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Challenge: Free Study 2007-03 (Advanced Editing V)
Collection: Settings
Camera: Canon PowerShot A530
Location: Hamburg, NJ
Date: Mar 24, 2007
Aperture: 2.6
ISO: auto
Shutter: 60
Galleries: Architecture, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Mar 31, 2007

You have only to open the door. But first, you have only to reach the door. This is the door to a furnace that is rumored to have made cannonballs for the British during the Revolutionary War. It is right next to the Gingerbread Castle.

could not use neat image without blurring. crop and resize. calculations to black and white. curves. USM. then hue shift in hue saturation to make it sepiaish.

Statistics
Place: 186 out of 561
Avg (all users): 5.8718
Avg (commenters): 6.1250
Avg (participants): 5.8070
Avg (non-participants): 6.0476
Views since voting: 1306
Views during voting: 226
Votes: 156
Comments: 16
Favorites: 0


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04/08/2007 08:54:15 PM
And why would you have wanted to neat image it anyway?
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04/08/2007 08:35:55 AM
Greetings from the Critique Club.

This is underappreciated, if you ask me :)
Fantastic photo, with a lovely archaic feel to it.

I love the textures, that's the first thing that jumps out at you when you look at the photo. The composition is unusual, and therefore interesting (imo). The black and white works well.

Objections:
I don't like the fact the top of the door is in shadow, and that the branches in shadow seem to blur into one another. I think some subtle dodging and burning could've done miracles to fix that (eg. the plant climbing up the wall on the lower right seems to get lost in the shadow. Even very slight dodging of highlights totally brings it out)

Once you've used Neat Image, unsharp mask (40%, 4.3px) gets rid of the blurriness. However, I'm not sure that applying the two makes much difference to the image - I really can't see much noise to start off with.

Anyway, hope this helps. PM me if you have any questions.

Jelena
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04/08/2007 06:27:28 AM
You go first! Nice shot. I love old buildings. I think this would be a really cool shot at night especially with those branches hanging over like that. Good job
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04/08/2007 01:55:27 AM
I love this shot! I dunno...I just have a thing about old doors!
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04/07/2007 08:57:54 PM
you probably beat me by voting so low on mine..:)
wish I had done the same to you....I just couldn't....
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04/07/2007 08:41:44 PM
Congratulations on a strong finish,a 6 from me...

Message edited by author 2007-04-08 00:42:18.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/05/2007 09:50:10 AM
Nice tones, and interesting subject matter, but the structure and doorwary seem to just dangle in space without a grounding.
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04/03/2007 02:45:35 PM
absolutely beautiful, a great timeless picture! I like the tone
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04/03/2007 01:22:19 PM
I love photos like this. The old, old brick and door are so striking, and your processing is perfect to enhance the rich feel to this photo.
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04/03/2007 08:52:59 AM
Nice B&W conversion.
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04/03/2007 03:25:36 AM
Love the textures.
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04/02/2007 08:03:54 PM
I like. Very peaceful and like the B/W
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04/02/2007 07:58:11 PM
Simply effective.
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04/02/2007 07:03:04 AM
very nice texture
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04/01/2007 05:03:42 PM
Cool!!!
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04/01/2007 09:11:46 AM
Right then, joke's on me as I now have to plough through 564 images and bump them all (yes, all of them) up. There'll be a third run through for fine tuning.

Ouvrez-moi cette porte (s'il vous plait) :)

Bon ambience, bien choisis le monochrome, image bien equilibré. 7
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