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1887 Granite
1887 Granite
cbeller


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Challenge: Textures II (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Minolta DiMAGE Z1
Location: Denver, IN
Date: Feb 14, 2004
Aperture: F8.0
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/800
Galleries: Vintage, Emotive
Date Uploaded: Feb 15, 2004

 Taken at a small cemetary outside of Denver, IN. Hopefully people feel this meets the challenge.

Adjsted levels, converted to grayscale, back to RGB, Hue/Saturation for sepia, crop, resize, USM, then ran through Neat Image.

Statistics
Place: 108 out of 406
Avg (all users): 5.6046
Avg (commenters): 6.5000
Avg (participants): 5.3571
Avg (non-participants): 6.0421
Views since voting: 1001
Votes: 263
Comments: 18
Favorites: 0

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 02/25/2004 03:45:10 AM
Greetings from the Critique Club:

Hits: This is a well composed natural gradient photo. The exposure looks about right. Sharpness is good and there isn't much noise. The overall tones have fine aesthetics.

Misses: Texture is downplayed here in the stone at this angle and with this light. The granite looks is pretty smooth, so it's really the engraving, the overall shape of the stone, and the clouds that represent surface texture here. And the engraving is not even very visible here.

Ideas. Perhaps another source of light from an assistant angled onto the stone would have brought out the engraving. I think a perspective shift might have made it more dynamic as well: perhaps you could have captured the stone angling on the diagonal of the shot, with an even sharper perspective. Or found a stone with a broken off area so an unsmoothed area of the granite were visible.

Nice picture overall!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/24/2004 01:04:24 PM
Great shot, well taken. It doesn't make me think textures when I look at it, but I still really like it.
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 02/24/2004 10:20:41 AM
i like the toning and perspective.
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 02/24/2004 06:36:31 AM
Great textures and a beautiful sky. Your choice of color has made this a somewhat omnious shot. Nice job.
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 02/23/2004 12:00:43 PM
Very nice shot. Contrast of the marble to the sky is well done. Since this is a 'Texture' challenge, you may actually need to be closer to the marble to fit better.
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 02/22/2004 06:17:31 PM
Looks IR, very nice.
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 02/22/2004 10:02:55 AM
Great picture! Love the sky its dynamic! Great job - 10
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 02/21/2004 11:52:58 PM
Nice texture and I like the sepia tone.
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 02/21/2004 09:31:21 PM
I would have liked to be able to read what is engraved in the stone.. Good angle, though.
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 02/21/2004 01:50:09 AM
Great sky, but the location of te monument is a little far to thr right, I thnk...
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 02/21/2004 01:34:58 AM
Fantastic sepia tone
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 02/20/2004 08:23:27 AM
Kind of that erie scary movie feeling. Great shot.
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 02/20/2004 04:14:25 AM
Good composition - very strong on graphic elements. The light is too harsh, too directional to promote a sense of texture though - simply enough, with the inscription being barely distinct you're harly likely to have captured a feel of the surfces of that stone.
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 02/19/2004 09:17:06 PM
Maybe more detail in the front of the stone? 6
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 02/19/2004 07:47:23 PM
Great shot, nice POV and choice of sepia.
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 02/19/2004 12:17:33 AM
looks almost rendered. Good shot and even better composition.
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 02/18/2004 07:32:36 PM
This idea has real potential. I don't like the angle of the stone, but I do like the tones and the sky.
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 02/18/2004 12:22:13 AM
Wish I could read what it says on the statue... Th esepia tones are good, makes it loko more interesting, the sky also looks really nice.
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