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Beautiful Despite Abandonment
Beautiful Despite Abandonment
mischff


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Challenge: Abandoned Buildings (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Nikon D70
Location: FM 1314, Porter, Texas
Date: Apr 11, 2005
Aperture: F25
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 1/25th
Galleries: Emotive, Rural
Date Uploaded: Apr 12, 2005

I found this place after a long day of searching for just the right building. I love the light at the end of the day and the wildflowers growing all around the building. I sharpened this image and put a hue saturation layer on to make everything pop.

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04/25/2005 08:52:21 PM
*Critique Club*

And we meet again. (I think it's cause I'm the only one working on this crit club list lol)
Anyway, I think this is a cute building. I'm not really sure that you captured the feeling of abandoned though. When I think abandoned, I think of peeling paint, broken windows, things falling off, older. While you can see that this isn't the most well loved house on the planet, it does look livable.
Setting that aside and on to the photo, I personally like the angle and framing/cropping that you chose. I like how the house is off to the left side and you have placed it out of the photo enough where you have also shown us some of the surroundings.
There is some interesting lighting, but careful, cause it does get too bright in a couple of places. See the 2 poles closest to the left frame of the photo? They are a little hot.
Focus seems a slight bit soft, but not too soft that it is hard to look at. I think that a crisper focus would help us to see the detail in the roof and flowers surrounding the house.
The address sign looks very new compared to the house, maybe that's what gives it kind of a 'non abandoned' look.
There is a white thing in the background that is a bit of a distraction. It doesn't seem to have a purpose in the photo since we can't really tell what it is anyway, and therefor doesn't seem to add anything to the overall visual appeal of the photo, so I don't think that it would take anything away if it were to be removed from the photo. In fact, I think that it might help draw more attention towards the house and forground since I wouldn't have to sit here and try to figure out what it is.
Overall I find this a pleasing, relaxing image to look at. ~Heather~
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/18/2005 03:09:36 AM
Nice artistic interpretation on this challenge.
There is beauty in what society calls an eyesore.
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04/14/2005 05:56:26 PM
Good color and contrast. It's processed pretty good, but there just isn't anything that grabs my attention. My eyes just keep wandering, looking for something to focus on.
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04/13/2005 10:23:39 PM
Nice wildflowers - FM - Farm Road? Texas? Nice light as well.
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04/13/2005 04:02:58 PM
Another angle? Would like to see more of the building.
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04/13/2005 09:13:40 AM
isnt it great when the sun cast the light in all the right places. nice shot.
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04/13/2005 07:34:34 AM
Very blurry. The building itself doesn't look abandoned but looks more like something you'd see in the country. The windows look all in tact which would suggest that it is just a low income house instead of abandoned.


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