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Sunrise Over Atlanta
Sunrise Over Atlanta
kiropractic


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Moods (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Location: Stone Mountain Park (stonemountainpark.com)
Date: Apr 27, 2005
Aperture: f5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/100
Galleries: Sky, Landscape
Date Uploaded: Apr 27, 2005

 Taken at about 6:45am overlooking Atlanta from Stone Mountain Park (www.stonemountainpark.com). Stone Mtn. is the largest granite outcropping in the world and towers 1,683 feet above sea level. I metered just lateral to the sun and then bracketed my exposure many times above and below the suggested reading. I did this because the hike up the mountain before dawn wasn't fun. The fog was so bad at times that I could not see 4 or 5 feet in front of me, but once I hiked above the fog all was clear.

Edits:
Rotated and Cropped
NeatImage
Sharpen and Contrast
Resize for submission

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. -Ansel Adams

Statistics
Place: 174 out of 183
Avg (all users): 4.4756
Avg (commenters): 4.8000
Avg (participants): 4.2000
Avg (non-participants): 4.6276
Views since voting: 1014
Views during voting: 343
Votes: 225
Comments: 22
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/08/2005 10:55:56 PM
This one probably get voted down pretty bad because people will think it does not meet the contest.

But I really like it, and it says mood to me.
 05/08/2005 09:35:23 PM
Lots of blur. Sharper focus may have served this shot better?
 05/08/2005 03:38:25 PM
I am totally in love with sunset photos :-) This one has some great colors. I wonder if the depth of field was set to focus on the small stream, how that would change the mood of this shot. I love the mist and clouds rolling over the hills.
 05/07/2005 02:15:52 AM
I find the grass in the foreground distracting. Sometimes objects in the foreground add context and give greater significance to the focal point, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.
 05/05/2005 03:37:42 PM
The softness is a little distracting, although i know you meant it to set the modd. I like the horizon,perhaps more distant landscape and not so much in the foreground.
 05/05/2005 03:21:47 PM
better focus weeds !
 05/05/2005 12:10:34 PM
The morning, never new Atlanta could be so pretty. The colours of the sunrise are soft and inviting. A few things I would change, and all of them are in the foreground of the photo. The grass, for me detracts due it being an out of focus silhouette. The land grass really steals from this photo and makes it look like the subject. The water is a secondary destruction and also draws away from the focus, plus it is not reflecting enough of the light from the sunrise. Then the land below is in focus, but does not seem to be capturing any of the mood from the sun. I hope you also captured a photo from the land forward to the sunrise as well. 5
 05/04/2005 06:26:35 PM
Not exactly the "mood" I'm looking for in this challenge. Also, this shot would benefit greatly from a landscape orientation, cropping out the bottom bit of water, halfway through that barrier there, and then a little above the one bit of grass..

but that's just me.
 05/03/2005 04:58:04 PM
beautiful colour but I find the out of focus foreground a bit distracting
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 05/03/2005 02:13:01 PM
I'm having trouble finding a part of the photo that is in focus.
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 05/03/2005 02:00:13 PM
Nothing here is sharp. Some nice colours though.
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 05/02/2005 08:30:00 PM
this is too blurry and the foreground is a bit distracting...maybe a crop would help?
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 05/02/2005 04:24:44 PM
Feels all out of focus and fuzzy.
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 05/02/2005 02:00:49 PM
Beautiful colors and shots. Trying to evote emotion in the viewer perhaps?
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 05/02/2005 01:24:46 PM
Very pretty. I would crop out the bottom though, its very blurry and doesn't add to the photo at all. 6
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 05/02/2005 01:13:02 PM
too out of focus...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/02/2005 12:30:26 PM
great shot....at first it looks like an oceanscape
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 05/02/2005 10:15:03 AM
Nice but wish the whole shot was in focus.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/02/2005 06:08:43 AM
the foreground is too much out of focus; plus, not for this challenge
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/02/2005 04:09:49 AM
Although I don̢۪t say this is a bad picture I have scored this low.
Low in my book is not extremely low, but I guess there will be other people thinking the same way I do who don̢۪t leave a comment.
Don̢۪t take this the wrong way, this is my own opinion, and I am trying to let you understand what some voters may think.

In my opinion this does not meet the challenge, the description of the challenge: Take a picture that captures an emotion.
I looked hard, but I don̢۪t see an emotion. This could be my fault, but that̢۪s the reason why I voted lower as I would normaly do.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/02/2005 12:42:33 AM
way too blurry
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 05/02/2005 12:35:28 AM
I like the cloud cover, but the foreground plants are distracting to me.
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