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Challenge: Nightmares (Basic Editing)
Collection: 2007 Challenges
Camera: Canon PowerShot A700
Location: my place
Date: Jul 8, 2007
Aperture: f3.2
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/8
Galleries: Emotive, Architecture
Date Uploaded: Jul 9, 2007

I have often had this nightmare and am sure many others have too. Some self-plagiarism here - yep, that's the same copper tea-candle house I fired up for Heat last year.

pp: shadow/highlight, curves, contrast, saturation, crop, resize, unsharp mask, save for web

Statistics
Place: 49 out of 171
Avg (all users): 5.7026
Avg (commenters): 7.2000
Avg (participants): 5.6066
Avg (non-participants): 5.7463
Views since voting: 1336
Views during voting: 284
Votes: 195
Comments: 10
Favorites: 0


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01/28/2008 05:14:56 AM
Great picture. I love the angle
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07/30/2007 01:41:46 AM
Wow - what a great and thorough comment from Larus! I'm amazed that this thing burns so nicely, yet can be re-used. Excellent job capturing the flame, which I find very hard to do well.
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07/24/2007 06:02:44 AM
Greetings from the critique club :)

I didn´t vote in the challenge but if I had, I would probably have voted this a 6. It´s very visually striking and you could have fooled me about it not being a doll size house, I did notice there was something that wasn´t right about the scale of the flames vs. the house but like I said, had you not written it in your comments section I would never have been sure. I do like the colors in this shot and that bush or tree silhouette in the backround really makes the shot work, without it the photo would have been too two dimensional so good placement of the model.

The whole shot is a bit too dark for my taste though, I wish you had taken it a bit earlier in the day but still during dusk to show the surroundings more, maybe that would have been worse but that´s the vibe I get from the photo, it needed to be a bit brighter.

Also, the photo seems a bit soft, I would have preferred it sharper, I noticed you use a 1/8th shutterspeed? That´s all good if you used a tripod, if you didn´t that would explain the slight blurry nature of the photo. I took the liberty of looking up your entry in "Heat" and this is miles better so you have really improved since last year, no doubt :)

Kind regards from Iceland, Lárus.
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07/18/2007 05:53:03 PM
A nightmare of my own - effectively scary.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/12/2007 08:06:47 AM
is it a toy house? because thast a great idea. I may have to play around with that myself, thanks the ideas!!
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07/11/2007 05:55:45 PM
awesome image - that is quite a nightmare! good colors and composition
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07/11/2007 01:58:35 PM
the horizon needs to be leveled
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07/11/2007 07:12:55 AM
wow... do you burn this house just fo rthis challenge? ;)
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07/11/2007 05:14:29 AM
Nice shot.
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07/10/2007 08:28:19 PM
I like the definition of the flames in this one ;-)
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