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Emeryville Skyline -- c.f. #745985
Emeryville Skyline -- c.f. #745985
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Challenge: Brown Ribbon Deja Vu II (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Berkeley, California, USA
Date: Feb 8, 2009
Aperture: 3.51
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/318
Galleries: Cityscape, Transportation
Date Uploaded: Feb 8, 2009

 Tall buildings in Emeryville, looking south from the pedestrian bridge over Interstate 80 near the Eastshore State Park and the Berkeley Marina.

Although this is a different cityscape than the original Brown on which it's based, in an interesting homophonic coincidence, Emory University is located in Atlanta.

-Handheld, Tv mode
-RGB Curve
-Extract Green Channel to new Grayscale image
-Curve
-Apply Curve to sky area through graduated mask
-Apply Curve to foreground area through graduated mask
-Crop a little from the right
-Clone out a bit of leftover car and a line along right edge
-Convert to RGB mode
-Apply Blue/Yellow Curve to sky area through graduated mask
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice)
-Add 1-pixel black border
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 9/10 = 189 KB

File: EmvillFway_IMG_9304-DPCrt9b.jpg
Resized original:

Previous Brown winner used as inspiration:

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/10/2009 04:47:36 PM
i love this shot, great 're-do' of the brown winner...9
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/10/2009 10:36:33 AM
decent shot, interesting choice of partial desat, ultimately not the most interesting subject matter imo
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/09/2009 12:09:21 PM
This is DEFINITELY a lot better. I think cropping out the clouds would have made it stronger. Nice lines and perspective.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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