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Challenge: Impressionism (Advanced Editing II*)
Collection: Garbage
Camera: Nikon D1X
Location: California
Date: Nov 14, 2004
Aperture: F6.7
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/180
Galleries: Vintage, Traditional Art
Date Uploaded: Nov 14, 2004

 This was created with the help of several lens filters. I added high levels of saturation, Contrast, Gaussian blur, Neatimage and Sharpen along with some dodge and burn to clean-up, enhance and exaggerate the effect.

I used generally acceptable tools, but I used them well beyond acceptable levels. I like the picture and I think it shows impressionism, But I'm not sure if the voters will still consider it a photograph. I enjoyed the challenge and learned a little about the strange effects from combining opposite tools like Neatimage and Gaussian noise. I like old grainy aged looking photographs and I will be able to use what I learned from this challenge in some of my new stuff. (To a much less degree).

Statistics
Place: 32 out of 39
Avg (all users): 5.7947
Avg (commenters): 6.1364
Avg (participants): 4.6875
Avg (non-participants): 5.9094
Views since voting: 919
Views during voting: 682
Votes: 341
Comments: 24
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 11/22/2004 01:18:58 AM
unbelieveable that this didnt ribbon, i thought it was the best.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/21/2004 11:51:54 PM
Very clever of you to use noise and saturation to provide your brushstrokes. Good color palette and composition. The image could lean more toward pointillism than impressionism (which could cost you some votes), but a strong entry overall.
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 11/21/2004 09:15:22 PM
Some areas of the image work well with your effect, others are not so good.
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 11/21/2004 03:20:00 PM
This certainly has a painterly quality to it. I don't find 'painterly' necessary to meet the challenge, but this does. The compositon and colors are very well used here.
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 11/21/2004 07:24:16 AM
Invitational Challenge Level: Experienced

Challenge link: weak - although you have depicted an Impressionist style.

Image critique: Scene is OK, but it's important to grasp what the challenge is about. This is not photographic impressionism but filtered digital art and you've clearly misunderstood the aim here.

Out-of-challenge appeal: none for me, as the FX are crude and reminiscent of some initial experiments with Photoshop.

Score: 3
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 11/20/2004 03:26:06 AM
Not sure if the noise was intentionally introduced, but it detracts from a magnificent scene. I would rank this higher if the noise was better handled.
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 11/19/2004 11:26:53 PM
Looks photoshopped... I'll come back for a closer look though. Edit: I still think this is photoshop, as such it doesn't hold a whole lot of interest to me. The color noise is just too artificial. I cannot think of anything natural that would give bright cyan noise both on light white, on the fence, etc. I think this is just 'add noise' feature.
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 11/19/2004 06:41:15 PM
When I was thirtheen I had to study impressionism for my school. Beeing Dutch we were made familiar with Van Gogh and that lead to Pissaro, Monet, Manet and Degas. I've seen some paintings in real live and they made a good 'impression' on me.
The saturated colors and pointillism of this reminds me of that. The composition is pretty good as well. It is a wonderful picture.
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 11/19/2004 11:29:04 AM
Did the impressionists use digital noise? ; )
I have to admit that this is looking better than when I voted (+1 on its way!) but overall it still reminds me too much of a very noisy digital image. Otherwise, this is a nice scene to snap, and well composed.
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 11/18/2004 09:52:54 AM
Vice nice good job, my wife loved it!
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 11/18/2004 07:52:13 AM
I liked this a lot, but was disappointed on the tilt of the gazebo, could have used a slight rotation.
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 11/17/2004 08:51:51 PM
WoW Great Capture 10
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 11/17/2004 05:47:59 PM
The blue, most of the gazebo, the plants and fence look good. The roof and the trees look to jarring compared to the rest of the scene. I wonder if the photographer used selective sharpening for the effect. Hope it's in your notes.
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 11/16/2004 10:00:59 PM
Superb. Colors, texture, composition and light.
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 11/16/2004 03:33:23 PM
to much noice, wrong effect over saturated, sorry but I am not impressed with this one since you are a "master"
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 11/16/2004 12:27:16 PM
meets the challenge for me - well executed, just wish the building wasn't tilting a little towards the right - 9
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 11/16/2004 03:03:15 AM
Too much post editing. This would have looked better with a little blur or shot through milky glass or something. I just don't really care for a picture that is obviously post edited.
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 11/16/2004 12:50:43 AM
Must be the winner. meets this challenge but is also a wonderful photograph, this is IT.
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 11/15/2004 11:43:01 PM
returning for comments.
A cute effect but resembling more the pointilistic style, yet the colors a very charming . Bumping up.
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 11/15/2004 07:12:06 PM
there are a lot of things i like about this image, and a lot of things i could like about this image. the post processing is not one of them. i am trying to judge each image as to how it makes me feel as opposed to the mechanics involved either in camera or post-processing. i'm sorry, but this one just feels, to me, that you had to go to far to get the result. if i'm wrong, i'll gladly retract and eat my words.
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 11/15/2004 11:03:57 AM
Beautiful effect, but IMO has completely violated photographic integrity. 2
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 11/15/2004 10:09:56 AM
great conversion to Impressionism - looks like Renoir did it
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 11/15/2004 09:06:40 AM
I think this would have been much butter with just the blur, the noise doesn't really do it for me.
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 11/15/2004 04:18:05 AM
Nice shot, this really is what impressionism is all about. 10.
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