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Challenge: Image Grain II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G2
Location: Old Mystic, CT
Date: Mar 13, 2007
Aperture: f5.6
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Architecture, Infrared
Date Uploaded: Mar 12, 2007

 infrared photo of what I believe is a shell of an old stone house, that someone has attempted to renovate. I liked the almost terrifying look of the clouds against the texture of the stone. I am hopeful about this one, and that's usually a bad sign. not sure if it's grainy enough.

This was an 11th hour replacement of a picture that was much more simplistic. The replaced picture had a look of antiquity, where this one is much more dismal looking.

Taken at lowest resolution jpeg, at highest ISO. Processing: slight crop to remove very bottom of frame (could see the attempted renovation in the form of concrete foundation). Hue/sat adjustment layer to remove cyan cast. Selective color layer for toning. Levels and curves layers. Save as PSD. Flatten, small amount of USM, then added Noise (around 3%, monochromatic, gaussian). Added border. would have loved to have been able to use Advanced editing on this one.

Statistics
Place: 70 out of 399
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Avg (commenters): 6.4286
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Votes: 187
Comments: 9
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 03/22/2007 06:52:07 AM
Cool image, Steve - I liked this image in the challenge - especially the rough looking sky. The colors are very surreal - especially with the brownish sky and the pinkish grey stone structure. I have driven past this building countless times and thought about photographing it - but I am usually with the Fam and they would rather not sit alongside the road and wait for me - it's the one on the hill above Old Mystic, right?

I guess now that you have claimed this building, I will need to find another ramshackled structure to photograph..

Nice work.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/20/2007 01:19:46 PM
You got the pictur.... nice...
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 03/19/2007 07:38:09 AM
cool sky. i like the building, it adds more interest and character to this image. nice job.
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 03/19/2007 02:33:03 AM
wow .. wot an excellent image ... that amazing sky with the shell of a building ... OMG the combination is awesome ...
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 03/17/2007 06:30:20 PM
very interesting, visually appealing--great sky and details.
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 03/17/2007 10:31:11 AM
Is this infrared? Very atmospheric and a great shot, love the cropping and the clouds
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 03/16/2007 12:21:26 PM
IR is not as bad with some grain on it! 6
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 03/15/2007 02:16:05 PM
Perhaps a bit more grain for my liking would have made this shot more powerful. I still like the impact and quality
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 03/14/2007 12:55:33 PM
Very dramatic clouds ... I think they're clouds. And I like the irony of the intact gate when all the windows are missing. Makes for an interesting image.
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