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The world is made of spider webs
The world is made of spider webs
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Challenge: In The Style Of: bspurgeon (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D90
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5D
Location: Yorba Linda, CA
Date: Jul 8, 2011
Aperture: f7.1
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/20
Galleries: Abstract, Nature
Date Uploaded: Jul 8, 2011

 Song: Spider Web by Joan Osborn (Relish Album)

I expect this to be a low score because I chose to saturate the color, definitely not a usual Ben thing to do (I think he considers color to be a distraction). But I considered what I perceive Ben's overall philosophy to be about: affect the viewer, move them to think about the image and above all, be true to yourself and in his words "don't spoon feed the voters".

I love color and the more is better. This rendition was true to me and probably not Ben, but that's quite the catch 22 and I chose my view in the end.

converted from raw in ps elements
usm sharpened
levels
saturated (quite a bit!)
no cropping
sized and ran thru neat image for noise reduction and saved for dpc

Thank you for all the nice comments!
bvy; We are getting our boat ready for a long sail and have been collecting maps for the last month. I was so pleased to see that someone else saw the cartographic over-tones in this.. made my day, week, month....

Statistics
Place: 99 out of 156
Avg (all users): 5.5625
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 5.5641
Avg (non-participants): 5.5588
Views since voting: 392
Views during voting: 215
Votes: 112
Comments: 8
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 08/08/2011 06:03:51 PM
Bon Voyage!
 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/21/2011 06:53:12 PM
I don't see this as a Ben shot (too much color hahaha) but this really is beautiful!! Love that rainbow and the beads of bokeh.
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 07/21/2011 06:07:57 PM
Gorgeous. Brave move to go colorful.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/19/2011 09:22:19 AM
What a colorful bg, wonderful.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/18/2011 09:21:04 PM
This is wild. I like it. Pretty colors and all.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/17/2011 02:03:41 PM
Astounding. Not only a colorful study in fractals, but I'm struck by the cartographic nature of this.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/16/2011 06:02:09 AM
Love the rainbow colours.
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 07/16/2011 01:52:15 AM
Not voting I'm afraid, but this is absolutely beautiful! Really well done
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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