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Life in the H.O.V Lane
Life in the H.O.V Lane
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Challenge: Suburbia (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Olympus D-490Z
Location: Alamo, California, USA
Date: Oct 8, 2008
Aperture: 4.40
ISO: 118
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Urban, Travel
Date Uploaded: Oct 11, 2008

 In the carpool/H.O.V. lane during the evening commute, southbound I-680 in the San Ramon Valley.

-Handheld, auto-mode (appropriately!)
-RGB Curve
-Blue/Yellow Curve
-Made selection/mask of sky area
-Blue/Yellow Curve applied through mask
-Cloned out stray leaf along uppoer-right edge
-Resized
-Cropped from top to 3:2 aspect ratio
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice)
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 8/10 = 184KB

Statistics
Place: 61 out of 74
Avg (all users): 4.9711
Avg (commenters): 3.6667
Avg (participants): 4.9722
Avg (non-participants): 4.9708
Views since voting: 838
Views during voting: 335
Votes: 173
Comments: 4
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/17/2008 12:25:41 AM
Had to think about this one for a moment to see "suburbia" but, when I did think about it, I could see that the suburbanite needs to travel via highway in order to commute to work everyday.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/14/2008 10:16:16 PM
Certainly matches the challenge, but the image is very busy with the shadows along the left and cars on the right. Though this might be a part of the goal to match the cookie-cutter houses.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/14/2008 03:05:52 AM
Nice angles and lighting but find the composition a little boring
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/13/2008 01:14:39 AM
As an Australian I'm not sure that the HOV lane is. The light is too bright to make the sky interesting and the image lacks a strong, clear focal point.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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