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meyers


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Challenge: Silky-Smooth (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
Location: Chicago, IL
Date: May 12, 2007
Aperture: f/5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Abstract
Date Uploaded: May 15, 2007

 Looking through a waterfall of a large fountain along the Chicago River. I bumped the Hue and Saturation values to get nicer colors, cropped, and tweaked brightness and contrast a bit. I had a difficult time trying to keep the rich color I had in Photoshop with the JPG save file. This is kind of artsy and abstract, and should keep me in the comfortable area of the bottom 15%.

Statistics
Place: 129 out of 144
Avg (all users): 4.4393
Avg (commenters): 3.8333
Avg (participants): 3.9310
Avg (non-participants): 4.5721
Views since voting: 961
Views during voting: 435
Votes: 280
Comments: 23
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 06/19/2007 12:36:51 AM
As other TSers have said, I like the abstract quality. I also really like the colors. Have you tried blurring it more to see whether you like it?

Message edited by author 2007-06-19 00:37:07.
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 05/26/2007 06:01:29 PM
Hello from the Critique club, my name is Jon Rowe, and i will be looking at your image this evening :)

Composition/Lighting : composition wise, this seems random but i think it would work if the lighting was quite a bit better, or if a slower shutter speed was used to show flow, then it would be smooth.

Challenge : i really don't see this fitting the challenge, for the main reason of it being incredibly abstract. very nice attempt though. i like the colors, and the natural gradient here.

Conclusion : pretty much got lower score i imagine for the abstract nature of it. the subject itself before shooting i'm sure looked extremely silky and smooth, but the way it was portrayed through your picture in my opinion is somewhat rough and abstract. Keep joining challenges and growing with us all. You're doing well!

Keep on shootin!

Good luck on your future challenges:)
-Jon Rowe
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 05/24/2007 06:33:06 PM
Terrific shot, I like how smooth the colors bleed together. Wonderful abstract (which of course generally don't do well here).
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 05/23/2007 11:48:02 PM
way to oob!!
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 05/23/2007 02:42:21 PM
Love the abstract, painterly quality.
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 05/23/2007 11:58:49 AM
Very neat shot. It really does have a silky feel to it.
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 05/23/2007 10:49:33 AM
Beautiful abstract, Rob. The colors are great. Nice job.
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 05/23/2007 02:55:28 AM
This was an 8 from me. Beautiful abstract. I wonder if a gaussian blur or a bucket of neat image might have made this look even silkier...? Though I kind of like being able to see the dots clearly. Nice bold entry!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/22/2007 11:02:06 AM
This is lovely.
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 05/19/2007 10:51:09 AM
Impressionistic style.
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 05/19/2007 07:19:12 AM
See this in abstract but not silky-smooth sorry
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 05/18/2007 12:10:14 PM
What is this???? Looks blurry.
 05/18/2007 11:33:00 AM
I like the impressionist feel to this image. Nicely done.
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 05/18/2007 11:07:04 AM
i like the waterfall effect in this picture nicely done
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 05/17/2007 03:57:48 PM
Interesting photograph, but I don't like it as a silky smooth category intrance. I like the photograph though.
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 05/17/2007 03:07:53 PM
looks very like a monet - nice and painterly 7
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 05/17/2007 01:17:53 PM
I like the interpretation and the color.
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 05/17/2007 01:02:42 PM
I can see what you were going for, but the focus is way off.
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 05/17/2007 12:06:27 PM
I wouldn't call this "silky smooth"
Cool colors, though.
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 05/16/2007 06:44:27 PM
reflection in water do give a smooth/silky look and feel, but this doesn't imho
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 05/16/2007 11:13:20 AM
Needs a focal point
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 05/16/2007 06:57:08 AM
not sure what this has to do with silky smooth?
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 05/16/2007 01:35:30 AM
WOW this is very blury and hard to make out.
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