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The Oppressor?
The Oppressor?
mykoleary


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Challenge: From the Ground Up (Classic Editing)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G2
Location: Fremont; Seattle, WA
Date: Apr 26, 2002
Aperture: f3.2
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/60 second
Date Uploaded: Apr 26, 2002

 This is a statue of Lenin. Said by some to be a savior to his people at the time, and by others to be an oppressor surpassed only by his replacement Stalin.

I overexposed this a bit on capture. I fixed this up in PS by decreasing brightness. A littel bit of curves adjustment followed, and then it was finished by a fast trip through variations (more blue, more red, mroe yellow, more yellow, darker.) It was then resampled to 640x480 and sharpened.

Statistics
Place: 31 out of 103
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Avg (commenters): 6.6818
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Avg (non-participants): 5.4151
Views since voting: 1018
Votes: 191
Comments: 22
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/05/2002 10:49:00 AM
I like the black and white on it. There is lots of contrast as well.
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 05/04/2002 08:08:00 AM
Nice angle, good clarity, and from the ground up. Nice B/W effect.
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 05/03/2002 06:53:00 PM
Hi Grandpa! Unique image. Good detail.
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 05/03/2002 06:18:00 AM
Works well in B&W. Could you have taken it from an even lower angle?
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 05/02/2002 02:05:00 PM
Good B&W shot.
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 05/01/2002 09:06:00 PM
powerful ... more of the face please.
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 05/01/2002 11:04:00 AM
Good angle and the b&w together with the caption really brings the point across.
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 05/01/2002 10:05:00 AM
Good angle, and nice, moody tone.
 05/01/2002 07:53:00 AM
I like this a lot but there seems to a bit of a flatness to it. Maybe if you would have left this in RGB/color mode and desaturated you could have given the subject a bit more contrast/depth. The worst way to do black and white transfers of color shots is to go to grayscale. Not saying this is how you did this but for some reason digital loses something in B&W unless you leave the photo in color mode and desaturate, perhaps leaving some tonal shift in it as well..
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 04/30/2002 09:19:00 PM
Cool. Very powerful image. Greyscale works well here. Great depth of field and sharpness. Very natural looking. I can imagine the sculpturer "chipping away" to create this job. Keep it up!
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 04/30/2002 09:57:00 AM
This is a very well executed photo.. I'm impressed!
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 04/30/2002 09:33:00 AM
Great framing. Got just enough of th head to show what statue is. Evokes emotion of being at this guy's mercy.
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 04/30/2002 07:21:00 AM
Nice texture. Good use of black and white. Nice framing. Technically, I wonder if the levels should be adjusted because I don't see any true 'white' highlights, but that might have made the sky white too. The greyness might actually work though, it makes it look more 'oppressive'.
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 04/29/2002 07:29:00 PM
Cool shot, b/w is fitting. I don't like the title tho =P
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 04/29/2002 05:20:00 PM
good shot
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 04/29/2002 03:02:00 PM
Good shot but too much body mass. Would be good if you can show more of the face.
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 04/29/2002 02:00:00 PM
Very nice. Good use of black and white to convey the historical importance of this figure. I'm no history buff, so at the risk of sounding like an idiot, this is Lenin, correct?
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 04/29/2002 11:46:00 AM
very nice. Every part of the pic seems to be crisp and in focus.
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 04/29/2002 10:54:00 AM
if you are going to take photos of statues this is the way to go. good job.
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 04/29/2002 08:41:00 AM
good choice for B&W, lots of nice textures and a boring sky, make the B&W work well!
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 04/29/2002 07:26:00 AM
Great angle!
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 04/29/2002 12:33:00 AM
This is the guy thats been giving me all these problems? son of a bitch lets kill him!
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