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franktheyank


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Challenge: Out of Balance (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Lens: Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS
Location: Seattle
Date: Jan 4, 2011
Aperture: F/4
ISO: 88
Shutter: 1/13 sec
Galleries: Architecture, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Jan 8, 2011

 I predict that many DPCers will consider this outside the challenge topic. Be that as it may I was going for an image that would make the viewer feel a bit out of balance. You decide if I succeeded or not.

[Jan. 10th, 2011 10:22:29 PM]

This was not done with a lens baby or tilt shift lens. Rather I used the Vignette blur filter in Nik Color Efex 3.0

Statistics
Place: 2 out of 133
Avg (all users): 6.4921
Avg (commenters): 7.2308
Avg (participants): 6.4789
Avg (non-participants): 6.5091
Views since voting: 5056
Views during voting: 257
Votes: 126
Comments: 25
Favorites: 3 (view)

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 01/30/2011 08:56:22 PM
Congrats on your well deserved ribbon! Also, thanks for letting us know how you achieved this wonderfull effect.
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 01/21/2011 06:52:49 PM
I find myself revisiting this image time and again. While the angle and the perspective play major roles in making this image successful, it is the filter creating the blur that really strikes the imbalance for me; I hate it and love it simultaneously. What better definition of out of balance? It feels overdone and uncomfortable, but in this contest, would be less complete without it. I would never process this way and accept this as a final product for one of my own images, but that is exactly why it resonates with me so much!
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 01/19/2011 08:39:47 AM
UW library? congrats!
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 01/18/2011 06:49:39 PM
The angle is really too good and very interesting idea, congrats on your yellow ribbon.
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Earl Nunes
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 01/18/2011 09:25:16 AM
Beautifully done! Wonderful image. Congrats on the yellow!
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 01/18/2011 06:52:25 AM
Great stuff,Congratulations.
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 01/17/2011 06:11:49 AM
makes me feel dizzy... so I guess its a complete success! congrats on the yellow!
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 01/17/2011 01:55:41 AM
This make me unbalanced...congrats on yellow ribbon.
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 01/16/2011 11:19:21 PM
Nice! Congrats on the well deserved ribbon. Wonderful photo.
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 01/16/2011 07:58:48 PM
Congrats on your ribbon. Awesome image. Excited that this processing can be achieved without a lensbaby
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/16/2011 05:12:39 PM
apt title. I like the effect.
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 01/16/2011 04:26:48 PM
Could be a whirlpool made of stone from the thumbnail. Nicely soft, I like how thee left window pulls you away from the door so you can start again
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 01/16/2011 03:25:40 PM
Lensbaby? I like it.
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 01/16/2011 06:30:47 AM
W oRK s
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 01/13/2011 04:07:25 PM
Interesting idea
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 01/13/2011 12:06:45 AM
very nice, almost a tilt shift feel to this, nice work on the conversion
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 01/12/2011 07:54:15 AM
Interesting focus. I'm wondering if it is a lensbaby image. Very effective, well done.
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 01/11/2011 06:15:00 PM
Yep ya gave me vertigo looking at this... REALLY good job!!
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 01/11/2011 01:56:33 PM
A beautiful shot. A 9 - 10ish from me but I am not voting since I participate also
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 01/11/2011 05:27:20 AM
Nice shot, love the pov
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 01/10/2011 12:29:47 PM
What a cool perspective.
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 01/10/2011 12:03:08 PM
Very effective. It has a tilt-shift lens flavour to it but I suspect the effect was achieved by PP. I hope you let us know.
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 01/10/2011 03:16:31 AM
Man, the first time I saw that movie, I was creeped out for days.
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 01/10/2011 01:43:12 AM
Wow, amazing angle, a ribbon for sure.
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 01/09/2011 10:00:04 PM
Fabulous vantage point. Great use of the lensbaby.
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