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Challenge: Time Capsule (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4.0-5.6 III
Location: Spiedie Fest
Date: Aug 6, 2005
Aperture: f6.3
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/1000
Galleries: Candid, Transportation
Date Uploaded: Aug 9, 2005

 It's all about "GLAM"!
The year my husband was conceived...1957.
The year the car was made and sold...1957 Chevy.

Processed more than I have others, but it's only levels and hue/sat adjustments with some blur and some sharp (yes both at different stages)....resized and saved for web.

Interested to find out what y'all think about this one. (oh, and I >am< hoping for something above a 6...if that's not asking too much)

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After challenge comments:

Taken at a the balloon rally after the balloons had launched. The owner of the car is quite the enthusiast since these are just 2 of 4 (or more) manequins he set up.

Exposure: Yes, it was dark inside the car so I started to play with levels. When I realized I would need more than "basic" editing to acheive a normal, well-balanced photo, I decided to see if I could go a different direction. I noticed that a combination of levels, hue/sat, and odd (to me) settings on the USM would bring out the graphic lines of the car.

I knew when I did it that it wasn't really "high-key" but I didn't care, I liked the effect I was getting.

I also know that the highlights are "blown" "over-exposed" "washed-out" and I intended that after I began experimenting within the editing rules. Consider this "deliberate over-exposure" if you will.

The "Guy": I could have easily cropped him out, so why didn't I? That section of the photo with it's cool blue tones adds balance to hot Marilyn and all her reds. I felt she needed the audience for her apparent giggle. I was looking for movie-screen like dimensions and there was nothing to the left.

The comments & score: I am absolutely floored by the 30 comments received during the challenge! THANK YOU, all! I had fun watching the score bop up and down all week--I've never seen such a yo-yo effect! It went everywhere from a 5.2 to a 6.0! Who knew where it would stop.

Statistics
Place: 48 out of 298
Avg (all users): 5.7367
Avg (commenters): 6.4615
Avg (participants): 5.4915
Avg (non-participants): 5.9141
Views since voting: 1480
Views during voting: 499
Votes: 281
Comments: 35
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 08/20/2005 12:03:42 PM
This image would make a very good high key image and has a good start to that end. However, I believe the transition between bright and dark areas of the image is way too harsh giving it the feel of overexposed rather than high key.

IMO, for high key to work all important detail should still be present with a nice even flow from bright to dark kind of like fading.
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 08/20/2005 08:41:31 AM
Neat shot, excellent editing, I like the way you have used the curves of the car's lines, really evokes the era
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 08/18/2005 02:59:10 PM
Good grief! I didn't vote in this challenge, but I am dismayed at the number of commentators who obviously feel that the 'blown' portions of this image (and any image, I suspect) are by definition 'bad photography'. Of course, people are entitled to be narrow-minded. But surely they should at least have the wit to recognise that the photographer clearly intended the effect in this case, and isn't now sitting reading their comments, slapping her forehead and saying, "What was I thinking ... how could I have missed that?".
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 08/18/2005 02:55:24 PM
I think using 'curves' in photoshop would have helped.
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 08/17/2005 03:09:52 PM
great shot ,
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/16/2005 06:29:39 PM
Very nice image. Might work even better without the face on the right edgr. Still my top pick this challenge!
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 08/16/2005 04:05:38 AM
Wax Museum? Nice high-key approach...
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 08/15/2005 01:47:24 PM
This is one of my favorites for this challenge. I like the overexposed area framing the main subject.
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 08/15/2005 11:18:24 AM
The glare is a little distracting but this is an excellent pic and an original concept.
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 08/15/2005 07:34:31 AM
very high key looking, but upon further study, perhaps you just cranked the levels to make the face show up? Her face is still underexposed. and why not crop a bit more on the right and lose the fellow? he does not add to the composition, but rather detracts from it.
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 08/15/2005 06:09:18 AM
Hmmm...a bit too washed out along the front and bottom, but it does give it a certain look. 8
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 08/13/2005 03:12:06 AM
Like the way you captured 1957. Good job
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 08/12/2005 08:42:34 PM
6 - Good effort to capture the era for the Challenge (in my opinion, this shot put into a time capsule for this year captures it well - albeit 'highly stylized). Criticism; whilst I like the dummies - 'he' looks less real than 'her', so for me, detracts. So, in my opinion, either a blurring out more or a cropping out of him, would make this a better photograph in my opinion. I like the colors and the contrast, the lighting too, but just a tiny bit 'blown' (but I'm guessing that's what you were going for) in my opinion. Creative though, you went to a lot of trouble.
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 08/12/2005 01:47:15 PM
Damn! I really, really, really want to love this photo, (I still have a crush on Marilyn from when I was a kid) but the burned out parts on the car, windshield and mirror just aren't helping here. I get that you were going for a stylized shot but as mentioned before I think keeping the detail of the classic car would make this shot blow you away.
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 08/12/2005 12:30:19 PM
oo- did you have your flash on? or is that the sun?
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 08/12/2005 04:32:45 AM
Love this shot - great composition and lighting. The washed out highlights really work here to frame the subject .
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 08/11/2005 07:18:13 PM
if she were real, I'd love this!
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 08/11/2005 06:50:52 PM
Great shot!
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 08/11/2005 10:21:20 AM
Sorry, but WOW. 9

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 08/11/2005 10:17:23 AM
I really like this shot, but I wish the exterior of the car wasn't so blown out.
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 08/11/2005 06:40:47 AM
My personal choice for a ribbon
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 08/11/2005 04:19:45 AM
a pity the car is so overexposed
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 08/10/2005 10:31:10 PM
Nice.
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 08/10/2005 08:56:41 PM
The high key effect is really cool. I wish the side window wasn't cutting through Marilyn's face.
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 08/10/2005 08:15:47 PM
The stylization of this image is just great. I want to like it even more, but the post- processing is too much for me. The white is too bright (on the car and her teeth), the red of her lips is too red, and I am not sure if the blue I see around her eyes is eye shadow, effects of the processing, or just my eyes seeing things. 6
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 08/10/2005 03:06:11 PM
Seems too overblown, is taht a doll in the seat?
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 08/10/2005 11:20:28 AM
you have captured this time period well.
The over exposed highlights work a trat with this editing.
Great shot
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 08/10/2005 08:54:37 AM
Way too bright.
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 08/10/2005 07:08:20 AM
great high key image...one of the best images here..well done.
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 08/10/2005 05:40:31 AM
The image is over exposed
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 08/09/2005 10:37:02 PM
way too bright
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 08/09/2005 10:30:25 PM
very nice :)
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 08/09/2005 10:24:16 PM
Great idea however the image is blown IMHO. Maybe you should have gone to a high key image?
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 08/09/2005 08:35:55 PM
I love the shinyness!! but the manicans kind of freak me out... nevertheless, a 7 from me!
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 08/09/2005 08:32:07 PM
Excellent job, very creative, great colors and model! WOW! Awesome!
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