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Jour de fete
Jour de fete
mariuca


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Celebration II (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Challenges 2011
Camera: Canon PowerShot G12
Location: Boston
Date: Dec 30, 2011
Aperture: f=2.8
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1:25
Galleries: Cityscape, Textures
Date Uploaded: Jan 5, 2012

 [Jan. 11th, 2012 05:35:00 PM]

It's not that easy to get a brown ribbon.
I took a very plain photo of trees decorated with lights and played with it until I was blue in the face. The first image looked awfully ditsy and nondescript.
So I pushed everything to a maximum of processing until I almost did not recognized the original, something that I almost never do but had to experience at some point. And that's the image I posted. It would make a quaint pillow case should someone be foolish enough to weave it to embroider it.
Thanks for looking and being horrified.
Same here.

One word of clarification. The image above IS NOT the original but another "processed to death" of the same original as the "pillow case". The outtake using same original:

Statistics
Place: 40 out of 40
Avg (all users): 3.9832
Avg (commenters): 6.3333
Avg (participants): 4.0952
Avg (non-participants): 3.9592
Views since voting: 514
Views during voting: 239
Votes: 119
Comments: 9
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 01/14/2012 06:25:17 AM
cool... nice pillowcase!

Message edited by author 2012-01-15 00:40:29.
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 01/13/2012 10:43:03 AM
Beautiful and you beat all the brownmasters.
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 01/12/2012 07:33:39 PM
I KNEW that some people would like it! May the bold be rewarded, whether they be "right" or not. By the way, I have an old powershot I-don't-know-what-model that generates images much like your original no matter what I do. Not sure what's wrong with it, but it does some delightfully interesting things sometimes. Like a really screwed-up roll of expired film . . . remember those days?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/12/2012 07:28:25 PM
Truth be told, I thought this WAS textile, not necessarily a pillowcase, something a bit heavier like a table cloth. I didn't imagine it to be embroidered, but simply printed. Sorry for the misinterpretation, Mariuca. I gave you a 4. I do prefer your original.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/12/2012 07:06:44 PM
Congrats on the brown......it's not that bad!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/12/2012 07:03:34 PM
You beat me to the bottom. Remarkable. Lovely textures and color. Congrats on the brown.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/12/2012 06:36:37 PM
Though this does not necessarily apppeal to me, I can certainly believe that there is an appreciative audience for this image. Since I cannot decide to either vote per my own predilictions or for what I can see artistic value in despite my tastes, I'm afraid I must doom this to the median.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/12/2012 05:27:11 PM
a lovely tapestry...
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 01/08/2012 03:28:01 PM
I do like the painting look. I can see it in an art gallery.
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