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Challenge: Landmarks (Advanced Editing II)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Location: Just off the A1 motorway, North East England.
Date: Dec 4, 2004
Aperture: f/14
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/250sec
Galleries: Emotive, Landscape
Date Uploaded: Dec 5, 2004

Details of the sculpture can be found here:
//www.gateshead.gov.uk/angel/

Shot on Saturday afternoon as the sun was going down, Sigma 18-35mm zoom, EOS 300D.
Post processing of Saturation, Curves, Dodging and Burning, cloned out half a figure from bottom left.

Statistics
Place: 53 out of 143
Avg (all users): 5.8537
Avg (commenters): 7.1250
Avg (participants): 5.7755
Avg (non-participants): 5.9252
Views since voting: 1085
Views during voting: 315
Votes: 205
Comments: 17
Favorites: 1 (view)


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12/14/2004 04:31:00 AM
Wow. This was my highest rated photo for the challenge. The lines and perspective are excellent, not to mention the colors and the great use of shadow. Sorry to see it out of the top 10, let alone under 6.

(Funny, I never noticed the oversharpening "halo", even on reviewing it. Now that I see all the comments, OK, its there, but doesn't seem that obvious to me. Hardly a major flaw, and easily fixed.)
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12/12/2004 04:48:44 PM
The image and echo are great, I find the hal from oversharpening, a little distracting.

But I always love the Angel of the North. even if I have not yet been fortunate to see it first hand, yet.
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12/11/2004 07:51:45 PM
a bit on the dark side, maybe my monitor isnt calibrated the same as yours...
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12/11/2004 01:20:40 PM
returning for comments:
A great sky give this image that mysterious look. A tad too overshaeprnned but the impact remains. Bumping up.
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12/10/2004 05:24:32 PM
This is a classic landmark, but it looks like it has been cut out from a different background.. there is visible fringing around the silhouette
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12/09/2004 03:25:02 AM
There is a distracting loss of contrast and a haloing effect introduced by what I suspect to be overly prominent use of the Highlights and Shadows filter or alternative to that effect. Otherwise technically sound.

With that aside, now for the good: I love the way you framed and composed this shot. The lone figure standing next to the larger subject adds so much more interest to this photograph. Well done.
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12/09/2004 12:10:43 AM
I like the angle, I like the way the wing gets larger into the side. The only thing really missing is a better background. Getting those colors to radiant might have really made this special.
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12/08/2004 06:52:15 PM
a bit too much USM?
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12/08/2004 03:39:41 PM
I like the tilt and angle.
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12/07/2004 11:34:48 AM
Nice sky! But the landmark might be too obscure (I've no idea what it is). Bit of a halo around it as well.
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12/07/2004 05:50:37 AM
very nice, congratulation
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12/06/2004 09:51:48 PM
I think the angle of this shot makes the whole feeling of "flying," its so great!
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12/06/2004 05:59:47 PM
I really love this picture the angle is just great and the person to make scale is very well positioned. Very good. The only thing that i think is not nice is the white contourn on the statue but the rest is fantastic, great job.
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12/06/2004 05:32:32 PM
I really like the way you have photographed it. The composition and use of perspetive/scale is outsatanding. But I just wisht that you had not partially ruined a great shot by sharpening it to the extreme. It almost looks like a composite now. It's sad that you were able to see it and capture it like this and have gone a bit far with digital tools.
But this is one of my favourites nevertherless because of what you were able to envision and capture. Great photography.
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12/06/2004 04:35:00 PM
Excellent! I really like the angle you have used and the lone figure works very well.
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12/06/2004 06:46:58 AM
this is thing i love about dpc. here's something i had never seen before dpc, and now i immediately recognize it. almost like that haystack thing that zoomdak does ;)

beautiful shot, great composition.
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12/06/2004 12:42:27 AM
i lov the contrast in this shot the whole image is great.

its really well composed having the pairleling figure (silo. of the man by the heals of the sclpt.) in the shot its awsome- GL
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