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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Stationary (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Location: Havre de Grace, MD
Date: Jul 1, 2006
Aperture: f8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 4 seconds
Galleries: Landscape, Seascapes
Date Uploaded: Jul 1, 2006

 How many people will correctly guess that this is mine? This is my favorite vantage point.

Shot at 9:13pm, about 45 minutes after sunset.

Is PS CS2:
auto levels
rotate
crop
shadow/highlight (30,20,30,30,20,30)
Neat Image
USM (85,1,4)

And yes, the horizon is straight!

This is my entry in the 2006 county fair in the "Landscape with structures" category. It finished first in the category and was the Champion color photo at the county fair.

I have a better version that will be entered in the state fair, but I didn't have time to get it printed before the county fair. Look in my "Lighthouses" folder of my portfolio.


Statistics
Place: 15 out of 284
Avg (all users): 6.3288
Avg (commenters): 7.3846
Avg (participants): 6.0610
Avg (non-participants): 6.4857
Views since voting: 1974
Views during voting: 323
Votes: 222
Comments: 19
Favorites: 3 (view)

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 07/17/2006 10:51:30 PM
Ther are many that love blue toned images and this one should prove highly appealing. Congratulations on your top 20 finish.
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 07/14/2006 05:44:14 PM
Congratulations on your top 20 finish. Great shot!
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 07/13/2006 12:49:21 PM
Here a few suggestions as per your forum post. Firstly, I really like richness, sharpness and tonal depth, the blacks are really dark without feeling like there is information lost.
Compositionally, it seems like you are going for rule of thirds by orienting the lighthouse on a third and having slightly more sky than water. In both cases, it feels like you are slightly more centered than on a third. These are only guidelines of course, but I may have tried to push the light house a bit to the right and add a little more sky in relation to the water. This seems impossible to do with a crop considering that the reflection of the trees would feel crowded if you cropped up from the bottom and the lights on the right would feel crammed as well if you cropped in. There is also something that happens on bad monitors when you have a gradient of rich blues (or any similar color.) I've noticed that the image can have these bands where the color jumps. I always like to test the image on a couple different screens because trolls with bad monitors will nail you for something like that. I've actually looked at all my top scoring photos and have noticed that they perform well on a variety of monitors. This sort of depresses me because I don't want photography to be about monitors and stupid stuff like that, but it may be what accounted for your 3 2s and 7 3s. Great shot, I'm looking forward to your future submissions.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/11/2006 10:20:48 PM
breathtaking image here.....Just wonderful.....A "10" from me.....
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 07/11/2006 03:03:29 PM
Very nice!
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 07/10/2006 05:41:55 PM
Love the BLUE.
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 07/09/2006 05:40:18 PM
Your horizon is slightly skew.
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 07/08/2006 10:20:03 PM
gorgeous!
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 07/08/2006 09:58:37 PM
Great tones and masterful comp.
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 07/08/2006 08:54:11 PM
nice job...maybe a little too much blue for me
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 07/07/2006 10:27:52 PM
LOVE the blues in this. Beautiful still waters. A 10!
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 07/06/2006 10:29:54 PM
Quite literally a mirror surface...the blueness of all this is very cool. Great job!
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 07/06/2006 07:33:38 PM
very nice tone of blue, good composition.
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 07/06/2006 06:31:12 AM
Is this Ocracoke light?-7-
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 07/05/2006 09:07:36 PM
Very nice tone! I like it very much
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 07/05/2006 07:25:02 PM
just love the color very nice
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 07/05/2006 09:30:06 AM
Wow. Incredible colour. A great example of how empty space can balance heavy detail within a composition. The left of the frame is empty enough to draw the eye away from the trees and lighthouse and out onto the dock.
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 07/05/2006 04:51:19 AM
Nice night scene and very still,
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 07/05/2006 01:32:59 AM
like the blue!! 10
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