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Challenge: Leading Lines III (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Selby Park, Worthington, OH
Date: Sep 15, 2006
Aperture: 5.7
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Action, Children
Date Uploaded: Sep 15, 2006
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Was hoping for something more dramatic for this challenge. Playing at the playground I took a couple of these shots of Rowan climbing up this ladder thingee. Nothing amazing but I really like this shot. I want to try and emulate some of the success that  metatate has had with pictures of his daughter. Hoepfully this will be the first of more to come.
Post process - levels, desat yellows and greens, saturated the rest, lightened, curves, selective color adjustments, increased canvas size for border and stroked, USM, resize for web. No cropping or rotating - I am getting better at envisoning my end product I guess.
Post Challenge - My decision to do the selective desat was primarily because of how much diustracting elements there were int he background between colors and stuff. Looking back at it I relaize that slightly reducing the background colors would have possibly had a better effect. Staright black and white didnt work. |
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10/05/2006 06:15:31 AM |
Trading post...
Nice lines! I don't really care for the selective desat. I didn't vote in this challenge but probably would have gone 5 or 6. While the lines intially lead you up to your daughter, the red after that pulls you to the side which seems to have some kind of weird tilt to it. |
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10/03/2006 02:49:40 PM |
| Rowan this time! Not sure about the desat, but reading your explanation, I can understand why you did it. I don't mind "busy" when it serves a purpose, and it doesn't bother me here at all. In fact it serves as kind of a neat contrast - all the busy hard lines and and metal and plastic edges comtrasted with a lovely little girl and her concentration. |
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09/28/2006 07:46:24 PM |
I see what you were going with on the selective desat, but I'm not sure it works. This is coming from a guy who likes selective desat (not everybody on the site does). A good example is the group of bars on the upper right. They don't help and the desat actually makes them worse.
I like what you were going for, but probably the setting was just too jumbled (which you sensed) for a great leading lines shot. The little man is quite cute though. I love overalls. |
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09/28/2006 03:22:44 PM |
| Glad not so many people agreed with me and that you got a decent score ;-) |
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09/26/2006 07:21:47 PM |
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09/24/2006 01:57:21 PM |
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09/22/2006 11:10:53 AM |
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09/21/2006 11:08:38 AM |
| The red color and the subject made the shoot. Nice catch. |
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09/21/2006 07:51:36 AM |
| good composition. I'd love to see this as a black/white. |
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09/20/2006 08:10:13 AM |
| I wonder if this is basic editing? |
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09/20/2006 06:29:31 AM |
| The composition is very good and so is the subject. The desat effect cheapens the image and in playing to the gallery I think that you have lost much of beauty in it. I would have chosen black and white or duotone to present this. The frame works well. |
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