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Esopus lighthouse
Esopus lighthouse
Dave Gordon


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Free Study XII (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Konica Minolta Maxxum 5D
Lens: Vivitar MF 135mm f/2.8
Location: Esopus, NY
Date: Aug 21, 2006
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/999
Galleries: Landscape, Water
Date Uploaded: Aug 23, 2006

The lighthouse in the Hudson River is picturesque, but as I was taking photographs of it I saw the sailboat upriver. I waited about 15 minutes for it to reach the lighthouse.
Adjusted curves, cropped, cloned out a few gaps in the trees and applied USM.

Statistics
Place: 639 out of 684
Avg (all users): 4.5280
Avg (commenters): 4.2857
Avg (participants): 4.4822
Avg (non-participants): 4.6981
Views since voting: 999
Views during voting: 320
Votes: 250
Comments: 15
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/07/2006 08:23:50 PM
Nice shot.
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09/07/2006 09:24:11 AM
Good capture but needs to be sharper. It's a good scene.
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09/05/2006 03:03:22 AM
The sailboat really adds to this shot as does the green floating life in the foreground. Overall seems to be lacking sharpness and may be due to it be a small section of a much larger image?
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09/05/2006 12:22:38 AM
could have been a little sharper!!! but still interesting 6
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09/04/2006 11:42:01 AM
just doesn't seem very sharp to me.
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09/03/2006 07:10:07 PM
-Seems out of focus
-Beautiful setting
-Score: 5
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09/03/2006 04:41:31 PM
The picture does not look sharp on my monitor and the colours look a bit off. I also think getting in closer would make for a better picture. The house is placed fine for the composition, but there isn't anything to draw the eye to it. As it is the lighthouse and the boat competes for attention.
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09/02/2006 11:17:58 AM
very interesting lighthouse. not the usually tall striped kind but too OOF for me.
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09/02/2006 11:16:00 AM
nice scene wish the photo was cropped tighter losing the telephone pole on the left and was sharper in focus.
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09/02/2006 09:26:01 AM
Composition: 3 - Its very centered and uninteresting to me, but you did follow near the rule of thirds with the horizon placement.
Technical: 2 - The whites are overexposed and there are halos around things from poor sharpening. If you used USM, try using a smaller radius, 0.3 or 0.4 for this sized photo.
Creativity: 3 - This straight on shot could be improved by experimenting with more dramatic angles.
Appeal: 1 - Sorry, this doesnt hold my interest at all, with its dull colours, poor processing, and uninteresting subjects.

Overall Calculated Average Score: 2
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09/01/2006 07:42:47 PM
Neat. My eyeballs would like to get closer to it.
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09/01/2006 03:18:18 PM
Out of focus. Looks like it was cropped from a bigger image.
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09/01/2006 12:46:29 PM
Photo looks out of focus and photo doesn't need the sea-weed at bottom . 4
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09/01/2006 10:45:50 AM
The blur is a bit distracting, would have liked to see a sharper focus for more details of the boat and light house
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09/01/2006 06:54:45 AM
a nice image, but the poor resolution quality will bring your score down. you either need to raise the resolution in your camera, or save differently for hte web.
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