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My name is Gladiator !!
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Challenge: Free Study 2010-02 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM for Canon
Location: Rome, Italy
Date: Feb 23, 2010
Aperture: F/14
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/320
Galleries: Architecture, Photojournalism
Date Uploaded: Feb 28, 2010

 Taken in Rome.
Shadow/Highlights,
USM
Crop
USM
Duotone

Statistics
Place: 321 out of 379
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Avg (commenters): 4.5000
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Votes: 142
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 03/12/2010 05:54:15 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Lovely capture of an extremely historic site, to say the least. I have the Nikon version of that lens and can well understand why you used it for this shot.

A lower ISO may have helped to capture richer tones, I have to agree with the commenters who see flatness in areas of the shot. The shutter speed is quite fast so you must have been shooting handheld. For architecture, landscapes, anything where your subject isn't likely to be going anywhere in a hurry, a tripod is worth its weight in gold. You then have a stable base and can close down the fstop, open the aperture and slow the ISO right down.

And, assuming that you did the pp in the order in which you list it, you may want to do all your cropping, image adjustment and colour manipualtion before you resize. Then usm and save for web. Wouldn't hurt to try!

Feel free to PM me with any questions,

Susan
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/07/2010 05:19:38 AM
Somehow I think that B&W would even have made this stronger.
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 03/05/2010 11:50:01 AM
here is my 2 cents...I would really like to see this with a much richer tonal value...to me this seems a bit flat
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 03/02/2010 09:39:07 PM
Needs more contrast.
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 03/01/2010 07:09:57 PM
The sky really makes this a dramatic shot.
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 03/01/2010 11:49:27 AM
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: The bold processing has caused me to take pause and look more carefully at this image to to to discern what you were going for here. I can see that your curves manipulation do offer some drama - a bit like a lighting bolt effect in an old 'B' movie.

Critical stuff: Some of the tones here are just plain wrong to my eye and the very prominent foreground texture is quite distracting and it takes up too much of the frame.

Overall: The basic scene has potential but the final result falls short of the mark to my eye.
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