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Challenge: Something Old II (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ20
Location: Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England
Date: Apr 14, 2006
Aperture: f8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/320
Galleries: Landscape, History
Date Uploaded: Apr 18, 2006
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This is an attempt to capture the underlying moodiness of Stonehenge. In my minds eye I had a kind of 19th Century sepia postcard feel, emphasising the bleakness of the plain but also the mysteriousness of the henge itself.
Original shot in colour, light cloning to get rid of the edge of a car and the head of a human, conversion to B&W through channels, duplicate layer plus overlay to increase contrast, some replace colour in the clouds to emphasise the edges, shadow/highlight to get a moodier balance, re-size for DPC, USM plus use of a sepia filter (@ 70%) to add to "oldness", conversion to JPEG for submission. |
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04/27/2006 11:10:10 AM |
Hi Carl, overall well done. I too see the "noise, graininess, artifacting" in the clouds, especially the left side of the photo. So that probably brought your score down a bit. Have not a clue how anyone could vote it under 4 though!! Wow, really do not understand voters, rules "suggest" strongly vote on fitting the challenge FIRST, then technicals. Oh well, still a good image!!
Jacque |
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04/26/2006 08:54:57 PM |
| Nice shot, Carl! While the color version is good, I do prefer the way you did this up with the sepia. I espcially like the bird - adds a bit of life to a very old piece of history. Well done! |
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04/25/2006 04:42:16 AM |
| Very old indeed. Sky is a bit grainy, would love to have seen the formation in the bottom third. Nice in sepia. |
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04/23/2006 01:08:55 PM |
| B & W photography it's not just discarding colours. Its also keeping the colour dependencies in the gray scale. This is even more difficult to make it right than colour. Because we see in colour and B&W well requieres a lot of thought. It's not a good technical b&w but the exposure seems right -ish and the object is nice so it's an 8 |
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04/22/2006 05:05:41 AM |
| The bird helps a lot. There's a good sky too. The problem with Stoonehenge, in the context of this challenge, is that we know it's old but we can't really see it. You've done well though, with the texture in the stones. |
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04/21/2006 06:01:31 PM |
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04/20/2006 09:52:53 PM |
i remeber playing hide and seek on stonehenge when a small child. i loved it. it was a regular outing for us.
i like this image. is it possible to get closer to the stones now? that would have been even more dramatic. the bird is a good thing. |
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04/20/2006 09:48:44 PM |
| Great shot. Only suggestion is that it might be a little better if it were a shade darker. It strikes me as slightly over exposed. |
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04/19/2006 04:47:08 PM |
| Looks like you've processed quite hard to make the most of the sky. |
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04/19/2006 04:29:13 PM |
| i wish this had more contrast, it seems a bit flat |
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04/19/2006 04:28:06 PM |
| Stonehenge is cool. Would have liked to see a color version of this though, and the horizon looks not quite straight. |
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