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Snowy Meters
Snowy Meters
Rebecca


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Challenge: Pattern II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon Coolpix 5400
Location: Lakewood, CO
Date: Dec 21, 2006
Galleries: Urban, Textures
Date Uploaded: Dec 21, 2006

 Electricity meters after the 2006 Holiday Blizzard.

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Hue/Sat: shift Master left into red
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Selective Color: mess with reds and yellows a bit
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Hue/Sat: shift red left, slight red desat, slight red darken
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Hue/Sat: shift yellow rightward
Curves: red channel
Color Balance: Highlight channel, slight shifts into blue & cyan
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Post-challenge commentary:
(1) It's not crooked - it's leveled by the bricks. If I had leveled it by the meters, the building would very clearly slope off to the right. Though I do wish I'd been able to do something about the barrel distortion.
(2) Repetition constitutes a pattern by definition. Here you have it twice, in the pattern of the bricks and the repetition of the meters.
(3) If you think the color is too dull, wow, you should have seen the original - everything in it was practically gray!

Statistics
Place: 151 out of 250
Avg (all users): 5.2297
Avg (commenters): 5.8750
Avg (participants): 4.9610
Avg (non-participants): 5.3864
Views since voting: 616
Views during voting: 272
Votes: 209
Comments: 9
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/02/2007 06:44:30 PM
I'm not so sure I consider symmetry a pattern. Since this could be argued either way, I'll abstain from voting on this particular image. Sorry.
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 01/02/2007 08:44:00 AM
Neat photo on the whole (nice "found" pattern). I would have liked to have seen a bit more attention to composition either in the shot or in the processing (a bit more cropping of the top, which seems to detract from the shot for my eye), and a bit more brightness to the color differences (especially as there are only three main colors in the image).
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/02/2007 05:50:13 AM
brrrr
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 01/02/2007 12:57:01 AM
nice composition here. Simplistic looks good
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 12/31/2006 12:57:31 PM
I think a tighter crop on just the top row of meters and the straightening of the horizon level would have really made this good picture a great picture.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/28/2006 02:34:01 PM
Love it
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 12/27/2006 07:39:20 PM
I love this, but personally I would have cropped in tighter from the top...to make the machinery more dominant, and more of an abstract..?
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 12/27/2006 10:56:33 AM
It's crooked!!!!
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 12/27/2006 09:22:59 AM
Might have been better at an angle from the side to see some depth with the meter and the snow, lens distortion at the top of the bricks
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