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Steel Gourd
Steel Gourd
jbeazell


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Yellow Revisited (Basic Editing II)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S602Z
Location: Spring Valley Bridge
Date: Dec 7, 2004
Aperture: f2.8
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/900
Galleries: Nature, Still Life
Date Uploaded: Dec 7, 2004

 After a disappointing hike, only disappointing because I couldn’t find a single yellow leafed tree, I found this little gourd on the side of the road, half eaten by something wild. I thought it would make for something interesting. I also happened to be visiting the old and busted Spring Valley Bridge, and thought the two would go together.

PP :
1)auto color, auto levels
2)bumped up the saturation to +33 and tweaked the hue +4
3)USM: 85% / 1.0 pixels / 4 levels.
4)Flipped it over to Helicon Noise Filter, for a 110% run
5)Back to PS-CS, for a crop / resize / save for web.
I hope it does well. I love the shot!

Statistics
Place: 233 out of 393
Avg (all users): 4.8614
Avg (commenters): 5.8333
Avg (participants): 4.8792
Avg (non-participants): 4.8390
Views since voting: 648
Views during voting: 352
Votes: 267
Comments: 6
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/09/2004 09:57:22 PM
It's a pretty interesting-looking shot, and the gourd has a pretty heavy look to it, but the overall balance seems a little off...like the gourd wants to be in the center, but it's not, or it wants to be off to the side, but it's sitting in between. The left side feels really empty compared to the right, which has the heavy 'weight' of the gourd, along with the stuff in the background, and there's nothing on the left side to really offset that.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/09/2004 08:44:46 PM
Excellent composition and contrasts.
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 12/09/2004 02:21:39 AM
I dont' get it. Whatever that is, it just looks out of place.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/08/2004 11:55:29 PM
I like the dof for this shot very much. It really works. I also like the black color against the yellow. The setting is strange...not where you'd expect to find a gourd but it's a visually pleasing enough shot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/08/2004 01:34:57 AM
Interesting observation of likeness of bolt heads to gourd. The composition suffers from the picture being cut nearly in half horizontally. Perhaps if the gourd were moved further back, the camera moved to the right, so that it allowed more of the bridge to be seen and so that the gourd compared in pictorial size to the bolt heads A 5.
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 12/08/2004 12:27:53 AM
Outstanding composition and the texture on that gouard works great with the steel.
I gave you a big fat 10!
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