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Challenge: Abandoned Buildings (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
Location: South of Iceland
Date: Apr 12, 2005
Aperture: 8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/50
Galleries: Landscape, Rural
Date Uploaded: Apr 12, 2005

 Focal length 17mm, a 103 ND filter and a Circular polarizer stacked together. This is a little bit west of Skógar in the south of Iceland. Changed the WB too a little bit more blue and increased the contrast in C1 and then used curves to also increase the contrast and cropped into a 2:1 panorama. I then used selective colour to boost the blue colour in the shot to get the sky darker, the reds a bit redder to get the brown tone in the mountain to stand out more and lightened the whites to make the snow stand out a bit more too and finally sharpened a little bit with unsharp mask.

Here is an outtake that I was complementing entering instead. Oh and later, I entered a shot of the same location that I took in february in the "Best of 2005" challenge, that was the time I scouted this location.

Statistics
Place: 6 out of 500
Avg (all users): 6.8069
Avg (commenters): 8.3125
Avg (participants): 6.5130
Avg (non-participants): 7.2500
Views since voting: 4288
Views during voting: 518
Votes: 321
Comments: 40
Favorites: 7 (view)

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 04/26/2005 11:15:47 AM
wish i was there ... well done
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 04/20/2005 07:51:34 AM
Glæsilegt. Til hamingju!
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 04/20/2005 03:22:45 AM
Congrats on 6th place. I gave this a 7.
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 04/20/2005 02:37:43 AM
Congratulations! Til hamingju! Hefði verið gaman að sjá þessa ofar :) 6 af 500 ekki slæmt þó :)
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 04/20/2005 02:07:02 AM
Flott mynd, til hamingju með 6. sætið
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 04/19/2005 08:47:56 PM
Top ten finish - close to making on the home page where I thought it should have been. Nicely done!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/19/2005 07:44:12 PM
Breathtaking photograph and will probably score well do to how gorgeous this photo really is. I will point out though that the focus is on the abandoned buildings and I expect the photo to lead me to the main subject which in this case it does not. My view goes directly to the mountain range, just my observation but great capture.
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 04/19/2005 12:33:54 PM
Great landscape entry for this challenge. Photo seems small in comparison to the allowed 640 limits, but could just be my monitor. Excellent photo
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 04/18/2005 09:56:42 AM
nice sky, did you use a ND Filter? 10
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 04/18/2005 07:45:35 AM
Very nice gradient of the shade of blue in the sky.
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 04/18/2005 06:52:07 AM
Beautiful photograph
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 04/18/2005 06:07:07 AM
nic pix. nice colors. nice comp. good lines.
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 04/17/2005 01:49:31 PM
the burning in the left sky corner is just a bit too much for my taste
nevertheless its a kool view and fine image
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 04/16/2005 09:07:13 PM
Fantastic shot. Sure to place high. Nice work.
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 04/16/2005 06:09:27 PM
Beautiful picture. Cheating, though, to have such a nice backdrop for your subject...
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 04/16/2005 04:50:36 PM
I took several shots of this house last summer, but can't use it now. You have made a great photo out of it. I like the contrast in colours and the composition. Great work!
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 04/16/2005 08:11:04 AM
Great photo, everything is perfect.
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 04/15/2005 02:26:31 PM
The buildings are overwhelmed by the beautiful landscape and the intense blue sky, for this challenge a tighter shot ... nice shot
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 04/15/2005 01:13:37 PM
Stunning. I gotta get me a ND filter! However, this image is hurt by the 640 max rule. You could have cropped some and brought more attention to the ruins. A ribbon for sure. 8
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 04/15/2005 02:49:44 AM
Great shot!
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 04/14/2005 06:38:56 PM
Good job.
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 04/14/2005 04:08:00 PM
Hmmmmmmmmm. Theological Statement? Which lasts longer - that which is made by man or that which is created by God? Wonderful imagery.
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 04/14/2005 03:12:13 PM
Very nice picture. The building sort of gets lost in the beauty of the mountains. They kind of blend in a little with the mountain side. I think a closer view of the building might have worked a little better.
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 04/14/2005 01:55:46 PM
one of my personal top3;) 8
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 04/14/2005 11:27:22 AM
How can we compete with this?
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 04/14/2005 09:41:20 AM
nice shot. the darkness of the sky on the left distracts me though.
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 04/14/2005 07:48:39 AM
very nice
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 04/14/2005 07:34:36 AM
The colors in the photo are striking. Composition is exceptional and clarity is great. Should do well. Good luck!
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 04/13/2005 10:59:05 PM
One of the best submissions in this challenge in my opinion.
Composition is as good as it gets, color levels not over-saturated, great detail and a pleasant subject matter. You got my 10. Hope to see this one of the home page.
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 04/13/2005 09:25:07 PM
Beautiful
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 04/13/2005 06:01:43 PM
Great scene. I would have liked you to be a little closer to the buildings. Maybe less sky would have let you do that.
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 04/13/2005 01:00:43 PM
Not bad, and I'd like it even more if the buildings took up a bit more of the composition.
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 04/13/2005 12:11:14 PM
Nice photo, I like the use of the background.
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 04/13/2005 09:15:12 AM
Beautiful color and composition. Love the subject placement and angle.
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 04/13/2005 08:33:26 AM
WOW! 10
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 04/13/2005 08:10:29 AM
A very nice subject, but I feel that somehow it be composed in a more dramatic way...7
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 04/13/2005 06:55:39 AM
Great Color. Sharpness & Detail make it life like. 7.
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 04/13/2005 05:22:18 AM
Great picture ! I give you 9.
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 04/13/2005 03:45:56 AM
Klassík! :)
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 04/13/2005 12:56:47 AM
this one is a winner 10
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