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lil_mo


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Challenge: Soft Focus II (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Kodak DX7590
Location: Denver, Colorado
Date: Aug 19, 2006
Aperture: f4.0
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/800
Galleries: Cityscape, Emotive
Date Uploaded: Aug 21, 2006

Took this shot from the car with plastic wrap over lense. Was still playing with the # of plastic layers to acheive a nice softer-but-not-too soft appearance.

PP: rotate, crop, levels, NI, gaussian, resize, save for web.

Post-Challenge:
Woohoo! someone picked this as a favorite! Thank you commenters:)

predictions: not a clue. I think it's a nice photograph and it it gives me the warm fuzzies, but still not sure how voting will go, hopefully more than 4? Mostly I just hope to get some good comments with improvement suggestions. Right now the only thing I'm not so fond of is the spot of blown-out sunlight. If this was an advanced editing challenge, I would have liked to minimize that somehow.

Statistics
Place: 199 out of 252
Avg (all users): 4.6622
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 4.3871
Avg (non-participants): 4.7669
Views since voting: 651
Views during voting: 320
Votes: 225
Comments: 9
Favorites: 1 (view)


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/29/2006 12:30:25 AM
A good photo needs to have something of interest in it. There really isn't anything here to see...
TC
08/28/2006 01:39:35 AM
Soft focus does not mean out of focus. Dark photo
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/25/2006 10:44:18 PM
I like this. Moody and dramatic and documentary.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/25/2006 09:30:42 PM
very unique and interesting photo
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/24/2006 07:02:57 PM
My interpretation of Soft Focus is obviously different to yours as I dont feel this has any soft qualities at all and may just be a little out of focus (MHO)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/24/2006 04:10:50 AM
as a piece of photographic art, i like this a lot. it is a great shot of america, and has an almighty sense of dated realness in a 1970's polaroid kind of way... whether or not it's good for this particular challenge, i am not entirely sure. in some respects, the focus seems either a bit too sharp (the lamp posts, for example), or where it doesn't, seems too out of focus to be considered soft (traffic lights and trees). but i like it! i like the splashes of gold on the left, the shiny areas on the tarmac, the droplets on the glass. so much character, so much to look at. so 7 overall.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/23/2006 02:32:00 PM
Dramatic in a subtle understated way. Romantic as well. 9.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/23/2006 11:53:42 AM
love the colours, looks great in thumb too.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/23/2006 11:33:19 AM
...hope this was taken from the passenger seat.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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