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Challenge: Late Night (Basic Editing III)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S1 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: May 3, 2005
Aperture: 3.1
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Sky, Digital Art
Date Uploaded: May 3, 2005

 Waning crescent moon and spruce(?) tree next door, shot from my front porch. All of my night shots typically have a lot of noise, so I wanted to shoot/compose something which would take advantage of it rather than fight to eliminate it.

It would look better if much of the sharpening wasn't wiped out by the amount of JPEG compression needed to squeeze this image under the 150kb entry limit.

Sort-of inspired by (the idea of) Van Gogh's famous painting.

-RGB Curve and color curves to separate the tree from the sky.
-USM at 400%/32 dia/TH=0 applied to Blue Channel to accentuate noise
-RGB and Green Curves
-USM at 200%/16 dia/TH=0 (not sure I included this step in final version)
-Blue Curve
-Cropped from the bottom to 3:2 ratio
-Reduced width to 600 pixels to save kb
-USM at 16%/64 dia/TH-0
-Save as JPEG at 6/10 quality setting

Statistics
Place: 299 out of 334
Avg (all users): 3.9807
Avg (commenters): 4.5161
Avg (participants): 3.7823
Avg (non-participants): 4.1163
Views since voting: 1515
Views during voting: 598
Votes: 362
Comments: 35
Favorites: 0

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 07/01/2013 08:20:52 PM
Well, hecks bells, Paul. Yes, this is Van Gogh.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/11/2005 01:59:07 AM
..paint ure palet blue and black
it has mood and is cute
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/11/2005 01:37:32 AM
Wow, what a nice variety of comments! I knew a lot of people would hate this, but it's nice to see a sprinkling of the others as well.

While agree this was highly processed, I'm not sure it's really over-processed, considering what I was starting with:


Re-sized original capture.

The editing steps are listed in the Photographer's Comments area above.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/10/2005 11:24:43 AM
I just feel that what you've done to this image, has not helped it at all. sorry.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/10/2005 08:27:02 AM
Well, Mr/Ms VanG, neat picture!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/10/2005 08:09:17 AM
Wow! How did you so this?!

  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/10/2005 08:05:04 AM
how did you do that ?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/09/2005 10:26:59 AM
did you rip this out of a coloring book
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/08/2005 07:24:29 PM
I love abstract, nice work
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/08/2005 12:35:12 PM
This is a refreshing twist on this challenge. The image is not outstanding in itself but the effect you had created in post-editing brings it back to a high level of appeal for me. If you do not get slaughtered by the purists you might rankhigh. Goo luck!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/06/2005 10:11:51 PM
i like the over processed moon ... nice bold approach ... does not work so well for the tree tho which should not dominate photo ... recomposed with more moon and less tree with same extreme post photo editing has good potential
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/06/2005 04:54:43 PM
I like the posterized effect very much around the trees. Neat glowing effect.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/06/2005 09:30:59 AM
This is a nice image. I really like the variation of blues seen in this image. Nice work.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/05/2005 11:40:48 PM
I like this effect, most won't
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/05/2005 11:14:14 PM
What plugin did you use?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/05/2005 09:06:57 PM
ribbon coming this way
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/05/2005 08:08:27 PM
To be honest, I find the effect used on this photo somewhat distracting. But I do like the subject and it's placement to the moon. It's reminiscent of Van Gohg. But I think that for my own tastes I would have enjoyed seeing something less abstract.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/05/2005 06:15:29 PM
Looks over sharpen or something does not look real
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/05/2005 01:16:04 PM
I think what really makes this shot is the moon. I can only guess that you're getting slammed in this challenge, but I respect the effort. I'd be interested to know if this was done with a high iso setting, or with photoshop. Nice glow around the trees by the way.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/05/2005 12:21:06 PM
inspired and original, but will not score well.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/05/2005 12:15:51 PM
Very original. Looks like a painting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/05/2005 10:45:21 AM
I don't think that your experiment has worked.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/05/2005 08:53:28 AM
Wow, very stary. NIce photo, just looks unreal
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/05/2005 01:14:41 AM
This looks more like a painting than a photograph. There's such a thing as being too heavily processed.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/04/2005 11:07:41 PM
Very different, Vincent! I like it.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/04/2005 10:13:49 PM
Very strange effect, but I like it.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/04/2005 04:23:16 PM
One of the few that say "late night" to me! Nice grasp of the theme!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/04/2005 02:01:43 PM
This looks too over-processed to me. I like the composition, though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/04/2005 10:05:58 AM
This reminds me of story books I'd read as a kid!! It was a different world back then.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/04/2005 09:57:45 AM
I like when you preserve the integrity of a photo.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/04/2005 06:39:39 AM
Too much editing.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/04/2005 02:30:53 AM
This looks weird
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/04/2005 01:38:53 AM
Interesting effect, but I don't care for it. Sorry.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/04/2005 12:42:45 AM
This is an interesting photo. I like the light shrouding the tree. The moon is odd however, to me. Interesting technique.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/04/2005 12:14:04 AM
I think the hardcore post-processing effects detract from what the image could have been.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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