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Suburban Wedding
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Challenge: Suburbia (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Stories
Camera: Canon PowerShot A530
Location: Allamuchy, NJ
Date: Oct 11, 2008
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: auto
Shutter: 1
Galleries: Candid, Blur
Date Uploaded: Oct 12, 2008

 Used a long exposure to capture the movement of the dancers. Shadow/highlight, channel mixer to b/w, selective color (on the b/w!) to darken the blacks and lighten the neutrals. resize. high pass at 10px. then blend with hard light for a "high pass sharpen".

I'm thinking brown ribbon for this. Hopefully some people will get a kick out of it.

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Please, no more apologies for high scores! Keep 'em coming! The only one I blame is Kelli for getting a lower score with such a lovely picture. How dare she??

The strange ghost image may have been created by a flashing light during the exposure. This is a suburban wedding, even if it doesn't look like it.

Statistics
Place: 73 out of 74
Avg (all users): 4.4795
Avg (commenters): 4.8750
Avg (participants): 4.2353
Avg (non-participants): 4.5401
Views since voting: 983
Views during voting: 333
Votes: 171
Comments: 21
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 10/21/2008 01:54:21 AM
how do you do it eh
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 10/20/2008 11:31:35 PM
this is totally awesome, loved it the minute i saw it
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 10/20/2008 09:26:49 AM
Very interesting shot there Donald! To me, it looks very ghostly especially with the little girl in the center. It's like she's trying to get a message to someone.
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 10/20/2008 06:22:57 AM
Well Don you have met many challenges with this,but not the brown, a couple of more times through the noise extractor would have been interesting.
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 10/20/2008 04:37:48 AM
LOL! Sorry, I kind of thought I was going to take the brown and did! Yet, that is exactly the type of view I often get from where I sit at the computer (next to the window). I love your shot, though Deb is right, it does have some disturbing undertones.
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 10/20/2008 03:26:14 AM
Almost an eerie Stepford kinda thing going on with even odder undertones (namely the man's hand, the little girl). Quite an intriguing technique, I must say!
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 10/20/2008 02:44:30 AM
Do I detect team suck hanging upside down off the reverse podium?



Message edited by author 2008-10-20 06:45:01.
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 10/20/2008 02:44:29 AM


Looks more rural than suburban to me,

Message edited by author 2008-10-20 06:45:24.
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 10/20/2008 02:44:29 AM
but a great shot...

Message edited by author 2008-10-20 06:45:47.
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 10/20/2008 02:34:29 AM
Well, there's your problem... You went and met the challenge in a subtle way some people appreciated. No brown, but congratulations anyhow on earning the tan.
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 10/19/2008 08:31:00 PM
I gave you a 9, after reading your comments ....... shit, I am sorry ...... :(
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 10/19/2008 08:18:50 PM
I thought it was fairly interesting. I gave it a 6 so I ruined your hopes for the brown. I liked the motion and the blur. I would have given it a higher score if there was one piece that stood out and caught my attention. Of course, you were hoping for that to not happen so I guess it worked lol.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/19/2008 07:56:11 PM
I truly enjoyed studying this photo.. it sets itself apart from all the others in this challenge.. unique and so well done.. I love the suggested shapes of the body parts... the expression of the girl's expression.. I hope you do well in this challenge - one of my top picks but then I love abstracts. I would love to hang this on my wall.
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 10/19/2008 05:31:40 PM
What makes it suburban? That aside, this is realy cool.
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 10/19/2008 01:12:56 PM
Looks like a pin-hole shot...very noisy.
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 10/18/2008 07:50:32 PM
Really cool idea but there's so much going on that it loses impact. My eye doesn't know where to look.
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 10/16/2008 08:33:12 PM
Not quite a big fan of the blurred/double exposure look but, it certain has a very artistic feel to it which is so different to what is usually seen in here. I like it for that very reason!
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 10/16/2008 08:10:40 PM
Was this taken this way on purpose? Sorry, but the noise, blur and composition don't do it for me.
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 10/15/2008 04:59:08 AM
You know, I love the style of the photo. My only gripe is what makes a wedding suburban?
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 10/13/2008 07:00:03 AM
Doesn't convey suburbia
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 10/13/2008 06:51:42 AM
Nice image - Like the grain and the blur - Maybe just a little too muddy and nothing really to make our eye settle
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