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Challenge: Free Study 2009-09 (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Sep 19, 2009
Aperture: 2.71
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/2 second
Galleries: Emotive, Architecture
Date Uploaded: Sep 29, 2009

On the observatory plaza at the Chabot Space and Science Center, waiting to look through the big telescopes before the fog rolled in.

Title from an old movie -- the print's title is the more prosaic "Observatory at Dusk."

-Handheld, Tv mode
-Noise-reduction with PictureCooler
-Cloned out distracting overhead branches in upper-right corner
-RGB Curve
-Resize
-USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH = 5
SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 102KB

File: Dome_IMG_5316-DPC.jpg

Resized original:

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Views since voting: 977
Views during voting: 236
Votes: 137
Comments: 6
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/07/2009 03:14:43 PM
Doesn't really work in silhouette; the observatory looms too large. Maybe a little more detail in the shadows?
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10/03/2009 06:30:58 PM
Just too dark IMO
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10/02/2009 04:53:01 AM
Great shot for Halloween.
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10/01/2009 06:20:53 PM
Even with my brightness turned right up, this is a little too dark. I think the concept could have been a good one, but I would have liked to see a little more space, or perhaps a little more sky.
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10/01/2009 11:41:21 AM
It seems pretty dark to me already, probably a little too dark (at least on my screen) as I can see some of the detail in the large Telescope, but not a real lot, and I feel with it being a little lighter this could have been really good. The red lights stand out a little too much at the moment as well. The left compostion does work well, especially with the red of the su n just disappearing on the right.A little longer on the exposure and this could have been very very good.
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10/01/2009 08:22:20 AM
At the first glance I thought: Oops, underexposed, but the title cleared that up ;) Nice shot with a nice, and i presume intended, low key. Welldone!
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