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Challenge: Zen Photography (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
Location: Ontario
Date: Jul 26, 2006
Aperture: f4.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Landscape, Rural
Date Uploaded: Jul 26, 2006

In meditation you try to empty your mind...the wind was blowing, and there was nothing else happening.
Calculations, duplicate soft light, curves, duplicate multiply, curves 2, quadtone, LAB sharpen usm, added border.

Note: without realizing it I may have subconsciously imitated jjbeguin's wheat...I just saw it, and am sure I have seen it before..not intentional, but would like to make this note anyway..

Statistics
Place: 95 out of 329
Avg (all users): 5.8889
Avg (commenters): 7.7000
Avg (participants): 5.7778
Avg (non-participants): 6.0000
Views since voting: 1210
Views during voting: 307
Votes: 198
Comments: 14
Favorites: 8 (view)


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08/14/2006 05:03:22 PM
very nice rob!
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08/07/2006 01:04:58 PM
I absolutely love this!!!!!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/06/2006 04:18:10 PM
Exquisite. I love the choice of black & white here. I also like the how expansive it all feels. Typically I don't find much zen (or serenity as zen is described in the challenge) in images that have a lot going on. I think this one because of the uniformity of the 'chaos' really works towards a zen feel though. I like the depth of the focus and the lighting looks very good. I think I would crop just a bit off from the top, there's an almost natural break in the wheat line about half an inch from the top and that's where I'd do my cropping. Very nice image. I gave a 7
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08/06/2006 12:45:23 PM
Cool abstract Zen
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08/06/2006 11:29:02 AM
fantastic zen image very well presented for this challenge great work
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08/05/2006 03:39:12 PM
great shot! -i wish to see this in color... i love the detail of the grains facing in different direction. its moving... dancing... i can feel the wind blowing... goodluck.
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08/03/2006 08:02:30 AM
Love the movement in the wheat and the processing is really nice :o)
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08/01/2006 10:57:13 PM
the wheat gives in,
becomes. 7
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08/01/2006 10:13:49 AM
stunning, 9
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07/31/2006 04:08:35 PM
This one makes me happy. I like it a lot, although, I would have cropped the very top (just an opinion).
This is beatiful work. Well done.
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07/31/2006 02:38:13 PM
I like this shot a lot, but I don't like it in this challenge. Colors (or lack of) are great, but the wheat (I assume it is wheat) is so noisy as to make for a very chaotic image in a challenge that asks for serenity and harmony. A shallower dof might have helped a bit with this by knocking out some of the details as the image recedes into the background. The dark areas at the top left of the image and to a lesser extent the top right detract from the continuity of the image. Like I said, I like this shot but it's just not meeting the challenge descs as well as I would hope. 4.
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07/31/2006 01:10:01 PM
I think I would have cropped of the top. Other than that this is excellent, congratulations!
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07/31/2006 06:41:39 AM
gorgeous as a black and white, a stunning image...I love this!
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07/31/2006 01:20:23 AM
This looks like a jbeguin image in my favorites, so I'll consider this tribute. :-)
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