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Snow Man Tree
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Challenge: Classy Holiday Decorations (Advanced Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Location: Home
Date: Dec 19, 2004
Aperture: f4.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 5
Galleries: Interior
Date Uploaded: Dec 19, 2004

I was going to take photos of the Europe's larges tree, which is situated in Belem, But was too tired and it was already late. So i came up with this ideia in the last minutes.

Just took a long exposure and zoomed in.

Shot in raw
Then photoshop
Crop, And darken the image.

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12/29/2004 06:23:38 AM
This comment comes courtesy of the Critique Club :)

I've looked through your portfolio before, and judging by your work am fairly sure that you can probably pick out anything that you may not like here yourself. Either way, you asked for a critique from the CC, so I'll give ya one :p.

Like mffnqueen, I appreciate/like your zoom technique here - you definitely used it well in order to emphasize the snowmen on the tree. It even gives the viewer a bit of a three dimensional feel. Unfortunately, for this to have worked, you had to cut the lights... and by cutting the lights, you ended up underexposing the tree and surroundings. I'm not sure if there's much of a workaround for this, considering your choice of technique. I would say to possibly try flipping the lights on for a split second, but at this aperture it may end up blowing out the effect of the zoom. Possibly a smaller aperture would allow this, but I've never really tried anything like this so I'm sorry to say that I can't give a definitive idea on that.

I tend to like the fact that there isn't a snowman in the bottom left, as it throws a bit of tension into the image that I like. But, not sure how everyone else felt about this.

Hope some of this might've helped. Happy Holidays!
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12/23/2004 01:53:15 PM
wonderful!! i've tried this effect myself several times, and I could never get it to look right, but you've managed to do it fantastically! i don't see this one as a winner, but I do think it's a nice shot.
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