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Challenge: Black and White Landscape (Basic Editing*)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Lens: Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS
Location: somewhere between Middleburg and Winchester VA
Date: Apr 24, 2010
Aperture: f/9
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/200s
Galleries: Landscape, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Apr 24, 2010

 cows, calves, and at least one horse enjoying a verdant hillside in rural Virginia

shot at 105mm - I was up on the roadside looking down, shooting wide would have been, well, too wide - too much foreground shrubbery up where I was standing, so I had to frame it out with a narrower angle of view.

I'm especially fond of the tiny cow head in the bottom right corner.

Statistics
Place: 358 out of 382
Avg (all users): 4.5685
Avg (commenters): 4.5714
Avg (participants): 4.5050
Avg (non-participants): 4.7111
Views since voting: 762
Views during voting: 261
Votes: 146
Comments: 11
Favorites: 1 (view)

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AuthorThread
 05/03/2010 12:40:00 PM
My comment was way too brief - nothing was blown out in your picture, and the extraordinary contrast is delightfully and subtly complemented by the variations within each "zone."
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 05/03/2010 07:27:37 AM
For the life of me, I can't figure out why so many see this as blown out/over exposed. I can't! Or maybe people weren't using the proper terminology? Perhaps "pale" might have been a better term...but then again, "pale" is not a flaw...and one must always seek the flaw when looking at a photograph.

...or, maybe some serious monitor calibrations are in order for some of the viewing/voting population.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/03/2010 06:55:44 AM
beautiful! funny I was just thinking that it reminds me of tnun's entry - as if part of a series.
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 05/02/2010 08:35:38 PM
I love this!!!! (Pascal's Pasture?) Someday we should sit down and trade blown out high contrasty comments. Or philospher cards.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/02/2010 03:28:38 PM
Very blown out and not much detail.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/29/2010 04:17:31 AM
A little too blown out.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/28/2010 03:45:47 PM
The overexposed shot doesn't really hurt this scene and gives it a high key or possibly infra red treatment. The rolling lines of the slopes throughout add good composition and the silhouetted cows add interest.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/27/2010 12:31:53 PM
everything seems to be blown out - except for the horse and the cows
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/27/2010 06:33:45 AM
for me this seems to be quite blown out, it lacks the rich, rich tones that voters seem to like
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/26/2010 07:26:07 PM
I also struggled with balancing the full tonal range, but this looks too high-key contrasty to me.
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 04/26/2010 12:00:26 PM
I think I can see why you choose to blow this out, but I don't think it helps the shot.
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