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Lamp and Shadows
Lamp and Shadows
Zed Pobre


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Late Night (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Location: LSU Avenue, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Date: May 2, 2005
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 2 seconds
Galleries: Architecture
Date Uploaded: May 3, 2005

 The lamp at the top of a house, taken shortly after midnight on a street in Baton Rouge. I had to do some massive fighting with my tripod on this, leading me to finally give in and order a new one. Editing was minor.

In a sense, this is actually an out-take from that night. It's a much shorter exposure and tighter crop version of a shot of the entire top of the house, including intricate green and dark shadows along the surface. What was (to me) the more interesting shot was marred by a few visible imperfections that I suspect would have caused it to do poorly in the challenge, however. I'll post the alternate when I do my post-mortem for this challenge.

Editing steps:
1) Import from RAW, reducing contrast and shadows somewhat
2) Crop
3) Noise Ninja
4) Sharpen
5) Resize
6) Mild resharpen
7) Export to jpg

Statistics
Place: 181 out of 334
Avg (all users): 5.0583
Avg (commenters): 6.3333
Avg (participants): 5.0272
Avg (non-participants): 5.0798
Views since voting: 978
Views during voting: 452
Votes: 360
Comments: 10
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 05/11/2005 12:27:31 AM
Whee, an image that got nearly uniformly positive comments, and tanked. :)

Oh well. I knew this wasn't the most compelling of my images, but I thought the wood texture and shadows, both off the lamp and off the leaves, would bring it up some.

I had an alternate shot that emphasized the green shadows, but suffered from a few minor but visible technical flaws that I expected would get it hammered even worse, so I went with the cleaner, but less interesting shot. I guess it wasn't interesting enough. I'll try to write up a post-mortem a bit faster than my last one.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/10/2005 08:27:22 PM
You should never center the main image. EXCEPT in this case! Lovely. 9
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 05/05/2005 11:20:26 PM
Nice symmetry
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/05/2005 09:06:29 PM
I think this is a nice study of light and shadow and texture. Mysterious and interesting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/05/2005 12:37:55 PM
Nice job on the lighting, and cropping, though I'm not entirely crazy about the subject.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/05/2005 11:09:03 AM
nice exposure
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/05/2005 08:29:27 AM
i think it might have looked better in potrait format, but i like the lines of the photo
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/04/2005 05:00:18 AM
nice simple image that is crisp and sharp, good luck
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/04/2005 01:54:15 AM
interesting shadow pattern..
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 05/04/2005 12:27:13 AM
simple, and elegant
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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