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Challenge: Signature Style (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Nikon D300
Lens: Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D
Location: Wales
Date: Jan 12, 2010
Aperture: f3.3
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Abstract, Birds
Date Uploaded: Jan 12, 2010

 I guess in some ways i do have a signature style. I often use selective blur, strong contrast and textures and washed out desaturated colour. I'm also keen on a square crop. I certainly have a number of themes and motifs i often find myself coming back to again and again. Windows, doorways and staircases feature heavily and i try to extract a feeling of ominous expectancy out of these entrances and exits. I'm very interested in attempting to photograph absences and many of the techniques i use, such as blur and desat, are in aid of this. What i'm really aiming for in my photographs is a sense of unease, of unreality, the feeling that something isn't quite right, of something or someone just out of shot, on the peripheral or about to enter. I'm always very happy when someone describes one as creepy or spooky. To be a bit pretentious about it; what i'm really aiming to do is take, or create, photographs of ghosts.

Statistics
Place: 46 out of 193
Avg (all users): 6.2300
Avg (commenters): 8.5556
Avg (participants): 6.5256
Avg (non-participants): 6.0593
Views since voting: 1224
Views during voting: 419
Votes: 213
Comments: 38
Favorites: 14 (view)

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 08/04/2010 10:30:39 AM
really like this alot...I think it would be superb on canvas...
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 01/24/2010 04:45:50 PM
Greetings from the critique club

Congratulations on the successful execution of your signature style. It must be very satisfying to get your second best score with this shot!

I'm not surprised at all at the high score for this shot even though it is "artsy" and "abstract". The composition is wonderfully "clean" with all elements working together to create your vision. The wonderful lines, textures and desaturated colors support the subject so wonderfully. I love the contrast of the dark window around the bird and the frame. I've only done a few critiques so far and it has been fairly easy to come up with pointers on how to improve a shot until this one..I can honestly not think of a single thing that would make it better. It is no wonder that you have already gotten 13 favorites for this shot.
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 01/20/2010 01:11:31 PM
I didn't vote on this challenge, but had a feeling that this was yours. Capturing that bird in the window is - of course - the bomb. Beautiful. Great finish, too.
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 01/20/2010 03:52:04 AM
Well, you got you a 10 from me. I guess I'm a clive fan. I didn't recognize it as yours, however...
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 01/20/2010 12:22:12 AM
One of my favourites in the challenge. Well done on the 6+ score
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 01/19/2010 08:00:45 PM
did not see this image during voting, and probably would not have guessed the author, but I love it all the same. adding mine to the list of faves.

Message edited by author 2010-01-20 01:02:09.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/19/2010 05:55:13 PM
Nice textures and earthy feeling. I also like the frame in a frame.
This is one that I have been looking at all week and never scored. I'll give it a nine since I'm still looking at it and still lovin' it.
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 01/19/2010 01:25:30 PM
Great processing & composition.
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 01/19/2010 12:02:37 PM
cutout
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 01/19/2010 10:48:12 AM
I have no idea whose this is but just wanted to say I love it. It's got a blend of pointandshoot, posthumous, skewsme, and possibly clive_patric_nolan. A lovely blend of elements and textures.
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 01/19/2010 08:17:29 AM
haunting
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 01/18/2010 02:28:17 PM
clive_patric_nolan?
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 01/18/2010 01:45:03 PM
Whoa!
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 01/18/2010 06:58:15 AM
This looks like a cutout photo, it's very abstract, and the overall feel is very intense.
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 01/18/2010 04:07:20 AM
Beautiful... absolutely beautiful. This is wonderful art. Up there as one of my favs for the challenge... and based on the the quality of the art, and the inclusion on what looks to be a pigeon.

Signature Style Guess: Melethia
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 01/17/2010 05:29:27 PM
My favorite of the challenge... I believe this is Clive's work.
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 01/17/2010 12:38:30 PM
Coming back to look at this again as I really like it. I wasn't planning on guessing the photographer, but I had a feeling. Is this Clive_Patric_Nolan?
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 01/17/2010 08:02:20 AM
I love the quiet beauty of this and I believe it might belong to clive_patric_nolan.
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 01/17/2010 07:30:39 AM
Clearly, the style of clive_patric_nolan. Excellent work!
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 01/17/2010 06:45:54 AM
the border takes away from the photo...
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 01/16/2010 12:25:51 PM
Moving this from a 7 to 8. There is something very appealing about this!
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 01/16/2010 01:38:25 AM
2 10̢۪s I have given in a year, both ironically in this challenge, Outstanding work.
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 01/15/2010 06:28:35 PM
Wendy??? is that you.... vawendy this is beautiful, guess it is back to the drawing board for me...not Wendy...
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 01/15/2010 04:30:31 PM
Very nice shot. I can't explain why I like it but I do.
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 01/15/2010 04:30:24 PM
Love the color, love the monotone, the framing, the subject the texture.
This is a hanger.
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 01/15/2010 09:33:36 AM
this is very Pointy
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 01/14/2010 07:06:00 PM
I find this image just beautiful. Simple at a glance, yet cunningly complex. Lovely lines and textures, and the shadowy, abstract hint of a bird seems to represent a soul escaping or breaking free of some bondage.

10+fav
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 01/14/2010 05:51:49 PM
Unless it's yanko back from the dead, this is pointandshoot. Breathtaking.
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 01/14/2010 09:10:36 AM
I initially gave this a 6 but after spending more time on it I think its more of a 9. Very artsy very nice.
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 01/14/2010 05:45:47 AM
possibly 'Cutout' territory
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 01/13/2010 03:16:11 PM
My goodness, that's exquisite....
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 01/13/2010 10:27:51 AM
Xion or Clive? No matter who - this is most excellent.
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 01/13/2010 08:32:46 AM
Oh my!!! This is subtle and extremely avant garde. I love it. RKT? Whoever, I think it's delicious. The hint of blue, the geometry and I adore the diagonal line. 9
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 01/13/2010 06:10:03 AM
stunning, i love what you have captured here
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 01/13/2010 04:57:03 AM
Oh so very lovely! Paul?
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 01/13/2010 12:08:10 AM
Beautiful image. The coloration, the window and the 'feeling of this' - I'm pretty confident that this is clive_patric_nolan. I would cite these images as evidence:





I think the image resonates with this body of work.
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 01/12/2010 08:55:27 PM
dreamy 7
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 01/12/2010 08:31:11 PM
brilliant arty image...love it 8
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