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Challenge: Monuments II (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: 2015 - Challenges
Camera: Nikon D7000
Lens: Tamron AF 18-270mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD with Piezo
Location: Orlando, FL
Date: Apr 26, 2015
Aperture: f/7.1
ISO: 500
Shutter: 1/500 sec.
Date Uploaded: Apr 26, 2015

DSC_5196-1 2015 04 26

3 Exposures > Photomatix
Opened in Lr
Curves/Levels/Brightness
Moved to PsCC
Cropped
Perspective Warp
Viveza
Sharpen
Silver Efex
Color Efex
DFine
Resized
Saved for WEB

Statistics
Place: 30 out of 60
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Views since voting: 318
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Votes: 73
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07/14/2015 03:30:09 PM
*Hello from Sid and the Critique Club*

I'm sorry to see that you didn't receive any comments, hopefully this will make up for it. In terms of the challenge brief, being a monument it obviously fulfils that.

You've chosen a pretty impressive monument for your subject and I like that you have converted it to mono with the most important parts of it standing out from the background. There are however, one or two things I am not keen on and might have done differently.

I am not happy with the overexposed sky but perhaps you gave it some +EC to get more detail into the faces? I'm not sure how close you were and what focal length you were using but looking at your exif there would have been some scope to use a larger aperture to reduce the detail in the background.

As it stands this is pretty much a record shot of a monument in other words it simply records it straight on without a lot of creative input, from this viewpoint I find the reflections in the base distracting. Given the nature of the subject I don't think you even need to include the base and I would have tried it from a position further to your left and closer in to frame them from the guns up using the flag itself as the main background. This position would also have overcome your sky problem and allowed you to get a better exposure of the faces and it would have stamped your own creative input to it.

I hope this helps, Sid
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