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SPIKE: Strong & Stable
SPIKE: Strong & Stable
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Challenge: Trains & Railroads (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Minolta DiMAGE 7i
Location: Railroad Tracks @phone company-Statessboro, GA
Date: Oct 20, 2006
Aperture: F/4
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Cityscape, Macro
Date Uploaded: Oct 21, 2006

 Cropped, Magnetic Lasso Tool to capture spike for contrast/brightness, saturation, sepia & cyan photo filters and to invert region in order to desaturate & adjust brightness, finally deselected in order to sharpen 3X, Resize, and Save for Web

Statistics
Place: 138 out of 196
Avg (all users): 5.2103
Avg (commenters): 6.6000
Avg (participants): 5.2121
Avg (non-participants): 5.2087
Views since voting: 766
Views during voting: 323
Votes: 214
Comments: 6
Favorites: 0

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 11/01/2006 11:09:44 AM
*Critique Club*

The concept is wonderful - as a previous comment stated, it was refreshing to see this interesting take on the challenge! Your post processing definitely seems to be effective - good contrast and sharpening. I particularly like the composition and depth of focus here. I also like how, while the spike and the background are pretty much the same color, they do stand out from one another.

The thing that, in my opinion, hurt the shot the most is the harsh shadow. It just attracts the eye a bit too much, so shooting at a different time of day or adding more lighting may have helped. Another thing that may have looked nicer is if the white spots (kind of in a parallel line to the black line) were removed either before the shot or in post processing. However, that is very nitpicky and I definitely didn't notice any problems with that at first glance.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/28/2006 03:12:28 PM
A little contrast on this, and I think it would have really brought it out.
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 10/27/2006 05:55:06 AM
Good DOF. I'd clone out the distracting white dots.
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 10/23/2006 05:05:55 PM
Um, yes. You went to the essentials. Nice composition, good colors.
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 10/23/2006 12:12:34 PM
Meets Challenge - 2
Creativity - 2
Technical Stuff - 2
Overall Appeal - 1
Biased Wow - 0
Total = 7
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 10/23/2006 10:58:04 AM
Very interesting and a new approach. A relief from the straight-on shots of trains.
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