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Industrial 'Revolution'
Industrial 'Revolution'
Dr.Confuser


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Challenge: Wheels III (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D800
Lens: Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
Location: Seattle, Washington (USA)
Date: Jul 5, 2014
Aperture: f/3.5
ISO: 1600
Shutter: Various ~ 1/2000
Date Uploaded: Jul 6, 2014

 Photographer’s Notes
I took myself off to Seattle this morning to shoot for the three challenge entries this week. My first stop was Gasworks Park where there’s this neat industrial machinery. Maybe I’d find a wheel there – and I did.

Gasworks Park is the site of a gigantic 4th of July fireworks show which happened last night. When I arrive this morning the clean up was well underway. And there were 5 police cars, lights flashing, yellow crime scene tape …

I never did see what all the drama was. I left the police alone because they had their game faces on. They left me alone because you don’t mess with a photographer carrying an 8-pound camera and tripod!

After all that I found this shot that seemed a good fit for the theme this week.

Post Processing
• Merge 7 Photos to HDR (Photomatix)
• Tonemap (Photomatix)
• Saturation (PSCC Hue/Sat layer)
• Selective Desat (PSCC Channel Mixer – Masked)
• Resize (PSCC)
• Sharpen Again (PSCC High Pass Overlay Layer)
• Save for Web (PSCC)

Camera Data
• Date: 2014.07.05
• Camera: Nikon D800E
• Lens: Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
• ISO: 1600
• Aperture: f/3.5
• Shutter: Various ~ 1/200

Statistics
Place: 11 out of 81
Avg (all users): 6.0000
Avg (commenters): 7.6667
Avg (participants): 6.0444
Avg (non-participants): 5.9556
Views since voting: 370
Views during voting: 153
Votes: 90
Comments: 4
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 09/07/2014 07:15:23 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Initial impression: Wow, that is ONE. BIG. WHEEL. Fits the challenge descrip beautifully, I love the pun on *revolution*, but this was deemed only worthy of an overall 6 by the voters...? Let's take another look.

Technically: the lighting is good if a little glarey in some areas on the hub; comp is good, the crop eliminates a chunk of the outer wheel. Even though there are other wheels within it to see, DPCers seem to like a level of completion in what has been started. So to me, that would mean that the cropped-out right side of the wheel may have cost you.

Artistically: it looks like the selective desat may have been done a little quickly, on the topside and down towards the right. The sudden change in tones does seem to stop the flow from one component to the others.

Either way, you finished just outside the top ten so nothing to sneeze at.

Hope this has been helpful, feel free to pm me!

Susan
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/15/2014 08:32:03 AM
nice processing here
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 07/14/2014 11:34:57 PM
Already voted- This was a great capture! the detail on this wheel is amazing..
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 07/14/2014 04:57:02 PM
Nice photo and nice title too. This photo tells a story.
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