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All Roads Lead to Nowhere
All Roads Lead to Nowhere
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Dead End (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
Location: Nowhere (a few miles North of Crescent, IA)
Date: Nov 6, 2005
Aperture: f/9.5
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/1000
Galleries: Rural
Date Uploaded: Nov 6, 2005

 This isn't a particularly creative entry, but I spent far too long editing it to not submit it. I'm hoping for a score in the upper 5s. I did a lot more editing with layers than I have for any of my other challenge entries, and I'm afraid that it shows a bit too much (there has to be an easier way of masking off the border between the trees and the sky than repeatedly using the magic wand to add to the selection). This image is a reasonable approximation of what I had envisioned; if I had the time to fool with it I'd like to have done some selective burning in the sky and in the trees to add some additional contrast. I also would have liked to add some image grain, but none of the noise filters that I tried produced the look I wanted.

Editing steps:
Levels
Saturation
Burn layer masked for the sky
Burn layer masked for the foreground
Resize
USM

Statistics
Place: 92 out of 173
Avg (all users): 5.3447
Avg (commenters): 5.5000
Avg (participants): 5.0693
Avg (non-participants): 5.6095
Views since voting: 1029
Views during voting: 333
Votes: 206
Comments: 5
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/13/2005 08:49:43 PM
Seeing the road off to the left. I'd have positioned the camera so the sign on the right wasn't in the frame. It doesn't add to your message here. I also feel that the sky treatment may be a little too strong.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/12/2005 06:51:56 AM
I might be in the minority, but I think the colors are a little overworked. The sky doesn't look real. The street sign is sweet though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/11/2005 09:39:47 PM
I like this one
 11/10/2005 07:53:27 PM
I love the angles in this shot
 11/08/2005 11:23:19 PM
Something wierd at the tree/skyline
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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