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Edinburgh's Scott monument
Edinburgh's Scott monument
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Challenge: Landmarks (Advanced Editing II)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S3000
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Date: Dec 5, 2004
Aperture: f2.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1.4
Galleries: Cityscape, Landscape
Date Uploaded: Dec 5, 2004

Scott as in Walter Scott, the writer of 'Waverley' and 'Heart of Midlothian' among others. Just got into the Centre of town to catch the last light of the day. The ferris wheel is part of Edinburgh's Christmas display and the German market, the funfair and the ice rink are just below in Princes St. Gardens.
Changed hue/saturation, USM, curves, brightness contrast. Duplicated layer and applied optic verve radiany filter which looks like neat image and soft focus combined. Blended with background at around 40%.

Statistics
Place: 28 out of 143
Avg (all users): 6.1690
Avg (commenters): 7.0714
Avg (participants): 5.9368
Avg (non-participants): 6.3559
Views since voting: 905
Views during voting: 345
Votes: 213
Comments: 17
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/11/2004 06:44:42 PM
What a sky! Great colors make the landmark really sing.
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12/11/2004 04:39:23 PM
Great landmark, and you picked a perfect time of day for taking that photo.
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12/11/2004 03:18:12 AM
The lights on the top of the tower seem like glowing eyes on a Thai/Cambodian Buddha, who is wearing a pointed hat.His mouth is also slightly glowing. I LIKE the photo - great sunset colors, nice silhouettes... but the top of it got my imagination in gear.
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12/10/2004 11:39:20 AM
Great colors the sky and the lights are beautiful. The horizan seems to slop to the left. Just rotate right a few degrees and this will be a great shot to print and frame. Nice shot.
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12/10/2004 10:05:48 AM
Composition: 9, Nice placement of the church.
Technical: 7, Seems to be a little canted to the left.
Appeal: 9, nice contrast between sky and subject.
Challenge: 10, .
Overall Calculated Average Score: 9, Beautiful job
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12/10/2004 07:19:18 AM
This is an excellent subject for this challenge and I really like the bright colors. The only thing you might want to consider is finding an angle that highlights the monument without the ferris wheel right behind it because it seems to detract from the main subject. But regardless, this is an excellent photo. Very nice job.
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12/09/2004 09:47:46 AM
Interesting contrast of a tranquil sky and an incandescent urban scene.
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12/09/2004 12:20:36 AM
I like the attempt but I guess there isn't too much overall appeal in the image as a whole. Nothing seems to much stand out and nothing is vibrant enough to really go wow.
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12/08/2004 08:47:34 PM
Very cool lighting and contrasts. I love the use of the negative space to create a clean image out of what could easily look cluttered by nature.
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12/08/2004 06:50:24 PM
Where did the Big wheel spring from??????

Really nice picture
good luck
9
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12/08/2004 05:56:15 PM
some really strange colours in the sky here. long exposure?
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12/08/2004 12:25:55 PM
The beautiful "painted" sky really adds to this image.
Hope you weren`t sitting on the roof of Waverley station to get this shot??
Long lens from the bridges?
A bonus point for pointing the camera towards Falkirk :)
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12/07/2004 10:47:09 AM
What a beautiful sky!
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12/06/2004 09:36:25 PM
This shot has very attractive colors. It appeals to me very much : ) 9
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12/06/2004 07:23:35 PM
Great sky, caught just at the right time.

Good luck
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12/06/2004 03:14:33 PM
Its nice capture but i feel some fight with beauty of sky and christmuss lights.
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12/06/2004 06:28:36 AM
great shot weel captured. i like the colors and composition.
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