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Challenge: Free Study 2007-09 (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Lens: Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
Location: Mt Dandenong, Victoria, Australia
Date: Sep 22, 2007
Galleries: Urban, Landscape
Date Uploaded: Sep 30, 2007

I LOVE this place - it's up in the hills by the side of a winding road and it just looks like someone up and left one day - inside is filled with odd bits of someone's history... very cool!

I had way too much time on my hands when processing this - was laid up with a sore foot - still not sure it's how I wanted it to look, but am not confident I have the skills yet to process how I'd like - GRIN!

Anyhoo - I tried SO many experiments with this - all within the Advanced ruleset:

Slight changes to RAW file in DPP then covert.
In photoshop convert to PSD file levels, curves, select colours (one by one), then constrast, hue/sat - if fact I tried them all - often just going 'step backward' once I saw the result.


Statistics
Place: 364 out of 503
Avg (all users): 5.4483
Avg (commenters): 5.4000
Avg (participants): 5.4396
Avg (non-participants): 5.4800
Views since voting: 740
Views during voting: 189
Votes: 116
Comments: 12
Favorites: 0


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10/08/2007 02:39:23 AM
I love this shot... very emotive to me. Peaceful, yet ever so vaguely threatening. I'm fascinated by abandoned buildings, and the lives they once held... I can't help but think of the time and love that went into constructing it; the plans the builders had, and wonder what happened that caused it all to go awry.

PM me if you post any outtakes - I'd love to see them.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/04/2007 02:31:18 AM
avg vote, good framing of subject , lighting is good. but house doesn't have anything special about it that makes me want to keep looking at it.
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10/02/2007 09:07:47 AM
This is one of those photos that makes the viewer want to know more. I'd really like to enter that building and poke around. Great colors and slight spooky emotive.
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10/01/2007 09:20:40 PM
I like the subdued color tones of this shot. Very nice
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10/01/2007 05:16:05 PM
Love all the green here, the textures and composition. Makes me wonder who lived there, but it also seems creepy. Good job.
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10/01/2007 04:10:44 PM
very interesting pic. may be a bit too much frame. handheld, as it is not very crisp and sharp? but my compliments seeing this detail.
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10/01/2007 03:05:53 PM
very cool image ... has a very mysterious feel to it ...
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10/01/2007 10:59:58 AM
This shot doesnt grab me. The processing is kind of cool, maybe a bit too heavy on the greens. There is a funky halo just inside your border.
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10/01/2007 09:46:59 AM
no tension in this image, the DOF is too large and the foreground too cluttered
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10/01/2007 09:44:09 AM
Very fitting title. I really like the abandoned feel of it. The oof leaves on the left are a bit distracting.
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10/01/2007 08:27:08 AM
If you had cropped the left side a bit more and a higher score from me.
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10/01/2007 07:29:40 AM
they dont grow moss like thatl anywhere else, thems fighting moss. ;)
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