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Under the Arches
Under the Arches
SaraR


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Shapes III (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Location: York, England
Date: May 21, 2007
Aperture: f2.8
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/30th
Date Uploaded: May 22, 2007

 I chose this location and compositon as I thought the series of repeated shapes - arches, rectangles and triangles - fitted the challenge well. I decided on black and white as it allowed enough contrast to show the intricacies of the metal wrk on the under-sie of the bridge; a secondary efect is that attention is not drawn to the bright blue and red signs that otherwise detract a little from the scene. I would have liked to take the photo straight on, but this would have involved standing in the river, which is around 14 ft deep at this point...

Post-processing:

Convert from RAW using RawShooter essentials 2006
- saturation to 0
- increase contrast
- add a very little fill-light
- reduce colour temp to 2800

Open in Photoshop Essentials 4
- shrpen (USM 75, 7, 1)
- resize
- sharpen (USM 35, 2, 0)
- save for web

Statistics
Place: 171 out of 343
Avg (all users): 5.4176
Avg (commenters): 6.6667
Avg (participants): 5.2658
Avg (non-participants): 5.5340
Views since voting: 731
Views during voting: 233
Votes: 182
Comments: 5
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/29/2007 07:33:05 AM
Nice photo overall - with many shapes throughout.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/24/2007 09:47:49 AM
This is a nice image and composition, but there does not seem to be anything too white. The lightes shade I can see is kind of a muddied up white, maybe 20% grey. I would like to see brighter whites in this image too.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/24/2007 03:29:28 AM
A very interesting image. I will look after the voting to find out where it was taken. I like it.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/23/2007 11:50:59 AM
Not sure it really fits with this challenge, but nice picture!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/23/2007 10:38:25 AM
This is architecturally fascinating and meets the challenge so well with the myriad of shapes and textures that are captured here.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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