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Big Ben
Big Ben
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Best of 2004 (Advanced Editing III*)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Location: London
Date: Dec 25, 2004
Aperture: f/9
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Sky, Architecture
Date Uploaded: Jan 15, 2005

 This is a shot I took over Christmas vacation while I was in london.

I chose this shot because I knew:
1. I take my best pictures when I'm in new places therefore this is better than many shots i get within my own house or neighborhood that i have taken pictures of a million times already.
2. I like the angle of this shot, it makes it different than your regular straight up shot.

Post Processing:
Using PS Elements 2.0
I cropped this to make it tighter around the tower. I raised saturation as well as brightness.
Thats it.

Statistics
Place: 354 out of 530
Avg (all users): 5.3246
Avg (commenters): 5.8571
Avg (participants): 5.2792
Avg (non-participants): 5.4750
Views since voting: 830
Views during voting: 462
Votes: 345
Comments: 7
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/27/2005 07:19:47 PM
Challenge: 7 I love big ben
Composition:6 I think a straigter shot would have been nice
Technical: 7
Appeal: 7
Overall: 7
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/27/2005 05:59:59 PM
Nice as a "record" shot (a record of your vacation, Big Ben's existence, etc) but nothing here really wows me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/23/2005 07:50:10 PM
Have you tried this in B&W and with burnt in clouds? with some experimentation, this could be made into a very different shot... (VP)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/23/2005 09:13:47 AM
nice shot of the tower. i hope you're getting some good comments and suggestions, and this you're not getting overlooked in this monster challenge. good luck!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/22/2005 01:04:24 AM
Like the colouring here - don't know whether thats beacause you bumped the saturation but whatever the case it works. The composition is perhaps a little too straightforward, but I quite like this nonetheless.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/21/2005 01:20:46 PM
Good one.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/16/2005 09:00:47 AM
You've done well with the glimmering gold, but there are two things about this photo I think are wrong. 1) It could do with being rotated to make the verticals vertical. 2) The stonework looks too orangey - maybe you could selectively tweak the saturation so the gold stays as it is, but the stonework looks less saturated.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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