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Calm before the Storm
Calm before the Storm
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Challenge: High Contrast IV (Basic Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Lens: Tokina AF 12-24mm f/4.0 AT-X Pro DX
Location: Poplar Bluff MO
Date: Jun 30, 2009
Aperture: f/4
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Landscape, Infrared
Date Uploaded: Jun 30, 2009

 What else, my one of my neighbor's trees across the street. Had to walk out to the middle of the street for this one.

Adjusted levels, swapped blue for red channel, adjusted contrast, made into grey scale, adjusted brightness and contrast again with a little sharpening.

Statistics
Place: 83 out of 216
Avg (all users): 5.5074
Avg (commenters): 5.0000
Avg (participants): 5.1875
Avg (non-participants): 5.6818
Views since voting: 754
Views during voting: 207
Votes: 136
Comments: 7
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/05/2009 09:00:09 PM
Lots of contrast, but seems a bit soft on my monitor.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/04/2009 09:25:46 AM
Challenge Relevance:7 Impact/Emotion/Mood:5 Technicals:5 Processing:6 Creativity:4

I really like the B&W conversion. The clouds and sky are awesome in tone. There seems to be a softness to the focus that effects the technicals for me and the mid ground tree seems a bit too central. I've also checked this on two differnet monitors to see if I can see more detail in the fence line. The way it becomes lost in the shadow distracts the eye. Despite these nit picks I do like the shot; a little work on composition and focus could make an improvement.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/04/2009 06:45:40 AM
Excellent clouds, but foreground seems indistinct with loss of shadow detail in that long shadow.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/01/2009 02:55:11 PM
I would have rated this higher if 1) the areas in front were in a little more focus & 2) I don't like that shaddow on the grass, in front of hte fence. It kinds of hides the fence. I would be interested in a crop that takes out the front fense & puts the bottom of the tree into the bottm right corner of the photo. - 4
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/01/2009 12:31:18 PM
I can't tell where I see trees and where I see clouds. I think there is also a lack of focus here.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/01/2009 10:50:07 AM
love the clouds from the dark sky
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/01/2009 09:21:39 AM
has some nice elements but looks a bit fuzzy overall
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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