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Hilltop Weather Station
Hilltop Weather Station
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Challenge: Deep DOF (Advanced Editing II)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Location: Between Cordell and Cloud Chief, Oklahoma
Date: Jun 5, 2004
Aperture: f/22
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/15
Galleries: Landscape, Rural
Date Uploaded: Jun 5, 2004

The first deployment of my mobile micronet site, east of Cordell, Oklahoma.

Slight rotate, sharpen, darkened a little, cloned out a few distracting twigs, and very slight burn on low clouds.

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Votes: 198
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06/19/2004 03:31:11 AM
exposure is fine the subject devoided. I mean sure sure its a depth of field shot but you don't have a focus really. That weather thing just is an eyes sore either you should have focused more on the thing itself or scrapped it for the landscape. I dont' think there was really anything there for you to actually focus on in the first place because neither the landscape nor that weather thing are very interesting not even mundane is the right word. It just banal shit in the middle of nowhere on a day in a field that has no reason to be seen. Color saturation would be a great help with boring work shit for shit tat for tat wiggle your finger and find something better to shoot. Thank for your work.
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06/11/2004 09:15:16 PM
good photo, amazing sky
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06/07/2004 09:10:21 PM
very neat
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06/07/2004 12:22:58 PM
This is one of those very difficult to comment on images :-) Of itself, there's nothing immediately wrong with it - not technically: exposure is fine, sharpness and focus is fine, detail is pretty much there. and it certainly meets the challenge ... but that's all it does. There's no drama in it ... the brushy undergrowth is pretty static, and just a confusion of leaves and brown-greens - there are no patterns there, no textures to hold the eye, and it's just pretty ugly. The weather station isn't so interesting a shape, and framing it across the horizon line makes it seem absolutely mundane. Ther is some distant subject in the shot, but only a very tiny amount, that thin strip of distant field: the light does nothing for that, and again there are no regular shapes or patterns to hold interest, just a random mix of fields. And the sky ... well, at least you avoided the real fear of a blank blue sky.

Such mundane subjects, in my view, require moments of exceptional clarity of light, and the skill and luck to capture that, to be interesting: the light here is your major problem after your choice of subject. It nust isn't doing anything for this scene ... other than making it visible. There's no shape and definition to the foreground, no texture tto the far fields. It's almost as though you've decided that the rule of thirds is enough all by itself.

Viewpoint is something you could happily play with here too - shooting up from the ground, including some of that vegetation at the botttom of fframe would still give you an example of deep depth of field, but with much more drama to the shot: even that change of a few feet in point of view would alter the whole impact of the image, especially compared with what appears to be a head-height shot. 3
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