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Challenge: Free Study 2007-02 (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Date: Feb 17, 2007
Aperture: f/22
ISO: 400
Shutter: 25 seconds
Galleries: Cityscape
Date Uploaded: Feb 27, 2007

This is Auckland harbour at night. Usually the harbour is not so busy but the Queen Mary 2 was leaving port this night and there was quite a large number of smaller craft in the harbour to see her off. The Queen Mary 2 is the large moving vessel.

Editing Steps:
Convert from RAW
* exposure -1.00
* Shadow contrast +11
* Hilight contrast -100
* Saturation +40
Rotate
Crop
Clone out helicopter lights in the sky
Contrast +14
Saturation +63 on the Sky Tower only
Saturation +17
Levels 0, 1.00, 219
Resize
USM
Save for web

Statistics
Place: 260 out of 624
Avg (all users): 5.7278
Avg (commenters): 5.4000
Avg (participants): 5.6963
Avg (non-participants): 5.8529
Views since voting: 845
Views during voting: 249
Votes: 169
Comments: 6
Favorites: 0


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03/08/2007 03:29:28 PM
Welcome to Your Tit-for-tat Critique Club Critique!

The gods have given me my opportunity for revenge! ;)

Firstly, I have to be honest with you. I only gave you a 5. The good news is that most skylines get a 4 from me because I find them boring. Yours got an extra point for the exciting motion of light in the water. In fact, if I had looked at this picture more carefully, I probably would have given it a 6.

Technically, you are past my level, so I have no fixes for this. The horizon is straight enough, the exposure is good, the focus is good, you managed to keep still for 25 seconds. You seem aware of the inherent boringness of cityscapes, so you captured the motion on the bottom and emphasized the tower on the top. Good thinking. I wonder if that helicopter would have added interest? Or if you could have emphasized the stars? The more the merrier for a shot like this. maybe a tighter crop would have worked nicely, as someone else suggested.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/06/2007 08:10:31 PM
Very nice sort of time exposure / night photography. I love the feel of movement. I also wonder how a tighter crop would have looked, there is a huge amount of dark empty sky.
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03/04/2007 12:28:52 AM
Great job on the colors. This would look great in a really large format.
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03/01/2007 07:06:24 PM
The moving lights are a bit too chaotic... I could've done without them.
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03/01/2007 02:31:53 PM
Image could be larger and provide more details...
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03/01/2007 03:48:20 AM
Nice city vibe.
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