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Room with a View
Room with a View
jerseyjim


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Challenge: Empty Room (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Nikon D50
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 ED
Location: South Mountain State Park - Phoenix ,AZ
Date: Jun 1, 2006
Aperture: f 6.3
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/160 sec
Galleries: Landscape, Rural
Date Uploaded: Jun 1, 2006

 As I walked into this \"Room\" atop South Mountain Park outside Phoenix, I was struck by the view of the valley below. The \"window\" became the thing in the room that I photographed.
Asjustments to contrast and brightness in the RAW file then adjustments to highlights and shadows in PS Elements 4. Cloned out the top of a plastic water bottle in the bottom left hand corner (left by a previous visitor).

Statistics
Place: 105 out of 114
Avg (all users): 4.4398
Avg (commenters): 3.9000
Avg (participants): 3.9014
Avg (non-participants): 4.6647
Views since voting: 945
Views during voting: 418
Votes: 241
Comments: 26
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 06/12/2006 04:53:58 PM
Ahhhhh. . . this is like the photo I commented on today thinking it was a framing challenge outtake. It really is a beautiful photo, but I guess the dnmc police got you for not having a clear empty room with an object in it they could see and touch. I really love it!

In the framing challenge, I bet it would have scored muuuuuuuuch better!
 06/12/2006 04:16:05 AM
Hey there from the Critique Club

Camera Work/Technical: Very, very nice. Looking through your past challenges, I think that this is one of your nicest images. Your focus is spot on and your depth of field works very well to show the distance of the capture. Make sure that you always try to use the full size parameters that DPC offers. Voters like larger images.

Lighting: You did a really nice job with harsh lighting conditions. The distant sky is nicely exposed and you still maintained details in the walls of the foreground,

Composition/Content: The walls, and the detail capture withing, serve the image very well to pull the viewer into the distant horizon. I also think that the centered composition works very well for framing the distant mountains and horizon.

My Opinion: You have one of your best images to date here, but it missed the challenge. Voters will hammer you if they feel that you didn't meet the challenge. Even with that, there is no way that this is a sub-5 scoring image. I think that it would make a fine wall hanger.

Eric
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/11/2006 11:51:39 PM
A nice shot but think it would've worked better for the Framing II challenge.
 06/11/2006 11:01:42 PM
Too bad this picture was not entered for the Framing contest instead! Because the picture is really nice, and fits that challenge perfectly. Here, I fail to find a thing in the room, although I understand the "thing" is the view itself.
 06/11/2006 10:59:27 PM
I can't see anything that you brought into this room. It looks like it was taken in a tower of a castle, what is the location?
 06/10/2006 05:52:24 PM
What did you bring into this room with your camera? Take one thing and your camera into an empty room and photograph it.
dnmc
 06/10/2006 10:45:51 AM
would be nice for framed
 06/09/2006 03:00:04 PM
the coloration is awesome! its so.........flowy.
 06/09/2006 08:14:22 AM
Great handling of the different lighting aspects.
 06/08/2006 07:05:48 AM
The thing photographed?
 06/07/2006 06:01:28 PM
Bordeline for meetig the challenge I'd say, but a nice image.
 06/07/2006 10:36:56 AM
I love this shot
 06/06/2006 09:00:32 PM
I do not feel the emptiness of the room because such a small part of it is shown.
 06/06/2006 07:50:46 PM
I'm not sure what one thing you brought into the room.
 06/06/2006 02:10:11 PM
Nicely done, this just needs a bit quicker shutter speed to avoid the extreme brightness from the sky.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/06/2006 01:54:23 PM
This finally was empty as far as on can see.
 06/06/2006 12:49:36 PM
good frame but cannot see much of the room
 06/06/2006 07:01:27 AM
nice idea, wrong challenge...
 06/06/2006 05:51:31 AM
umm, what ?
 06/05/2006 11:09:52 PM
I don't get a sense of an empty room. This is a good 'frame' however.
 06/05/2006 08:45:26 PM
the view is o/exposed really need tocut the exposure on this 3
 06/05/2006 07:05:18 PM
I'm missing the "thing", i guess. It is a nice view, however.
 06/05/2006 04:06:54 PM
A nice view,but do you beleive it fits the challenge details...
 06/05/2006 02:03:04 PM
Where is the object.
 06/05/2006 01:46:03 AM
Where is the one thing .. the empty room .. oh and a view is not really a thing :)
 06/05/2006 12:19:09 AM
where is the object you brought INTO the room?


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