
This is a very nice shot, but I am sorry, nothing about it says 'abandoned' to me -- looks in better shape than most active churches around here.
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 04/12/2005 08:26:07 PM
Nice WA effect here -- def works with the towers!
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 04/12/2005 08:24:12 PM
I have a hard time believing this is abandoned from this shot
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