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Beautiful Bridge
Beautiful Bridge
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Challenge: Selective Desaturation II (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Sigma 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Compact Aspherical Hyperzoom for Sigma
Location: san francisco
Date: May 14, 2007
Aperture: f8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/400
Galleries: Architecture, Transportation
Date Uploaded: May 19, 2007

A favorite subject, the Golden Gate Bridge. Tiny crop to straighten waterline. Fiddled a little with contrast and bright. Desaturated the entire image in one layer. Used sliders to remove unwanted colors in another layer then erased, carefully, vestiges of remaining color.
Merged layers, sharpen. Save for web.

Statistics
Place: 333 out of 556
Avg (all users): 5.2335
Avg (commenters): 4.5000
Avg (participants): 5.1573
Avg (non-participants): 5.5102
Views since voting: 804
Views during voting: 313
Votes: 227
Comments: 4
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/22/2007 05:18:16 AM
Not the most spectacular shot I've ever seen of this bridge. Doesn't really have any oomph. Maybe the lack of a dramatic sky, or simply a lack of colour in the sky is what causes it. Perhaps you could have shot it at a different time of day to get more interesting lighting.
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05/21/2007 05:13:53 PM
All the red on the bridge is good and should be the focus...but that little bit of red on the boat is really distracting to me.
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05/21/2007 11:16:58 AM
I love the idea that came up with. I'd say, though, that the end of the bridge you aer missing some of your red...as in half of the base and the last part of it. You also should have taken the red out of the boat passing by, it's distracting to the eye.
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05/21/2007 02:08:05 AM
The picture is nice, and the composition is very good, but the desaturation is very badly executed. The main point of the challenge is desaturation, hence the bad vote.
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