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Challenge: Urban Decay (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Challenges
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
Location: Hyannis, MA
Date: Dec 12, 2009
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/125
Date Uploaded: Dec 13, 2009
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Pretty complex processing job, actually.
From RAW to CS3
Cropped (shot wider than required so I could keep it squared up, cropped foreground and right mostly.)
Duped BG, ran Topaz detail.
Selected for sky and tossed it from the detail layer.
Cloned out a utility pole to the right of the train.
Used hue/sat to take a lot of color out of the sky and darken it.
Separate hue/sat to give back a little of the reds and yellows.
Adamus sharpening.
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The bright part of the train is sunlight reflecting, sun's directly behind me. The image probably won't do very well, since it's not a building and it's not totally disintegrating.
We don't have a lot of urban decay on Cape Cod, obviously, but the scandalous disintegration of what used to be a very useful light rail system certainly qualifies. We have horrible traffic problems during "the season", when our population more than triples, and we don't have the roads to handle it well. Back in the day, everyone traveled to the Cape by rail and this worked well, but the system has been defunct for decades. Most of the right-of-way has been converted to bike paths, which is good as far as it goes, but... |
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12/21/2009 03:03:58 AM |
| One of my few 10's. Great shot Robert. |
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12/20/2009 06:19:39 PM |
| I hoping this is at least in the Top 10! |
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12/18/2009 10:20:32 AM |
| Very neat subject, but it seems a bit dark and underexposed. A more off center composition might make it more interesting, too. |
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12/16/2009 11:15:18 PM |
Like your subject - just feel could have used an angle instead of head-on.
Makes it very flat.
Good colour.
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12/16/2009 01:37:59 PM |
| Ahhh, gotta love those trains and train tracks. Nice job. |
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12/16/2009 03:26:19 AM |
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12/15/2009 05:51:42 PM |
| Love the sky! a tad underexposed though... |
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12/14/2009 05:37:15 PM |
| Good entry and processing. |
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12/14/2009 11:30:46 AM |
| Different subject matter than what was expected(good). But the decay seems minimal to me. No vote, I'm in this one. |
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12/14/2009 08:09:21 AM |
| I like this one - one of the best for this challenge - 8 from me |
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12/14/2009 02:23:01 AM |
| nice shot, i like this underexposed choice... |
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