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Steaming Ahead
Steaming Ahead
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Challenge: Old Ways (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon PowerShot SD870 IS / IXUS 860 IS
Location: London, England
Date: Jan 27, 2008
Aperture: f/3.2
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/13 sec
Galleries: Science and Technology, History
Date Uploaded: Jan 28, 2008

 Taken at the Steam Museum, The Grand Junction 90 inch Engine built in 1846 pumping water at a rate of 6.4 million gallons per day to supply the city of London.

Cropped slightly, adjusted brightness and contrast.

What did I learn from this challenge:
How to change the hue/sat to improve the image.
Interesting angles work well

Statistics
Place: 105 out of 159
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Avg (commenters): 5.5455
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Views since voting: 989
Views during voting: 332
Votes: 232
Comments: 12
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AuthorThread
 02/07/2008 08:24:37 PM
Not bad for my first entry and using my point and shoot as I didn't have my SLR lens :)

The guy in blue wasn't a dummy, he was actually operating the machine, I'd have liked to have used a slower shutter speed but he was jumping all over the place operating the machine!!

A little surprised by the 1's and 2's though!

Thanks for the pointer on colour saturation, have now just learnt how to use that function in PS :)
 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/04/2008 08:38:12 PM
cool
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 02/04/2008 07:34:59 AM
A little extra colour saturation could help here to bring out the pipes. Leave the blues though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/01/2008 08:23:05 AM
I like the juxtaposition of the fake guy and the real guy.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/01/2008 12:27:12 AM
interesting angle but does not seem old
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/31/2008 12:50:00 PM
Great POV.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/31/2008 09:31:29 AM
nice angle
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/31/2008 08:28:31 AM
Interesting angle, whatever the guy in the corner is wearing it definitely fits into "old ways", nice job!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/31/2008 12:39:22 AM
I like the angle of this photo
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/30/2008 10:35:21 PM
Great angle. Interesting use of color to focus on the man.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/30/2008 01:31:59 PM
I really like the angle this photo is taken from.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/30/2008 08:04:28 AM
great shot here, can not do much for the blown out face on teh dummy though as i am sure you know.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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