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Challenge: Fire II (Advanced Editing IV)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Aug 10, 2006
Aperture: 3.7
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/2 second
Galleries: Abstract
Date Uploaded: Aug 11, 2006

 Zoomed-in and defocussed on a gas stove burner.

-Handheld
-Noise reduction with PictureCooler
-RGB Curve
-Resize for DPC
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH = 0 (second application)
-Rotate/crop
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 110kb

Statistics
Place: 156 out of 160
Avg (all users): 3.6898
Avg (commenters): 3.9286
Avg (participants): 3.4744
Avg (non-participants): 3.8440
Views since voting: 1020
Views during voting: 261
Votes: 187
Comments: 16
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 08/21/2006 03:02:45 PM
Missed it by that much ;-)
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 08/20/2006 09:55:22 PM
Archive Collection - Gas Burners
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/20/2006 02:40:54 PM
Not very focused, looks like just a blue line????
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 08/18/2006 08:55:27 PM
Nice title... seems like a newspaper headline and I like how that is paired with such an abstract image. I like this... I don't think that it really shows "fire" (would not do that without your title) but I do think it's a nice abstract.
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 08/17/2006 02:31:25 PM
Too close to the flame! It's just a blur :(
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 08/16/2006 07:04:38 PM
Another daring blue fire.
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 08/15/2006 11:02:12 PM
I don't know if you wanted it this way but it is to blurred for me. Nice colors and I would of liked to see it in focus or some detail.
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 08/15/2006 02:58:20 AM
interesting. maybe a little too subtle for the DPC crowd. good luck.
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 08/15/2006 02:37:52 AM
For me it's just a blue strip with nothing to really hint it could be Fire (MHO)
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 08/14/2006 07:03:21 PM
If you're going to use the word "focus" in your title, it's probably a good idea to make the photo as crisp as possible. As it stands, this is so blurry that I can't tell that it's a flame.
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 08/14/2006 05:57:12 PM
Maybe you needed a little more focus on the Natural Gas :-)
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 08/14/2006 01:05:52 PM
See to me it is not focused on anything. I get what you a trying for but to most without the title it is just a blue gradient. I see no fire in the shot. I hate to vote low but I am giving you a 3. It may meet the challenge but I can't see it.

Wazz
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 08/14/2006 11:45:18 AM
You can't tell what's going on in the image. I just see a blue streak across the photo.
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 08/14/2006 06:25:04 AM
More like 'out of focus' on natural gas...
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 08/14/2006 04:18:54 AM
its not that good...sorry :-(
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 08/13/2006 09:13:39 PM
I like it insofar as the blurry blue is appealing. I would have worked better if set against a 100% background above and below. As a person who has routinely gotten beaten down for submitting out of focus shots intentionally, I'm going to toss you an 8 just out of sympathy for how bad you are going to do.
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