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Challenge: Upside Down III (Basic Editing)
Collection: Challenges 2008
Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Lens: Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS
Location: Strasbourg, France
Date: Oct 14, 2008
Aperture: f/7.1
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/125
Date Uploaded: Oct 14, 2008

Reflections of buildings in Strasbourg, taken in the evening. Massive crop of the original frame, as I'd originally planned on using the full view split in half, but prefer just the reflection. Stuff in water will be distracting and some may not like the bird. Pumped up saturation, did shadows/highlights, bumped contrast, neat imaged. Not expecting a riproaring score with this one but entered to support Team Germany.

[Oct. 16th, 2008 01:57:52 PM]

Yeah, it sucks.

Oh, and the black thing is a bird skimming over the top of the water.

Statistics
Place: 71 out of 170
Avg (all users): 5.3729
Avg (commenters): 7.5000
Avg (participants): 5.3261
Avg (non-participants): 5.3893
Views since voting: 591
Views during voting: 277
Votes: 177
Comments: 6
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10/22/2008 08:11:58 PM
Beautiful colors. Good title too. I particularly like the light on the buildings.
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10/22/2008 04:41:38 PM
I'm glad you didn't self DQ Deb. This is a fine shot.
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10/21/2008 08:29:19 PM
lol well it is not that bad. I love how the colors are rippled. The only bummer is that dot of darkness which I am guessing is floating in the water. Oh well, what ya gonna do?
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/19/2008 08:29:14 AM
I love the tone of this image, I think the bridge is just a bit too fussy though and I might have been tempted to look for either a higher view point to allow a similar shot with less of the bridge in it, or I might just have cropped tighter at the bottom (not sure how that would have balanced the image though).

Actually as I look at the image I think that grey building on the left could be cropped out almost making for a square crop and that would lessen the impact of the bridge I think.

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10/19/2008 05:50:02 AM
Beautiful abstract. I like the umbrella bringing it all 'home' for me.
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10/15/2008 03:11:07 AM
This is a nice "upside down" photo. Very easy to interpret and understand what I am supposed to be looking at.
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