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Moonlight Pastorale
Moonlight Pastorale
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Challenge: Best of 2006 (Advanced Editing V*)
Collection: landscapes
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: nj
Date: Aug 11, 2006
Date Uploaded: Jan 11, 2007

sheesh, relax ;-)

it's supposed to be surreal.

Statistics
Place: 676 out of 712
Avg (all users): 4.7051
Avg (commenters): 4.6087
Avg (participants): 4.5926
Avg (non-participants): 5.0581
Views since voting: 879
Views during voting: 502
Votes: 356
Comments: 29
Favorites: 2 (view)


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01/29/2007 12:14:02 AM
Uh Oh, pop art. Na, this is good stuff. It's hard to wrap my brain around sometimes, but I like the ideas here. The accents of color, the boldness of yellow and the subdued green really work well. Compositional it is near perfect, sure there is the cut off cow, but I realize that is the intent. There is a difference between missing the composition because of "mistakes" and missing the composition because of "intent". I see alot of intent here. The only compostion "mistake" I see here is the flower covering the house.

This is one of those photos that is more than just the exposure, lighting, composition. People who do not understand that I think are just missing out on the point. Photography doesn't have to be all mechnical. You have a special photo here. It's purposeful without being just a gimmick. A wonderful treat to see. Simply surreal.
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01/26/2007 02:16:12 PM
I really like this. I knew it would be too out there for DPC voters, but even as I voted, gave you a mental congrats for guts to enter it. I have this insane urge to play around with this photo, as I'd love to see it without the vertical red streaks directly to left of silo...anyway, cool stuff, keep on shooting!
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01/26/2007 01:11:12 PM
:))) hehe:) it IS surreal! I love it, that half of the cow is awesome. excellent idea, really!
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01/26/2007 01:14:02 AM
LOL. Surreal, it is. Congrats on relaxing yourself and just taking it to the limit. :)
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01/26/2007 01:10:28 AM
I love the processing...it looks like a bomb went off. Nice job!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/25/2007 04:44:44 AM
Not a fan of the processing here.
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01/24/2007 10:18:27 PM
sorry, but this just doesn't work for me.
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01/24/2007 11:05:32 AM
Weird, but I like it.
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01/23/2007 06:32:03 PM
Something appears to have happened in the post-processing here that took all the textures and details out of a stunning sky, and also appears that too strong of an application of the shadow/highlight tool or similar, was used, rendering this odd in it's final presentation.
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01/23/2007 03:25:48 AM
:) nice accid pastorale!
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01/22/2007 11:45:05 PM
I like the interesting composition, but the "post processing" (I'm assuming it's due to how you processed it) doesn't do a lot for me. The colors seem "edgy" to me and look unnatural.
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01/22/2007 08:56:39 PM
Way overprocessed IMHO. It feels quite harsh because of it.
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01/22/2007 11:14:38 AM
this seems oo busy imho.
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01/18/2007 12:53:40 PM
Colors look a little funky, I'm guessing intentionally... The 1/2 a cow is funny though, i like it
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01/17/2007 06:19:11 AM
interesting concept , good processing
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01/16/2007 11:02:47 PM
I like the processing of this pne...
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01/16/2007 10:28:23 PM
Overprossesed for my taste. Why just the rear of the cow?
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01/16/2007 09:31:50 PM
I like what the processing did to everything but the sky. Nice job though.
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01/15/2007 03:37:16 PM
The theme of unreal suffuses the image. The colors, the light, the juxtiposition of the elements (the BACK end of a cow?) and the post processing all act to unsettle the viewer. The sky is particularly odd - some weird storm a-brewin' - all very perplexing, but also entrancing. One asks, what? why? and looks at the picture again... and again.
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01/14/2007 05:10:18 PM
lol. Must add to favs.
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01/13/2007 11:13:16 PM
Looks much more like a painting then a photograph
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01/13/2007 02:24:01 PM
You went way overboard on the processing here. This has been pushed well past the believable limits of an HDR-style photo. 2.
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01/13/2007 09:35:59 AM
too over processed
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01/12/2007 10:02:29 PM
Tonight on Tales From the Dark Side...
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01/12/2007 09:29:28 PM
For me this whole image is overprocessed. I can see editing marks around the cow and I get an overall unreal feel from this image (just my humble opinion)
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01/12/2007 06:26:56 PM
There seems to be a bit of discontinuity in the gamut.
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01/12/2007 09:27:51 AM
Dearin posprocessing. i like it. -7
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01/12/2007 01:31:11 AM
Waaaaayyyyy over processed
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01/12/2007 12:20:55 AM
a rather odd image, good luck with it.
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