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Challenge: Halloween (Classic Editing*)
Collection: Scenic
Camera: Sony DSC-F707
Location: Canton, NC
Date: Oct 31, 2003
Aperture: na
ISO: 100
Shutter: na
Galleries: Sky, Landscape
Date Uploaded: Oct 31, 2003

 Hahha. Didn't even intend to enter this challenge, and have already unsubmitted and resubmitted at least once.

We have very few nice sunset around here, for whatever reason, so when I saw this one, I drove down a side road, lined it up and shot a few.

Cropped, rotated about 2 degrees (it looked level when I shot it), saturated a touch, and cloned out the church's porch light and a stree light or something.

Statistics
Place: 43 out of 76
Avg (all users): 5.2109
Avg (commenters): 5.7500
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Avg (non-participants): 5.4235
Views since voting: 1274
Votes: 147
Comments: 10
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AuthorThread
 11/08/2003 12:34:43 AM
Thanks for the comments.

About the focus -- actually the shot is fairly much in focus, on the original. In Paint Shop Pro, at "1", the file size was like 158, so I bumped it one and it came down to under 150. However, it blurred when I looked at it after submitting -- thus the multiple submissions. A few minutes after the deadline, I realized, I probably could have just trimmed a few pixels off of each side, and wouldn't have had to compress it at all.
DUH!
 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/05/2003 06:41:39 PM
May be I'm missing something, but for me, the content doesn't quite meet the challenge subject. This could be any night.

That said, the balance is nice and the eerie blue beneath red in the sky is otherworldly. I also like the fact that the foreground is out of focus to an extent. The combination of the focus and the feeling that the image is out of balance slightly (feels heavier on the right) gives me a slightly off center -- have to tilt my head to make the world seem right.. feeling.

Good work.
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 11/05/2003 04:36:32 PM
The red sky is good, reminds me of blood red skies you seen in horror movies. Unfortunately, probably due to the low light, the silhouettes are blurry and as such the overal effect is somewhat lost. It still remains a spooky quality to it.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/02/2003 12:45:05 AM
What a red sky! Kinda spooky! The clarity or sharpness is really wanting in this shot, just too fuzzy for my personal taste but the balance between the ground and sky is close to perfect for me. A 5 to start
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/01/2003 07:41:32 PM
8.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/01/2003 01:57:02 PM
NICE sky! (Are my eyes going out or is nothing in focus?)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/01/2003 12:55:05 PM
I love the color of the sky here
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/01/2003 12:31:17 PM
Awesome lighting.
11/01/2003 11:46:13 AM
Great sky colors. I like the lighting and shadow effect. You might want to sharpen in photoshop it looks a little out of focus. 5.
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 11/01/2003 08:05:39 AM
cool sky ...wish it was a little sharper
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