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Challenge: Love II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D70
Location: Seward Park - Seattle, WA
Date: Feb 18, 2007
Aperture: f 10.0
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Black and White
Date Uploaded: Feb 20, 2007

 Shot while poking around Seward Park looking for inspiration this weekend. I cropped, converted to B&W using an HSL adjustment layer for the first time, adjusted brightness/contrast and sharpened just a little, hope it scores well.

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 03/05/2007 08:09:48 PM
Critique Club

Nice picture but has a flat feel to me even though it appears to be on a circular object (i.e. Tree or poll). There are a few factors IMO that caused this. Lack of detail, I looked at your image histogram and notice that you had a lot of gray area coverage but the picture fell of considerably on the white end of the spectrum and some on the black end. A +10 of contrast would of helped.

You also took the shot a f/10 which caused the DOF to not shallow as much as it would have if you had taken it at f/2.8 to f/4.0. It would give you a shallow DOF as the tree/pole gets further away from the lens on the sides and in turn would of given the photograph a more dimensional feel.

You subject is nice and I feel meet the challenge. Great shot opportunity. If possible I would suggest a re-shoot with a large aperture (2.8 -4.0) and don't let the trunk take up the complete picture. Choose your composition wisely with the tree off the right letting us see the DOF.

I hope this helps and wish you great success in future challenges. If you have any questions feel free to contact me via PM.

regards,
SDW

Message edited by author 2007-03-05 20:19:53.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/27/2007 11:22:53 AM
Fun shot. You did great capturing the detail in this carving.
 02/24/2007 02:50:23 PM
Why would u hurt this Tree like this, i am appauled!
 02/23/2007 06:43:13 PM
The witty title lifts this.
 02/21/2007 11:12:33 AM
A nice take on the challenge.. a bit difficult to read the lettering though. It would have been really touching to find a carved heart from many years ago leaving the question of what happened to that love over the years.


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