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Challenge: Hate (Basic Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Feb 17, 2007
Aperture: 4.0
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Emotive, Political
Date Uploaded: Feb 18, 2007

 Cross-burning is emblematic of much of America's history of racial intolerance.

Tonal differentiations obtained by shooting through a perforated metal sheet mounted in a bus window, then "enhanced" with Tone Curves.

-RGB Curve 1
-RGB Curve 2
-Blue/Yellow Curve
-Crop/rotate to final size
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 8/10 = 140kb

File: HoleyCross_IMG_6906-DPC8-2.jpg

Statistics
Place: 130 out of 132
Avg (all users): 3.6368
Avg (commenters): 2.3333
Avg (participants): 3.4348
Avg (non-participants): 3.6893
Views since voting: 1274
Views during voting: 336
Votes: 223
Comments: 19
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 07/23/2009 08:11:22 PM
Originally posted by JulietNN:
yah, i think you have beat all my pills.

all i can say is add some zeros, take it to Sedona and mount it and you will make a friggin fortune


You know what? Juliet is absolutely right.
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 07/23/2009 06:52:13 PM
oh it does look crooked though
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 07/23/2009 06:51:48 PM
yah, i think you have beat all my pills.

all i can say is add some zeros, take it to Sedona and mount it and you will make a friggin fortune
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/04/2007 10:49:47 AM
Yea..Thanks Alot from the Critique Club
A random click and I get your brown!! hahaha
What can I say Paul, I think you clearly did in this photo what you set out to do. I appreciate the artistic sentiment expressed by trying to burn a cross in basic editing.
Alot of imagination went into shooting this with an eye to the final result and I have no doubt you did what you wanted.
That said, just really not to my tastes. I am not a fan personally of such abstract pieces, but that said, I do not think the colours really make me "feel" the message of the shot.
I applaud your courage and OTB thinking :)
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 03/01/2007 10:50:35 AM
Originally posted by posthumous:
brilliant brownness. this is conceptually fascinating, beautiful to look at, out of the box, and shows a sophisticated openness to what can be achieved photographically, all within basic editing rules. this picture's a champ as far as I'm concerned.

Thanks!

For reference, here is the (resized) original from which I cropped this.



I was trying to achieve the look of flames around the cross within the Basic rules, so I wanted to get a photo of a cross with a surrounding gradient to which I could apply the tone variations. I liked the way the flaw in the domed roof makes it look like molten metal running down from the cross.

I don't speak French either, but I'm pretty sure the title means "The Cross in Flames" or a close variation ... maybe I should have just titled it the more prosaic "Cross-Burning" instead.
 02/28/2007 05:31:32 AM
brilliant brownness. this is conceptually fascinating, beautiful to look at, out of the box, and shows a sophisticated openness to what can be achieved photographically, all within basic editing rules. this picture's a champ as far as I'm concerned.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/28/2007 01:47:24 AM
Congratulations. Good to see SC spans the whole range of technical ability.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/23/2007 08:19:56 PM
just not feeling it as much as the others.
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 02/22/2007 06:48:25 PM
Way too much processing for my taste. Kind of steps out of the realm of photography.
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 02/22/2007 04:43:07 PM
Am I supposed to hate the editing? Because if that is the case, then you have suceeded. 2
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 02/22/2007 01:54:35 PM
Great title and colours. Interesting work :)
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 02/21/2007 10:51:39 PM
That's the risk of entering extreme images: some people like it, some don't. I don't (3)
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 02/21/2007 03:31:29 PM
I dont really like the effect... it distracts from the image.
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 02/21/2007 11:41:39 AM
I don't get it. Maybe because I don't speak French.
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 02/21/2007 07:33:53 AM
I'm having trouble with this image... It's not exposed, focused, balanced, or really anything very well. I'm sure with some thinking I could somehow relate it to the challenge, but it's not jumping out at me. And to do well in these competitions, it needs to.
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 02/21/2007 07:25:25 AM
I'm sorry... I don't really care for the post-processing. :( Try keeping the saturation at a more normal rate next time, maybe that will help!
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 02/21/2007 07:04:16 AM
sorry, I don't understand how is it related to hate (or I don't want to...)
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 02/20/2007 07:27:10 PM
very artsy. It will most certainly not score high though. Probably because it looks more like digital art, than a photograph. Good luck.
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 02/20/2007 07:13:15 PM
I dont realy get it, + I realy dont like the BG colours
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