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Challenge: Long Exposure (Advanced Editing IV)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S1 IS
Location: Berkeley, California, USA
Date: Jul 25, 2005
Aperture: 8.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/100
Galleries: Architecture
Date Uploaded: Jul 25, 2005

 First Congregatinal Church of Berkeley, shot handheld while standing under a magnolia tree.

@ Shutter exposure mode
@ Resized for DPC; cropped from right to 3:2 ratio
@ USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH=7
@ SaveAs JEPG at quality setting 10/10 = 150kb

Statistics
Place: 199 out of 200
Avg (all users): 3.8033
Avg (commenters): 3.2727
Avg (participants): 3.7921
Avg (non-participants): 3.8112
Views since voting: 1273
Views during voting: 373
Votes: 244
Comments: 15
Favorites: 0

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 08/08/2005 08:01:44 PM
No Gen., I rather like the dark corners...even better if the green were darker like the magnolia leaves. Being able to see thru the glass to the far windows is quite a good thing too. I doubt this could have been done without a longer than normal exposure. Yea, the white is a bit bright but you can probably fix this in ps. Far site better than where it placed.
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 08/08/2005 07:35:08 AM
Originally posted by LadeeM:
Being new to "long exposure" myself, it's taken me a bit to understand how and when to use it. When you use it to take a photo of a regular object, you get an extra bright object. Long exposure doesn't work well for this photo. Perhaps if you had taken it at night, we would have gotten a better feel for the subject. Good luck!


OK ... so I feel like an idiot now. :)
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 08/08/2005 02:33:44 AM
Here's the high-key version with a vignetted treatment.


Message edited by author 2005-08-08 02:34:01.
 08/08/2005 02:08:57 AM
Originally posted by briphoto:
how is this long exposure?

This is a long exposure in that it is longer than what would be "normal" in a deliberate attempt to isolate the windows within the white-on-white (high-key) building against the blown-out sky. I wanted to hold just the barest possible detail in the columns while making the windows look relatively normal. I guess I should have left out the "dark corners" and just made it a pure high-key photo.

However, it is not "over-exposed" it is deliberately exposed for longer than would be normal ... which I thought was the point of the challenge.

A "normal" exposure would have looked more like this:


Message edited by author 2005-08-08 02:09:45.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/07/2005 05:59:47 PM
how is this long exposure?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/07/2005 02:15:35 PM
Being new to "long exposure" myself, it's taken me a bit to understand how and when to use it. When you use it to take a photo of a regular object, you get an extra bright object. Long exposure doesn't work well for this photo. Perhaps if you had taken it at night, we would have gotten a better feel for the subject. Good luck!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/03/2005 12:49:17 PM
4 - This shot just looks over exposed.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/03/2005 07:48:43 AM
A beautiful steeple shot but the contrast brightness ratio is off. The tilt of the photo is an odd angle and is very distracting. The photo does for the most part have some good clarity tho. Good luck in this challenge. <5>
The reason for giving you a <5> is because it does fit the challenge by being washed out looking. A normal exposure would not have been so washed out.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/03/2005 02:02:02 AM
The leaves are correctly exposed, but the background is completely blown out
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/02/2005 08:08:21 AM
it seems overly bright to me....pretty steeple though, maybe go back at dusk?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/01/2005 11:43:17 PM
less light would of helped this. Its crisp but overexposed.
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 08/01/2005 02:34:50 PM
Sorry, but this is really overexposed. Didn't make for a good image, because if you didn't know the topic was long exposure, this would simply look like a bad photo.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/01/2005 11:01:40 AM
way too blown out.
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 08/01/2005 10:37:26 AM
This is very overexposed. If you had attempted it at dusk maybe, while there was still a bit of light in the sky, just before dark you might have had a better result. If they light the belfry at night it would have made a great shot then.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/01/2005 12:42:59 AM
why a long exposure on a sunny day???? 2
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