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Challenge: Image Grain II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 VR DG IF-ED
Location: Georgetown, Washington, DC
Date: Mar 12, 2007
Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 320
Shutter: 140
Galleries: Black and White
Date Uploaded: Mar 13, 2007

 Taken of a stone statue outside an antique store in Georgetown. Added contrast and levels layer. Converted to B&W, added noise filter, and then sharpened pretty heartily.

Statistics
Place: 363 out of 399
Avg (all users): 4.3955
Avg (commenters): 3.0000
Avg (participants): 4.1134
Avg (non-participants): 4.7375
Views since voting: 846
Views during voting: 256
Votes: 177
Comments: 3
Favorites: 0

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 04/19/2007 05:12:40 PM
Originally posted by Spizzer:
I never understood why this did so poorly, and the two comments I got were not descriptive enough to even tell if they were for or against it.


Positives:
This is really an inspired idea. Looks like you want to make one of those pictures that doesn't look like anything at all until you find the lion hidden within the noise. Has a high contrast, high key look

Technicals:
Choice of black and white is good. The very high contrast processing and look is done good and is remarkably well balanced across the image. Makes it look like a renaissance artist's sketch. Sharpness is hard to evaluate because of the type of image it is.

You chose to add noise for effect as opposed to grain and that may have affected how voters reacted to the image.

The Challenge:
Image Grain was a tough challenge with a lot of discussion about what and what does not meet the challenge and there were all kinds of suggestions as to how to accomplish that. Looks like you chose to add image noise as opposed to grain to meet the challenge. There is a big difference between film grain and electronic noise and that affected voting. Even though both were allowed, voters expected to see something more like film grain than electronic noise and that is not what they got with this image.

Oddly, you may have been negatively affected by how well you did this image. It looks more like an artwork than a photograph and you may have been faulted for that. Some may have thought it literal and gave it DNMC treatment.

Suggestions:
Find and experiment with a film grain filter to see what you can do with this image to make it look more like a photograph. Probably won't improve the image at all but you might want to see how it changes its look and feel. I didn't enter this challenge but I used both noise and film grain filters for effect in the image I prepared for it.

You might chose to go the other way and add much more noise and make it even more high key to enhance the 'hidden figure' effect. Hard to say if that would have worked either. :)

The lion is somewhat center focused and maybe making it off centered or take it from a diffrent angle would have made it more intersting to viewers.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/15/2007 01:27:54 PM
van gogh in b&w
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 03/14/2007 09:38:04 PM
Doesn't even look like a photo.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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