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infernal cat
infernal cat
dragonlady


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Challenge: High Contrast (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix A340 Zoom
Location: living room of my house
Date: Aug 31, 2005
Aperture: f5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/60 sec
Date Uploaded: Aug 31, 2005

My cat taken while she played with the camera cord, so I could get close enough to her face..after about thirty shots, this was my choice. I adjusted levels to extremes of light and dark, used curves to enhance the image contrast, then used selective color and channels to get the colors I wanted for most impact, then the last thing I did was clone out a small piece of the cord at bottom right and crop the image.


Post challenge: what, can't handle the contrasts?

Statistics
Place: 340 out of 343
Avg (all users): 3.5551
Avg (commenters): 4.0000
Avg (participants): 3.3624
Avg (non-participants): 3.8851
Views since voting: 629
Views during voting: 320
Votes: 236
Comments: 22
Favorites: 0


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09/13/2005 04:38:22 PM
Thanks for your comments on my photos... & I DO have a Brown Ribbon, so you can not top that with this photo... I am always leary to over process photos for fear they will be DQ'ed. I have to be honest with you, I did not rate this photo high (3) because I tend to vote higher for works that resemble photos... I know I am wrong, and try to be open minded, because this is a digital work of art (and it originated in a camera). I guess since I am a novice Photoshop user, that is my main hangup. If I had more experience and expertise in Photoshop, perhaps I would be more open minded to new and different techniques.... I am trying to improve with that aspect of my experience...
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09/12/2005 09:34:41 AM
I have to admit, it hurt my eyes to look at this: BUT I DIDN'T CARE! I wanted to do something totally different and out of the box and wildly creative and that's what I'm proud of: myself for being willing to take a chance. thank you for the three 10s, one 9, and all the 5 to 7s..thanks for looking beyond the basics and into the wild world.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/11/2005 11:59:44 PM
Crazy man.
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09/11/2005 10:24:39 PM
Your filtering treatment gives this feline a really wild look. While you definitely achieved high contrast, I'm just not real crazy on it. Makes me think of a blacklit poster.
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09/11/2005 10:24:28 PM
Whilst I rather like this, I chose to vote quite low as it's gone too far beyond "photo" for the context of DPC, to me.
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09/11/2005 10:18:37 PM
this makes my eyes bleed.. not pleasing at all
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09/10/2005 09:45:39 AM
This doesn't really work for me. It has interesting shapes and colours and it is recognisable. It also has an angry feel to it, but it seems too overprocessed to me. 7.
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09/10/2005 01:20:47 AM
This really needs Day-Glo inks and a blacklight to achieve the full effect : )
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09/09/2005 11:56:31 PM
Wow that is serious contrast, not sure about the colors but good job.
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09/09/2005 08:09:25 AM
Kind of a cool abstract. I think if you could get just a little more definition and detail, could make for a stronger presentation.
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09/07/2005 08:07:21 PM
If the purple were red I think you could have pulled something pretty cool off. I think the red and purple clash too much. Contrast yes, but not in a good way.
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09/07/2005 10:28:49 AM
IMO the solarized effect takes away from the shot, but that is a personal style issue. Love the eyes and whiskers.....especially those eyes - nice job.
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09/06/2005 11:30:29 PM
Too heavily processed, the image becomes lost in the colors. Have a hard time even seeing the cat.
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09/06/2005 04:54:37 PM
whoa, that one scary cat. A bit too much darkroom for me.
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09/06/2005 10:06:44 AM
Yikes!
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09/06/2005 08:52:15 AM
Now that's contrast!
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09/05/2005 09:51:17 PM
Easy on the MS Paint filters!
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09/05/2005 07:41:08 PM
I like the idea you had here - and I'm a big supporter of thinking outside the box - but I'm not sure this works for me. Perhaps if you changed the overall hue, because I like the crop.
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09/05/2005 06:35:26 PM
While certainly high contrast, I'm afraid that this image left me a bit cold. I actually like many highly processed images, but this one didn't work for me. Sorry.
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09/05/2005 12:09:02 PM
Mmmm . . .I think this would have been better with different colours.
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09/05/2005 10:26:15 AM
Sorry - I just don't like this... seems to be contrast for the sake of contrast.
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09/05/2005 09:10:24 AM
You have chosen red and magenta as your contrasting colours. Technically cyan contrasts with red and green contrasts with magenta.
However you have produced a striking pic in a unique style - not to my taste but an interesting take on the challenge, good luck
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