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Challenge: Complementary Colors III (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Nikon D70
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
Location: Singapore
Date: Apr 20, 2006
Aperture: F/4.5
ISO: ISO-200
Shutter: 1/500 sec
Galleries: Travel, Seascapes
Date Uploaded: Apr 20, 2006

 Shot from the window of a plane on my way back into Singapore. Post processing was:

- Selective colouring to get the sea green and the boat (more) red
- Levels
- Hue / saturation adjustments
- Noise reduction and sharpening
- Crop


Post voting comments...

Thanks for all the votes and comments all. Very pleased to get a top 10. Especially as there were so many good entries this week. For all of those who asked, this was shot from a normal commercial flight. The sea was originally blue in the shot I took, but as soon as I saw the road boat, I knew I'd be able to get something along these lines as it was so striking a scene. In the end, it turned out tobe a bit of a rescue job with photoshop while staying within the basic editing rules. Would have loved to have had advanced editing on this to burn the boat, make it more red, dodge the lower left, remove the fringing, etc.

Anyway, thanks once again.

Statistics
Place: 9 out of 287
Avg (all users): 6.8074
Avg (commenters): 7.6190
Avg (participants): 6.7241
Avg (non-participants): 6.8470
Views since voting: 2666
Views during voting: 488
Votes: 270
Comments: 54
Favorites: 7 (view)

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 05/09/2006 03:59:03 AM
Hi there from the Critique Club

First of all, congrats on the top 10 finish, as well as your best scoring photograph to date! It is often very difficult to get a good shot from the window of a plane, but you did just that here. This was one of my favorites from the onset of voting in this challenge. Good eye in seeing this and putting together the way you did. The composition is my favorite element of the shot. The way the boat is slicing through at an angle almost allows the viewer's eye to see the movement and anticipation of its passing. This is a very nice use of minimalism to produce a well-deserved top 10. Great post-processing work to come up with colors that complement very, very well.
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 05/06/2006 03:22:16 AM
I liked this one. Very different. You don't normally see a ship in a big amount of negative space.
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 05/05/2006 03:20:55 AM
Right place, right time. Love the perspective. Great colours too. Lucky you had a reasonably clean window to shoot through too.

Congratulations on a top 10 finish.
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 05/03/2006 06:37:24 AM
I love this image, great job.
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 05/03/2006 02:52:36 AM
Congratulations on your top 10 finish. Very clever shot!
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 05/02/2006 11:02:21 PM
Congrats on the top ten placing. Very well deserved.
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 05/02/2006 09:42:24 PM
well done on the top 10, really well deserved
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 05/02/2006 08:35:59 PM
Beautiful entry. Congrats on the high finish.
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 05/02/2006 08:34:30 PM
Great use of negative space. Congrats on the top10. Most deserved :)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/02/2006 01:05:36 PM
Such a simple picture, barge on the water...but from a unique perspective, interestingly composed, and great color saturation. Beautiful shot!
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 05/02/2006 12:08:36 PM
nice flow
 05/02/2006 10:08:32 AM
Nice colouring, however obtained.
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 05/01/2006 03:04:32 PM
Well seen
 04/30/2006 03:24:27 PM
wow... green water - is this the hudson river? lol
 04/30/2006 01:48:54 PM
This image is very uninteresting...I'm sorry, I just don't like it.
 04/30/2006 01:44:58 PM
Interesting shot.
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 04/30/2006 01:38:31 PM
this is a very cool shot, was the water really that color? 8
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 04/30/2006 12:49:33 PM
wow almost looks not real at first, love the colors and that the boat is an reddish orange, very awesome pic for this colors challenge, this is a ten to me.

I also love how calm the water is in this shot and the color of the water
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 04/30/2006 12:18:00 PM
great colors. cant imagine where you must have been to capture that. beautiful!
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 04/30/2006 09:05:27 AM
Wonderful idea. One of my favouites. You've got an eye!
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 04/30/2006 08:49:21 AM
I think this is great. I hope it does well.
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 04/30/2006 07:23:10 AM
Love the simplicity!!!
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 04/30/2006 04:45:53 AM
fits the challenge interesting title too not so much for the photo itself 7 for now
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 04/30/2006 01:19:30 AM
Interesting photo, great complementry colours, definently meets the challenge.
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 04/29/2006 03:15:12 PM
excellent picture. Sharp, straight lines and of course complementary colours. I'd like to hear how you shot it (where you shot it from).
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 04/29/2006 12:42:24 PM
superb treatment of the theme of the challenge.
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 04/29/2006 11:09:08 AM
wow! this is a unique perspective and such a minimalist approach that it will score well ;) good luck!
 04/29/2006 10:52:49 AM
I love it, very cool shot !
 04/29/2006 10:29:53 AM
stellar capture I like the shift in the water color
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 04/29/2006 05:32:52 AM
good capture
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 04/29/2006 04:32:53 AM
Nicely done!
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 04/28/2006 10:28:34 PM
beautiful!
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 04/28/2006 01:15:00 PM
I LOVE this photo!!! The water is so calm and flawless, the ship is at just the right angle.
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 04/27/2006 03:14:22 PM
What a great picture this is. Read ship in the green ocean :-).
Good "natural" lighting, good focus, perfect capture and the cropping is perfect too.
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 04/27/2006 12:31:31 PM
This is one of the best I have seen so far. Nice color and the framing is perfect.
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 04/27/2006 08:20:29 AM
whoa. Quite striking and beautiful at how simple it is. Have you shifted the sea water towards green or is it the way it was? I'd dodged lower right corner, though.
 04/27/2006 06:15:04 AM
cool shot!!
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 04/27/2006 04:43:11 AM
Very curious where this was taken. It looks like from a very high bridge or a plane. I like the composition a lot, and the color seems strange but pleasing.
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 04/27/2006 04:21:14 AM
how did you make this picture? do you have friends in the helicopter bis?
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 04/27/2006 12:34:13 AM
Just Excellent!!!!!!!!! How did you get this shot? I hope your doing well with this, good luck! 9
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 04/26/2006 09:17:26 PM
I adore this shot. Great composition and fits the complementary colors theme perfectly.
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 04/26/2006 07:31:41 PM
Great shot. Unique composition and the empty space in the lower corner works great. I hope this does well for you. Bumping up.
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 04/26/2006 07:25:41 PM
WOW..... this is great.....
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 04/26/2006 06:07:36 PM
Great title. I like the diagonal sense of it too. Nice use of negative space. Thank GOD it isn't a flower. ;~D Good luck.
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 04/26/2006 04:50:00 PM
8 - Very good. Nice composition and capture.. Difficult, but a little more definition (although I realize likely there 'bigger') and perhaps a tweaking of the color, though likely very difficult and not sure as works well as is, just bordering on orange, but fairly minor, may have made this even better in my opinion. Water surface just seems a little 'odd', hard to explain, could be neat image but apologies in advance if wrong. Like the title.
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 04/26/2006 01:42:11 PM
Very nice. I like the use of negative space and the way you were able to meet the challenge with such an unusual scene. Great sense of movement in the ship, I half expect it to start coming down my screen!
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 04/26/2006 11:37:05 AM
Good eye.
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 04/26/2006 11:15:09 AM
might have cropped right and bottom for more dynamics, but neat image. 8
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 04/26/2006 08:48:05 AM
This is really nicely done.
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 04/26/2006 08:32:55 AM
I love this shot. Looks a bit smudged and would have prefered it to be more detailed, but still I think it's great.
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 04/26/2006 07:30:24 AM
Ooh, nice composition, and an interesting subject.
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 04/26/2006 05:31:42 AM
WOW!!!!!
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 04/26/2006 05:01:03 AM
Is the water really that green? Nice compostion.
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 04/26/2006 01:23:43 AM
great shot! is that neat image? maybe a little overdone if it is..but it's a great composition and I hope it does well for you
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