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Challenge: Missing Link (Advanced Editing V)
Collection: Senses
Camera: Canon PowerShot A530
Location: Tewksbury, NJ
Date: Jul 15, 2007
Aperture: 3.5
ISO: auto
Shutter: 80
Galleries: Black and White, Rural
Date Uploaded: Jul 15, 2007

levels, calculations to b/w, crop, USM

this is a house that once belonged to Marcel Duchamp.

a tough challenge, I hope people think this qualifies.

====post-challenge

ok, I did not shoot this for the challenge. skewsme suggested it might apply. I just felt like the vines were becoming part of the wall, so it made me wonder about that transition, from life to stone. What links life to death? My processing was planned to make the roots seem as stone-like as possible.

Statistics
Place: 73 out of 119
Avg (all users): 5.2619
Avg (commenters): 5.6667
Avg (participants): 4.9318
Avg (non-participants): 5.4390
Views since voting: 816
Views during voting: 204
Votes: 126
Comments: 9
Favorites: 0


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07/30/2007 06:16:03 AM
As I recently lived (and hope to live again) in a place where sights like this are very common, I'd have seen the "link" right away - the parts now missing where the vine was trimmed away. Of course, that may not have been what you intended, but that's what I see with respect to the challenge. Beyond that, I really like the picture.
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07/27/2007 07:25:51 AM
Greetings from the critique club :)

First of all I just want to say Huh? I am sorry, I just don´t get this shot, or rather, I don´t get how it ties in with the challenge and thus I probably would have voted it a 4 if I had voted in this challenge, knocking off a couple of points for my own lack of vision on how it ties in with the challenge. At least I am honest :)

I guess you were going for that life (the branches) and dead objects (the stones) don´t have a link cause they are alive and dead? Best I can come up with, sorry dude... :P

Aaaaanyway I do like the shot, only gripe I have with it is the tie in with the challenge. It´s well exposed, got great b/w tones and I like the clay like texture you were able to bring out in the stones, whole shot looks like the branch and stones were covered in mud wich I like about it. I probably would have voted this shot a 6 if the challenge had simply been black and white. Composition is not what I would call good but not bad either, a little bit shot too much straight on the subject or an ordinary vantage point, maybe another angle would have appealed more to me personally but like I said, it´s not bad.

I don´t know what else to say buddy so I´ll just say kind regards from Iceland, Lárus.
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07/26/2007 09:00:33 AM
My lord, Marcel Duchamp once lived in Tewksbury NJ? The things you learn on this site. :) Very nice range of tones here, and I like how the vines branch up and slowly spread through the frame.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/22/2007 09:32:51 PM
Underexposed in many areas.
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07/18/2007 07:28:01 PM
I would have liked to have seen alittle more pop in this one..
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07/18/2007 05:59:23 PM
Very nice texture and composition.
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07/18/2007 09:14:46 AM
I would have liked to see this shot in color
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07/17/2007 09:06:55 PM
Wonderful image, great composition and processing.
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07/16/2007 01:28:10 AM
Sorry doesn't do much for me. Maybe the lighting could be improved?? I am not sure what to suggest here.
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