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"Steel" Life
"Steel" Life
jerowe


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Still (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Location: Southern Arkansas University Campus
Date: Mar 24, 2007
Aperture: 6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Landscape
Date Uploaded: Mar 25, 2007

Can't get much stationary than this. :)

I really hope this does well. The sky was crazy yesterday, the clouds were out and it was beautiful.

Post Processing:
Ran through 1-raw file tone-mapping in Photomatix
Took jpg into photoshop and cropped, then levels curves adjustments, then i added the border with canvas resize
image size change, then smart sharpen
save for web, then submit


Statistics
Place: 31 out of 276
Avg (all users): 6.3129
Avg (commenters): 6.6250
Avg (participants): 6.1471
Avg (non-participants): 6.4316
Views since voting: 821
Views during voting: 263
Votes: 163
Comments: 10
Favorites: 0


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04/08/2007 06:31:28 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club.

Wow, what a dramatic image. Fits the challenge well. And god, that's a terrible pun in the title :p

The subject matter is interesting, the POV is good, the movement of the sky nicely contrasts with the stillness of the tower. So in terms of the way the picture was taken, I wouldn't change anything.

In terms of the post-processing:
-The tower isn't quite perfectly centred. If you wanted it to be, it should have been rotated very slightly (1.65 degrees clockwise) before being cropped.
-The image looks a bit oversaturated, particularly some of the clouds. This is a bit difficult to deal with in basic editing, but it might have been worth playing around with 'selective colour' and 'shadows/highlights' adjustments.

But anyway, those are minor points. Well done on a great image!

Jelena
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/03/2007 08:40:15 AM
What on Earth is that thing?
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04/02/2007 01:18:34 PM
Very nice contrasting colors.
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03/31/2007 02:44:21 PM
Love the edit and title - 9
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03/30/2007 11:04:58 PM
Thats still..... that for sure.....
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03/29/2007 03:35:20 PM
Nice technically but no real wow factor.
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03/29/2007 01:27:47 AM
wow
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03/28/2007 03:06:37 PM
Love the dramatic coloring, what a sense of height.
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03/28/2007 07:41:04 AM
Pretty poor concept, but fairly well executed if i'm honest. It looks overprocessed. I don't really understand it either, i get the 'still'/'steel'.
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03/28/2007 06:06:36 AM
overly saturated. centered at the bottom but slightly not at top.
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