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Lone Tree on the Hill
Lone Tree on the Hill
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: A Single Tree (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Sigma 18-125mm f/3.5-5.6 DC for Canon
Location: St-Basile
Date: Sep 7, 2006
Aperture: 8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Landscape, Nature
Date Uploaded: Sep 10, 2006

 Would've loved to have a different sky! Seems there's always a cyan sky lately. Would've preferred a dark blue or better yet menacing clouds. No such luck.
Usual editing... Crop, levels, increase saturation, photo filtered the sky at #80, 75%. Reajusted the colors a bit, then resized, USM x 2, NI and saved for web.
IMG_3777

Statistics
Place: 215 out of 251
Avg (all users): 4.5902
Avg (commenters): 4.3333
Avg (participants): 4.4842
Avg (non-participants): 4.6818
Views since voting: 857
Views during voting: 266
Votes: 205
Comments: 17
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 09/24/2006 03:53:07 PM
Critique Club Review:

Colors look a little over saturated to me. It could work as a painterly effect, except for the sky. As you've already noted, the sky is big, and empty. Unfortunately clouds to not appear on command.

I wonder what this would have looked like at sunrise or sunset. With the current lighting, it looks a bit flat.

Since the sky was not your friend this day, I would recommend less of it. A tighter crop, and closer in to emphasize the tree might have helped. I would suggest leaving the gate in, and cropping before the fence dissapears. As is, the line of the fence leads the eye down the hill and away from the subject.

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/17/2006 09:21:21 PM
The composition is interesting, but the strange colors are somewhat unappealing to me. 5
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 09/16/2006 02:05:10 PM
like my image, with such sparse details it is easy to go overboard on the USM and get haloing at the skyline. A bit of dodging in the sky would have lent more interest to the pure tone of the sky.
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 09/16/2006 08:47:30 AM
saturation is funky
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 09/14/2006 06:08:21 PM
Whoa! That's some pretty hard contrast you got going on there :) I like the comp though.
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 09/14/2006 02:16:56 PM
the composition is intereseting, but I find the color harsh an unappealing and the sharpening too strong.
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 09/13/2006 11:57:37 AM
this looks over sharpened and theres some haloing on the tree. nice simple scene. while looking at the lines, I notice that the hill is falling towards the viewer, but the fence is going away. to me the scene looks like it should be levelled but I think it's only because of those crossing lines.
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 09/13/2006 07:47:09 AM
looks oversharpened with the haloing around the tree and posts
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 09/13/2006 02:56:37 AM
not much happening here...the blue is a bit overpowering
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 09/12/2006 07:42:58 PM
very m
 09/12/2006 07:12:23 PM
This is a nice shot. I like the downward slope, but I think there is a little too much saturation.
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 09/12/2006 05:54:29 PM
Oversharpened is the biggest problem with this photo. Second to that is the mass of unappealing sky sominating the photo. I do like the fence posts or whatever they are lining the ridge. I think this might have worked quite a bit better if either shot closer to the tree or cropped so that the tree is muc larger and the sky is much less prominent. Something is wrong with the colors here as well. The composition itself, while as unoriginal as the other photos exactly like this one in the challenge, is technically correct so your eye is working for you in that regard. Hope these comments are helpful.
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 09/11/2006 10:03:38 PM
lotta red appears in this image on my monitor (however I'm on laptop). I like the composition. just not sure about the flat pale turquoise of sorts sky, moss green ground with red (think might be dead brown grass?) gl in challenge :-)
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 09/11/2006 04:38:18 PM
not very appealing editing, oversharpened and strange colours. if this is straight from camera, check your settings.
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 09/11/2006 12:36:34 PM
I like the composition. The isolation of the tree along the fence line is pleasing. The reds and yellows seem to be oversaturated, however.
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 09/11/2006 12:10:58 PM
Sometimes the sky does not cooperate. I think a little deeper blue would have helped. But then again, what do I know ;-) It has a feeling of paucity about the photo.
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 09/11/2006 10:11:43 AM
It does meet the challenge and the concept is good but it seems over saturated.
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