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Loneliness Takes its Toll on an ANCIENT Fort!
Loneliness Takes its Toll on an ANCIENT Fort!
doctabrez


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Challenge: Abandoned Buildings (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Location: Fort Chapora, Vagator Beach, Goa, India
Date: Apr 10, 2005
Aperture: f/5.0
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/800
Date Uploaded: Apr 10, 2005

An old Mughal Fort in Old Goa, abandoned after the Portuguese annexed it in the sixteenth century!

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06/02/2005 06:41:21 AM
Thanks Brad for ur valuable comments!
hey buddy these are really useful and i'd be more than happy to hear more from u!
thanks!
Originally posted by BradP:

At 480x313 pixels, a lot of potential detail is lost. In the future, try and use the 640 pixels on the longest side to your advantage. Image is also only 115K - still had more file size to go. Use as much of the 150K as possible to reduce how much compression the shot gets.
The site has some excellent tutorials on preparing a shot for a challenge in the Forums, Tutorials section.
In regards to fitting the challenge of Abandoned Buildings, the shot's main focal point falls on the people instead of the ruins in the background.
Hope this helps and isn't taken offensively as it surely isn't meant to.
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04/19/2005 10:25:17 PM
At 480x313 pixels, a lot of potential detail is lost. In the future, try and use the 640 pixels on the longest side to your advantage. Image is also only 115K - still had more file size to go. Use as much of the 150K as possible to reduce how much compression the shot gets.
The site has some excellent tutorials on preparing a shot for a challenge in the Forums, Tutorials section.
In regards to fitting the challenge of Abandoned Buildings, the shot's main focal point falls on the people instead of the ruins in the background.
Hope this helps and isn't taken offensively as it surely isn't meant to.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
04/18/2005 07:04:45 PM
It seems to be more a photo of hikers... oh and by the way, there is a structure of some sort way off in the distance. Know what I mean?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
04/18/2005 04:37:40 PM
The picture doesn't convey lonliness to me
04/18/2005 12:01:44 PM
not themeatic. tourist pix.
04/18/2005 11:33:16 AM
Looks like a snapshot of your last trip in the desert. Main subject should have been the building/ruin in the background, not your friends. Any closer shot of the ruin would have been better.
04/17/2005 09:42:52 PM
needed an increase in contrast.
04/17/2005 06:32:24 PM
This looks as though it could use a little contrast adjustment - seems hazy.
04/17/2005 03:33:29 AM
I am not sure whether this is about the abandoned fort ... or the people walking towards it.
04/15/2005 05:14:02 PM
Do you feel this would have been better composed without the tourists?
04/15/2005 03:17:28 AM
I would have prefered to be able to see the textures and details of the building
  Photographer found comment helpful.
04/14/2005 10:42:35 PM
Sorry, this seems more like a snapshot with the emphasis on the people and not on the building. I would have gotten closer to the building and if you absolutely had to have a person in for perspective, you might have limited it to one.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
04/14/2005 06:58:55 PM
can't see the building to well
  Photographer found comment helpful.
04/14/2005 06:03:27 PM
The contrast of the photo is a little low - there appear to be no colors darker than about 8-12% of full value. This could be fixed in about 3 seconds in Photoshop. I'm afraid the four guys wearing hats do nothing for the photo. We're a little too far away from the subject to see anything interesting about it. Even if the sky had been filled with a beautiful sunset, it would be hard to argue that the photo was about and abandoned building and the photo would not have worked well.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
04/14/2005 01:36:52 PM
Sorry, this just looks like a snapshot. The main subject really should be the fort.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
04/13/2005 10:11:28 PM
Too hard to see the structure. It looks like you're taking pictures of the people.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
04/13/2005 08:54:47 PM
The subject matter is decent, but the composition is nothing special. Also, it really lacks in contrast and the sky (weather) could have been better captured at a different time.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
04/13/2005 06:08:12 AM
Wish there was more of the building and less of the humans...
04/13/2005 12:07:23 AM
Pic doesn't seem to focus on the theme. . .Needed to see more of the fort?
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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