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Doors of Light
Doors of Light
chefsam


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Free Study XII (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Nikon D70
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
Location: Chaco Canyon New Mexico
Date: Aug 6, 2006
Aperture: 18
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/15
Galleries: Interior, Travel
Date Uploaded: Aug 29, 2006

 Chaco Canyon New Mexico
Selective Desat
Saturation of Doors
Smart Sharpen
Color Dodge
Clone out Light at second door entrance
Color Burn
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Statistics
Place: 61 out of 684
Avg (all users): 6.3386
Avg (commenters): 7.4583
Avg (participants): 6.3218
Avg (non-participants): 6.4082
Views since voting: 916
Views during voting: 321
Votes: 251
Comments: 26
Favorites: 3 (view)

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AuthorThread
 09/08/2006 11:15:32 AM
Thanks for all of your nice comments. I had fun shooting this in Chaco Canyon.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/07/2006 11:51:38 PM
Very nice composition though I would of liked to see a little more on the bottom and a little less on the top. As it is it feels a little chopped off on the bottom.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/07/2006 10:16:37 PM
I'm a sucker for doors opening to other doors. I don't think I want the foreground wall to be so dark. I want it to be more a part of the pattern, so that I feel it continues behind me as well as in front of me. 7
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/07/2006 10:01:00 PM
Cool
 09/07/2006 08:47:43 PM
Nice pattern
 09/07/2006 07:38:36 PM
real cool catch
 09/07/2006 05:23:58 PM
Great light and composition.
 09/07/2006 12:19:43 PM
Very nice composition. I like how have the opening off to the side and my eyes naturally follow it through. Hope it does well.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/07/2006 03:11:52 AM
Simple, but interesting. Good composition, and good choice of subject. Also some intriguing lighting going on.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/06/2006 08:33:58 PM
wow I went all the way in there real quick.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/04/2006 11:01:09 PM
I like the perspective in this composition as the eye 'travel's through each door to the 'vanishing point' off in the horizon. I like the golden colors that we encounter after we step out from the darkened quarters of the first door. It is the promise of light that beacons us out of the dark. I like the textures of the stone that we see in the wall because that also adds visual interest. However, even with those strengths, the composition can and needs a presentation that adds a fresh look at an old idea. I look at the composition and see an avenue that you could have taken to add even more visual interest to the image. A crop that is vertical rectangle and not a horizontal rectangle would have 'mimiced' yet another door that the viewer has to 'pass through' before we see the very first one pictured here in the foreground.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/04/2006 03:28:02 PM
Great scene
 09/04/2006 09:58:34 AM
very cool effect and lighitng inside the building in contrast with the lighting where your stadning. 9
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/03/2006 01:45:25 PM
I like this alot. I like the mystery of the doors, and the gold inside versus the gray outside. Wonderfully seen.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/03/2006 01:40:33 PM
I would have preferd a tighter crop on the door I think.
 09/03/2006 10:47:42 AM
This is really nice. The eye follows through each door.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/03/2006 09:48:42 AM
Unusual and excellent image.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/02/2006 05:01:43 PM
If I was in to hanging photos on my wall...this would be the kind that I'd look for. Nice find!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/01/2006 06:22:26 PM
Looks a bit like Aztec Ruins, or maybe Chaco (can't quite remember either as it's been a while!) Nice composition and light. The only thing I want is a bit more of the doorstep.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/01/2006 12:06:57 PM
i like it! 9!
 09/01/2006 11:33:20 AM
love it! my third 10
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/01/2006 11:20:38 AM
Well done on exposure. Nice photo. 7
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/01/2006 11:09:34 AM
very nice.
it desreves a better comment than that, but it's all I could come up with.
Sorry!
But I did vote this a 7 if that helps :-)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/01/2006 10:10:16 AM
Wonderful! Love the golds against the dark. Reminds me very much of someone pictures here that I always admire! Deb is that you?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/01/2006 06:24:17 AM
Good study in light.very nice effect.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/01/2006 12:19:29 AM
This I like quite a bit.


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