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Ye Olde Porta Potty
Ye Olde Porta Potty
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Old Ways (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II
Date: Jan 27, 2008
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/200s
Galleries: Emotive, Rural
Date Uploaded: Jan 27, 2008

 This was fun to shoot and even more so to edit :)

Okay, here are my editing steps:
Crop Square
Layer
Shadow/Highlight
Levels (messed with all 3 channels) reduce opacity
Hue/Sat (colorized to sepiaish tone)
Brightness/Contrast (13, 19)
Levels again redux opac
flatten all
dup layer gaussain blur redux opac
flatten
USM
flatten
resize
add noise (gaussain) monochrome
add border/stroke 5px centered
I hope this goes over well... I GOTTA WIN SOMETHING SOMETIME OR I WILL HAVE TO TAKE A HUMILIATING SP!!! LOL

Yes, this is really an outhouse... yes, it is still used :)

Statistics
Place: 87 out of 159
Avg (all users): 5.2085
Avg (commenters): 6.1250
Avg (participants): 5.1111
Avg (non-participants): 5.2376
Views since voting: 680
Views during voting: 333
Votes: 235
Comments: 10
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 02/09/2008 01:51:24 PM
I love the tones. Some of the greens and browns you coaxed out of the image are almost the color of... well, we don't have to go there.

Maybe it was by design, but the sky in the upper right is a bit noisy. Of course, I'm not sure how you could have fixed that (at least not in Basic editing) without losing some of the texture that really makes this image.

5.2? I gave this a six and think it should have scored closer to that. Nice job!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/05/2008 02:13:46 PM
I'm not a big fan of the tones here. Seems like there is a lot of noise.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/04/2008 07:06:17 PM
yes have used lots of these
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 02/02/2008 08:25:23 PM
Cool looking structure. Nice green cast to this monochrome image... But it doesn't look like an outhouse to me. And the graffiti detracts from the beauty of the image. I'd crop that part on the right out.
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 02/01/2008 11:32:41 PM
I'm not fond of the color cast here. Like the idea, though.
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 02/01/2008 12:31:32 PM
Makes me want to hold my nose! Good color for theme. The trees hovering overhead makes the picture scary; I wouldn't like to go there out in the dark. Although the shadows are essential to the theme, I think it would look better without the shadow in the right foreground.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/01/2008 12:26:37 AM
the lighting could be better
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 01/31/2008 08:36:37 AM
lol
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 01/30/2008 10:18:14 AM
Even though this is a porta potty this is such a beautiful shot that you dont even relize that. You really captured the beauty around it. Great job.
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 01/30/2008 08:14:25 AM
the green colour inthis shot is an interesting take. I think if it had been any other colour, the shot would have been less dramtic 9
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