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dark music
dark music
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Best of 2006 (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix A345
Location: woods behind my house
Date: Jan 8, 2006
Aperture: f4.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/450 sec
Date Uploaded: Jan 8, 2007

An aged tree, long dead, taken last January on a chill day on a stark ridge; the shape and texture really appealed to me...levels, curves, lab sharpening, channel mixer for monotone adjustments, small areas of dodging on limbs, cloned out a small branch at top, crop..

Statistics
Place: 318 out of 712
Avg (all users): 5.8225
Avg (commenters): 6.8182
Avg (participants): 5.7228
Avg (non-participants): 6.1250
Views since voting: 959
Views during voting: 439
Votes: 355
Comments: 22
Favorites: 2 (view)


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/25/2007 11:23:42 AM
mysterious and evocative...I can hear the eerie music playing...
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01/25/2007 01:45:07 AM
Interesting photo. Title fits it well. There is a movement in the curves of the branches that reminds me of music. Nice tonal range.
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01/24/2007 05:43:29 PM
i can hear the screaming in the wind. nicely captured.
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01/24/2007 06:10:18 AM
Love the contrast and detail here... 9 from me
:o)
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01/23/2007 07:28:11 PM
Very, very nice!
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01/23/2007 05:14:36 PM
probably wont do well in this challenge, but i love this dark, dramatic and just about forbidding/foreboding photograph .... stunning and wow ... =10
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01/21/2007 04:06:19 PM
This one works for me.....
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01/20/2007 06:15:35 PM
wow..creepy tree.. i love it.
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01/15/2007 09:30:52 AM
Dark indeed.
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01/15/2007 07:55:13 AM
Good of B&W choice - brings out detail.
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01/15/2007 03:12:45 AM
post apocaliptic theme :wink ... good processing, black branches are too dark, with more visible details it would make a difference
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01/14/2007 11:48:11 PM
Quite intense - and the dynamic range is excellently handled.
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01/13/2007 02:13:30 PM
eperspective and dramatic toning. Good luck!
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01/13/2007 01:19:32 PM
Interesting that you title this with music. I hear really sistrurbing noises. Its like looking at clouds, I see all sorts of shapes in theis frightening tree. All of them are really fierce animals. A bird-snake with horns, a skelatal dog, a giant rooster, something else with a big nose and more horns. This is defiantely the stuff of nightmares,
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01/13/2007 11:57:41 AM
B&W works really good here, well done.
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01/12/2007 04:57:19 PM
it IS dark.
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01/12/2007 07:05:48 AM
one of the best titles I've ever seen, it transformed the way I looked at the image. good stuff, 9
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01/11/2007 08:58:42 PM
Very good B&W with emotion...
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01/11/2007 08:26:48 PM
Love the dark contrasty feel to this
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01/11/2007 08:19:14 PM
Great contrast an perspective, very cool shot! 8
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01/11/2007 07:48:13 PM
Very cool image. A good tonal range. It is dark and brooding. Nice job.
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01/11/2007 07:43:42 PM
Hey, I'm not sure how you missed it but this is a picture of a dark tree. Maybe there was some dark music in that other shot and you submitted the wrong one.

I just had my friend verify, this is defintely a tree not music.


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