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Challenge: Calendar (Advanced Editing II)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Location: Forth&Clyde canal, Camelon, Falkirk, Scotland
Date: Nov 6, 2004
Aperture: f4
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/100
Galleries: Nature, Water
Date Uploaded: Nov 6, 2004

 Taken with the 70-200mmf4L
Adjustments to contrast(curves)to darken shadows and exaggerate highlights.(which will probably get commented on because of the loss of detail in these areas..but I do like the effect)Saturation increased on yellow to heighten the Autumn colours.Image cropped and resized then sharpened.A little dodging and burning
Finally a run through "NeatImage" at 50% to soften the foliage.

Statistics
Place: 23 out of 190
Avg (all users): 6.4472
Avg (commenters): 7.6818
Avg (participants): 6.1887
Avg (non-participants): 6.7419
Views since voting: 1411
Views during voting: 301
Votes: 199
Comments: 26
Favorites: 7 (view)

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 11/15/2004 12:19:50 PM
I think this is a lovely, dreamy image. Well done. :o)
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 11/15/2004 04:31:23 AM
I didn't vote or enter this one Gordon, but sure would have voted this highly.
Nicely done, and congrats again on the high placing.
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 11/15/2004 04:04:20 AM
I don't understand why this pic is not in the top ten
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/14/2004 03:29:18 PM
Looks dreamy and the colors are great.
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 11/13/2004 09:56:12 PM
Not sure what this is all about but it looks very royal :) Love the colors! 10
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 11/13/2004 08:20:56 PM
it;'s a neat effect, but it just looks to "fake" I like the style, but maybe not so much with this image. keep it up!
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 11/13/2004 08:14:07 PM
This looks like Gordon Whyte's trick with NI - most specifically in the resultant texture of those leaves. I can go with the kind of soft/non-soft feel of it for a calendar shot, but I'm not great fan of it photographically, I'm afraid. It'll garner a 6 though, for aptness, at least.
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 11/12/2004 05:04:10 PM
I don't like the treatment on this at all! (I know some people like it a lot). But this is my opinion.
The details are lost and the point where the boats are meeing the wate all all smudged except for the one that's the closest. I think I would have likes it bettter without this sort of treatment. I think it would have looked better with a more subtle treatment.
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 11/12/2004 01:10:12 AM
Nicely done, good eye and good execution.
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 11/11/2004 07:02:59 PM
I think this effect that you used have improved the image, nice colors and good motive, maybe a little higher aiming of the camera would have improved the photo, with a little less of the water in the foreground and little more of the trees.
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 11/11/2004 02:10:19 AM
Very, very nice. Just a little overexposed in the white reflections in the water, but otherwise perfect.
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 11/10/2004 10:40:01 PM
I like the effect. It's a bit overdone especially in the top right, but I like the way the boats turned out.
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 11/10/2004 08:43:56 AM
Hmmmm...me likes
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 11/10/2004 07:14:32 AM
Love the impressionistic feel of the foliage.
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 11/10/2004 06:17:15 AM
Definatly my favorite. Amazing colors, great composition, intelligent use of Photoshop gives this a impressionismic look.
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 11/09/2004 11:54:24 PM
Great photo, looks a lot like an oil painting. Wish the foreground water wasn't quite as bright.
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 11/09/2004 11:12:33 PM
Nice idea but the trees look too overprocessed to me
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 11/09/2004 08:14:55 PM
Stunning color and composition. Well done on this tranquil, beautiful shot!
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 11/09/2004 08:14:29 PM
Awesome photo and subject matter, this is a definite winner. 9.
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 11/09/2004 06:49:02 PM
I could swear I have seen this???? Love it either way. Almost as if seeing it thorugh glass. One of my favorites.
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 11/09/2004 11:12:01 AM
lovely capture, perfect calender pic!
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 11/09/2004 06:32:09 AM
I like the soft focus in this image, only flaw in this image IMO is the blown out highlights of the reflections in the water. Great shot, one of the best in the challenge.
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 11/09/2004 03:22:33 AM
A perfect callendar scene. I might have preferred the trees to be less cropped vertically, but I feel this deserves an easy eight given the challenge scope.
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 11/08/2004 03:47:39 PM
Beautiful fall colors.
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 11/08/2004 01:32:09 PM
beautiful scene, can easily imagine this on a calendar - well done
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 11/08/2004 09:59:43 AM
This is fabulous - great composition and fantastic colouring. 10
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