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Challenge: Boats (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Location: Cannon Rocks, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Date: May 25, 2008
Aperture: f/4
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/100sec, 1/320sec
Galleries: Seascapes, Transportation
Date Uploaded: May 25, 2008

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Statistics
Place: 15 out of 162
Avg (all users): 6.5544
Avg (commenters): 7.1765
Avg (participants): 6.1667
Avg (non-participants): 6.8174
Views since voting: 1486
Views during voting: 428
Votes: 193
Comments: 20
Favorites: 3 (view)


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06/02/2008 02:23:54 AM
This is such a wonderful capture! I love the sky and the detail on the boat.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/01/2008 04:23:24 PM
What a treasure!
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05/30/2008 09:10:38 PM
Love the poit of view, awsome colors, terrific sharpness really brings out the texture. Very well done. Bumping Up.
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05/30/2008 01:15:34 PM
I originally scored your photo at 9. On second look I can't find any reason why I wouldn't give it a 10. So, 10 it is.
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05/30/2008 11:37:25 AM
That fill flash / reflector is almost a bit much, giving it a surreal quality. Bur OTOH, how else could you have brought out all those wonderful textures and colours, that really make the picture? I feel mesmerized. Thumbs up!
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05/29/2008 02:24:28 PM
Nice impact and POV, good colors, maybe a little too much vignetting in the upper right corner. Well done.
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05/29/2008 01:10:42 PM
seems to be a glow around the boat? better control with your masking or a little less tone mapping, its a shame because it is a nice photo. The polarizer? created a nice blue pop and some interestesting clouds
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05/29/2008 09:39:10 AM
A bit over processed for me. For me and the whole HDR/processing stuff, my feeling is this...if you are going to do it, do it to the extent that you create something totally unexpected. I would exptect to see a rusted wreck with brown, red and algae. I would not exptect to see a rusted wreck shown in sublte colors (see my point?) I guess my feeling is really summed up this way...photography is 95% talent, 5% luck. Digital photograpy is 95% talent, 5% luck and an additionl 50% creativity, reserve the majority of the creativity for taking the talent into the art.

This shot shows a huge amount of talent, without all of the editing. I would love to see it as it was before you started "playing" with it.

I would consider cropping on the left so that the boat just kisses the edge of the shot. You've almost got it, but I still see some blue at the top.
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05/28/2008 09:24:01 PM
Ah, the old rusty ship on a bluesky day. I like it, but the nose connecting into something over my head makes for an intense feeling of being there.
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05/28/2008 02:35:04 PM
A very interesting subject. The colors and lighting is good. I like how the texture and color of the boat appears allthough it is the shady side. IMO the cropping is too tight on the left side.
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05/28/2008 11:30:27 AM
Very nice of the clouds to form such a lovely framing! Great detail on the hull.
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05/27/2008 02:01:41 PM
Impressive rust! Generally like the perspective but kind of wish you hadn't cut off the bits on the left.
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05/27/2008 12:01:11 PM
nice sky colors and detail
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05/26/2008 04:07:30 PM
Great find... love the PP. 7
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05/26/2008 03:02:43 PM
Wow, what a ship! Great processing...the crop/framing may be a wee bit tight, tho
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05/26/2008 01:36:16 PM
Dramatic processing, very nice. I sort of wish I could see all of the boat and that the horizon wasn't tilted, but that's just nit-picking.
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05/26/2008 04:00:34 AM
I wish you did not crop so tight & showed more of the wonderful sky. 6
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05/25/2008 10:43:55 PM
great textures here, maybe a bit over processed with your dodge and burning, but the composition and detail looks great.
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05/25/2008 08:37:33 PM
nice contrast and colour...good detail throughout...
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05/25/2008 08:19:37 PM
Nice contrast with the sky
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