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Challenge: Fine Arts: Exhibit I (Advanced Editing VII*)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Berkeley, California, USA
Date: Mar 3, 2010
Aperture: 3.51
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/1244
Galleries: Emotive, Photo-Impressionism
Date Uploaded: Mar 3, 2010
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I imagine that if "the Rapture" (and its accompanying Armageddon) were ever to actually occur, then the fire would rage even through "a dark and stormy night...."
I was taking macros of raindrops on the car window, but decided I liked the rooflines better; I left some token drops (or are they tears?) in the upper-right corner as evidence of what I was doing originally.
As I often do when presented with a flat lighting situation, I played around with color Curves until I found this one, which in turn inspired the title. I see it as the equivalent of having shot with a deep-color filter. I wanted somethng which resembled a painting in feel, yet was clearly a photograph.
Title from the "standard" inkblot test used for psychological profiling, because of the suggestively-shaped clouds.
Bonus hint*: Tilt your head 45° to the left and check out the cloud pattern(s) along the left-hand edge ...
Note: this is as-is -- not retouched ... a version with a slight amount of dodge/burn in the clouds is here:
This version without obvious raindrops was my alternate choice, but I liked the roofline and the clouds of the entry better.
-Handheld, manual mode
-SuperMacro mode
-Fluorescent WB (no, not intentionally)
-RGB Curve
-Blue/Yellow Curve
-Resize
-USM at 16%/64 dia/TH = 0
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 290KB
File: Rainy_IMG_9585yDPC.jpg
Resized original: 
*Here's what I saw:
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03/14/2010 06:22:03 PM |
| I don't know how others will respond to this, but I love it. Kudos on the raindrops, nice touch. |
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03/14/2010 06:08:44 PM |
| This has a random feeling - like maybe a camera was attached to the head of a cat. I like it. |
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03/14/2010 04:50:16 PM |
| The colors are garish and the composition feels accidental. In short -- I love it. |
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03/14/2010 12:02:08 PM |
| 3 - Don't mind the concept, don't even mind the toning, but the lack of more to explore in the image and the blown sky distract me. |
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03/14/2010 06:22:06 AM |
| Great mood here, interesting color, but I think it adds a different texture, well liked.. |
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03/11/2010 10:18:24 AM |
| the sky is crying and the tears fall down like rain |
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03/11/2010 06:43:34 AM |
| It's probably the garish colour pumping, but this doesn't work at all for me, not as an abstraction, and certainly not as "fine art". If the colour choice was saner, I might have understood. Unfortunately, I don't get it. |
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03/10/2010 03:03:03 PM |
| Apocalyptic. People don't live here anymore. |
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03/09/2010 07:52:48 PM |
| tint is perfect.great capture |
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03/09/2010 12:56:54 PM |
| Neat color. Kind of an acid feel to it. |
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03/09/2010 11:24:49 AM |
| not digging the water drops |
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03/09/2010 08:16:45 AM |
| Unusual color and perspective and definitely arty. |
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03/09/2010 06:55:44 AM |
| I think that the water drops take away from this...it has a kind of eerie effect on me... |
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03/08/2010 03:51:04 PM |
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