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Challenge: Selective Desaturation II (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Lens: Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 EX DC for Canon
Location: UBC Museam of Anthropology
Date: May 16, 2007
Aperture: 8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Still Life, Black and White
Date Uploaded: May 17, 2007

Spent the better part of wednesday night up at the Anthropology museum at UBC. Found that I something about this shot really seemed to strike a cord with me.

Photoshop:
Crop
Desat sky
Curves
Levels
Dodge & Clone (Sky and Totem)
Neat Image

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06/02/2007 10:30:57 AM
Greetings from the Critique Club

These vividly colored 'totem poles' are always a delight to find and this one, with its weathered patina, yet excellent coloration, was a good find, indeed.

I very much like the angle from which you addressed the main attraction and you captured the colors beautifully. I do have a bit more of a a problem with the placement in the frame. Probably because the sky gives the appearance of being almost uniformly gray. Maybe a little more d&b in the sky would have made those clouds evoke more moodiness and interest. It's my opinion (and I guess that's why I'm in the Critique Club; to give my opinion) that if that sky had been more exciting, this image would have really done very well. It has the potential of being very strong, indeed.

It was a pleasure to view this image again more closely.

SFAlice
 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/22/2007 03:03:43 PM
Good perspective and nice sky.
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05/22/2007 09:05:59 AM
nice shot, good perspective, a little too dark on the bottom of the totem pole though. a bump in blue saturation might have helped
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05/21/2007 12:44:55 AM
Absolutely RIGHT ON! Well done - strong!
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