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Challenge: Street Photography (Advanced Editing V)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Berkeley, California, USA
Date: Feb 17, 2007
Aperture: 4.0
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Emotive, Political
Date Uploaded: Feb 17, 2007

 Street mural on Telegraph Avenue, one of the world's better-known streets. A photograph "of the moment" as I was in a momentarily-stopped bus across a wide sidewalk, shooting through the window, and got this composition -- no cropping involved.

Title ending inspired by the lines from ...

Revolution 1 (Lennon/McCartney)

You say you want a revolution
Well you know
we all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know you can count me out (in)*
Don't you know it's gonna be alright
Alright Alright ...

*In the reprise of Verse 1 John adds a low-key word "in" after the more normally-voiced word "out" as was sung the first time.

-RGB Curve
-Resize for DPC
-USM at 16%/64 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH = 5
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 7/10 = 148kb

Statistics
Place: 247 out of 288
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Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 4.7727
Avg (non-participants): 5.1667
Views since voting: 1100
Views during voting: 384
Votes: 218
Comments: 7
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 03/03/2007 04:28:40 PM
Greetings from the CC club.

I really like the vibrancy of this image. It is very reminiscent of that late 60's era.

Technically. Well, don't really feel qualified to comment much here as I'm no expert. To me the colours look great, though further playing round in the red/green/blue channels in curves does add a little extra depth/punch. I think I'd like you to have pulled back and included a little of the background surrounds as the fence going almost to the top gives me a claustrophobic feel (though that could well have been the effect you were trying for) I do agree with a couple of the commenters who mentioned that a human element in the shot would have made a difference......something like a blurred motion figure running through (though controlling the situation when you're sitting on a bus is not possible).

I think one of the things that continually delights me is the originality of your work. You are never afraid to try something new. You are an inspiration.

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/25/2007 12:53:56 PM
Great idea, great title. I hope your shot is not effected by the "adding other artwork" rule. Good luck.
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 02/21/2007 06:20:40 PM
one of my favorites so far due to color!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/21/2007 12:04:42 PM
Pretty.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/19/2007 11:16:26 AM
IMHO, this isn't really 'street photography' ...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/19/2007 10:17:12 AM
I think this is missing the human element necessary to make street photography work. The colors are awesome but there needs to be somebody walking past, to illustrate the hustle and bustle of street life.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/19/2007 06:28:26 AM
I like the idea and the colors are wonderful but part of me wants to see people in a street photograph. Just my feeling.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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