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The Study of Astrology
The Study of Astrology
JunieMoon


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: High Contrast (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Olympus D-550Z
Location: Ellington, CT.
Date: Aug 30, 2005
Aperture: f 2.9
ISO: 60
Shutter: 1/200th
Galleries: Architecture, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Aug 30, 2005

Exposure Compensated -0.5 steps. Set the camera to high contrast, normal sharpness. Deactivated flash. Used spot metering. Post processing - Changed photo to black and white and adjusted the green to darkest, red to midtone, and blue to lightest. Dodged and burned in the sky, dodged the detail of the zodiac relief patterns and sharpened them as high as I could. Adjusted contrast further to become even darker and lighter. Spot edited the building lines to reduce noise and increast darks. Dodged detail around the sculpture over in lower right to separate it from the blackness of the window behind it.

Statistics
Place: 200 out of 343
Avg (all users): 5.2684
Avg (commenters): 5.5714
Avg (participants): 5.1042
Avg (non-participants): 5.5402
Views since voting: 863
Views during voting: 306
Votes: 231
Comments: 9
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/11/2005 07:11:45 PM
Good contrast areas, but busy photo with the round lines of the sculpture against the lines of the building itself - at least to me.
09/11/2005 12:33:43 PM
Good contrast, but a bit too much detail for my taste. Maybe just the sphere shot against the sky would have yielded a clearer, easier to digest, image?
09/10/2005 01:42:51 AM
Very awesome shot, the contrast is wonderful.
09/08/2005 10:26:32 AM
I like the clouds in this shot. It seems like a very inviting place. God job.
09/08/2005 01:49:08 AM
I feel like this shot was in a previous challenge...6
09/07/2005 08:34:12 PM
If you could have blurred the background to make the subject stand out more it would have helped a lot.
09/05/2005 12:02:46 PM
Really like how the astrological signs almost glow on the sculpture. Nice contrasting tones.
09/05/2005 10:19:45 AM
nice contrast. perhaps you could have found an angle that included the full library name or removed it all together. Your zodiac signs appear way, way over-sharpened to me. I think a nice overall "sharpen edges" in photoshop would have sufficed
09/05/2005 12:47:38 AM
Those twigs in the forground are rather distracting. Nice use of contrast though in the tones. The composition could do with a bit of a re-vamp, getting verticals parallel and the foreground and background elements are confusing right now. Maybe a lower point of view would have enhanced it?


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