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Reality Under Glass
Reality Under Glass
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Wide Angle (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
Location: Desert Dome at the Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo
Date: Oct 15, 2005
Aperture: f/22.0
ISO: 800
Shutter: 180
Galleries: Architecture, Panoramic
Date Uploaded: Oct 16, 2005

 I wasn't planning on entering anything in this challenge, but as I was reviewing shots I took at the zoo I thought that it would at least be interesting to get some DPC feedback on this. I'm trying to stop playing it safe with my challenge entries (which wasn't producing high marks anyway); we'll see how this one fairs.

I had to save this at 90% quality in order to meet the file size restriction. Because of this compression the reflections of the sun in the concave triangles of glass got a lot grainer than I would have liked. The dark area in the top right corner of the image is due to the opaque cap at the top of the dome. I'd rather not have that area of dead space in the image, but I didn't want to crop out the triangles below it, and when I rotated the image to push it off the screen the pattern of lines became considerably less interesting. I also played around with various blur effects, but all of the interesting renditions came too close to the "digital art" line.

Taken at the Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo's Desert Dome at around 18:00. Shot at 24mm (which is the widest angle that any of my lenses is capable of).

Editing steps:
levels
increase saturation
cloned out crud on the sensor
scale image
USM

Statistics
Place: 168 out of 253
Avg (all users): 5.2952
Avg (commenters): 6.2500
Avg (participants): 5.0609
Avg (non-participants): 5.5357
Views since voting: 794
Views during voting: 380
Votes: 227
Comments: 6
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/23/2005 11:53:54 AM
Very cool structure. I like light reflections. For me, I would have cropped out that element in the upper right as I find it a bit distracting. The tree adds interest for me and without it, I think it would have been nice, but boring. Good eye.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/22/2005 11:25:35 PM
very nice. I don't really understrand what I am looking at. why is that tree there?
10/22/2005 06:18:27 PM
Good job..!!
 10/22/2005 05:03:02 PM
interesting shot, i like the metallic tones
 10/17/2005 08:16:01 PM
Awesome photo. The best thing about it is that it's somewhat difficult to tell if you're inside or outside, when you really look at it...
 10/17/2005 08:12:03 AM
Cool. I like the tree "growing" out of it. Beautiful blue tones. The grid makes for interesting eye candy.


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