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Puhoi Town Library
Puhoi Town Library
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Challenge: Street Photography (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II
Location: Puhoi, New Zealand
Date: Feb 18, 2007
Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/800 second
Galleries: Architecture
Date Uploaded: Feb 17, 2007

 This isn't really Street Photography. This is my wife Terri posing outside the library in our local village. I was trying get to get a look of someone waiting for the library to open. Looking back I should have pinned a sign up saying "closed" or "back in 5 mins" or something.

The villiage of Puhoi has it's own website here (but it's not the best looking site in the world!) This is a working library but it's never been open when I've been around so I guess it opens for a couple of hours during the weekdays and that's it! The building itself is very old and not much bigger than a single car garage.

Editing Steps:
Convert from RAW
* Shadow Contrast +16
* Saturation +39
Auto Levels
Brightness -7
Contrast +20
Saturation +23
Slight "s" curve
Saturation
* Reds -40
Selective Saturation on Lavender plant
* Magentas +74
* Blues +67
Duplicate background layer
* Shadow/Hilight
* Opacity 24%
Flatten
Resize
USM
Contrast +8
Save for web

Statistics
Place: 192 out of 288
Avg (all users): 5.3406
Avg (commenters): 7.2857
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Avg (non-participants): 5.5630
Views since voting: 980
Views during voting: 356
Votes: 229
Comments: 12
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AuthorThread
 03/02/2007 11:14:38 AM
CRITIQUE CLUB CRITIQUE
by karmat

Compositionally, I like the shot and think it has a balanced, stable feeling to it. The perspective of the building makes it have a surreal feeling to it, and that just kind of adds to the feeling of the shot, I think. To see a library that small, and you expect that it should be much larger, so it all seems a bit unreal. The only thing I would suggest is to move your model to the other side of the door frame. That would get her out of the almost exact center of the shot.

Technically, I like the colors, focus, and exposure. The sky is a bit "too much" and is almost too bright to feel real, but it is still pretty.

Overall, it is an interesting shot, and I suspect that it wasn't quite "streety" enough for most people.

Feel free to contact me if I need to further explain or clarify anything.

karmat

  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/28/2007 05:43:22 PM
THIS is a library?! But its soo tiny! Nice colours and detail :o)

Thanks for your comment on my love shot, really appreciate it :o)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/26/2007 03:26:00 PM
Maybe not technically "street" but very clever. No signs necessary. Would be an interesting experience to get a look inside. Great find!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/24/2007 10:01:23 AM
cool!! makes me smile...i love it!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/24/2007 09:50:03 AM
:) yeah, this is a big library. nice capture!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/23/2007 11:48:51 AM
Now that's the biggest library I have evah seen :) Gotta be in Godzone!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/23/2007 02:57:08 AM
nice colors of skay and this has a nice fresh feel to it. Great capture
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/23/2007 12:55:45 AM
I like this photo~
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/19/2007 11:55:53 PM
7 for making me laugh! :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/19/2007 03:37:52 PM
Colors look oversaturated and the whites are overexposed. Does not exactly fit into the Street photography theme also. 4
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/19/2007 02:02:14 AM
i like. the clouds look a bit too blue tho :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/19/2007 01:03:29 AM
hey this is just passed Orewa aint it g8 shot
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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