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Melethia


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Challenge: High Contrast II (Basic Editing III)
Collection: Challenges 2006
Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Lens: Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS
Location: Boston, MA
Date: Sep 28, 2006
Aperture: f/5.0
ISO: 320
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Architecture
Date Uploaded: Oct 3, 2006

 Downtown Boston at the start of the Freedom Trail walk. The smaller building in the foreground is the Old State House, which cleverly disguises a "T" (subway) stop. Not only is the photograph relatively contrasty, but you also get the contrast in architecture style, age and height. I'm pretty sure this shot has been done hundreds of times, but it's the first time I've taken it. :-)

From the medium JPEG shot in B&W - crop, levels, sharpen, resize.

Statistics
Place: 222 out of 396
Avg (all users): 5.2022
Avg (commenters): 5.0000
Avg (participants): 4.9759
Avg (non-participants): 5.3900
Views since voting: 825
Views during voting: 213
Votes: 183
Comments: 5
Favorites: 0

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 10/15/2006 06:09:34 PM
Wow - no comments in challenge. I have had some that I thought were gonna come close but you did it. I guess that and the score you received is a realtive good thing. It may not have been good enough to get the "Great Job" comments but at the same time it didnt get the "This Sucks" comments either. I thinkn you hit the two areas that made me give this a 5. Not enough contrast - I was expecting a more radical contrast effect or feel. And not a wow pic. A bit boring from the initial open. Technicals seem fine and blah blah blah. But if we are going the route of the reaction club then I think you have the issues pegged.
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 10/14/2006 05:56:00 AM
I'm not a good judge of contrast. That's why I didn't enter this one. It's funny, you wrote in a thread that I said it was boring. (It was Kirsty). The sky seems really flat and it seems you only have light on a very small portion of one building.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/13/2006 09:26:13 PM
I didnt get to this one >.< But yeah needs more contrast in my eyes
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 10/11/2006 04:33:41 AM
um...its nice, but I don't see it scoring that much higher - seems like maybe it could have done with a touch more contrast, but I think more importantly its be done so much before that it would have needed to really "wow" to get noticed
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 10/10/2006 08:26:43 PM
Not enough contrast? Boring? And how sad is it that I'm leaving myself the only comment? Heh....


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