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Blake House
Blake House
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Challenge: Reflections Without Mirrors IV (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Pentax K100D
Lens: Pentax DA 14mm f/2.8 ED
Location: Kensington, CA
Date: Feb 8, 2008
Aperture: f/16
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/8-1/4-1/2-1-2 sec.
Galleries: Architecture, Water
Date Uploaded: Feb 9, 2008

 This is the official residence of the UC Berkeley chancellor, called Blake House. It is surrounded by a small botanic garden that is open to the public on weekdays. I've been meaning to get out there, and when this challenge came up I figured it would be a good opportunity to shoot the reflecting pool in front of the residence. Had a hard time picking a shot to enter this week. Liked several, but don't have a clue which will score the best. I settled on this one ... hope I made a good choice.

Tonemapped from 5 exposures, 1 stop apart, then processed the reflecting pool and the rest of the pic separately in Elements with standard adjustments.

Statistics
Place: 97 out of 188
Avg (all users): 5.5792
Avg (commenters): 5.5000
Avg (participants): 5.4250
Avg (non-participants): 5.6990
Views since voting: 1889
Views during voting: 306
Votes: 183
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 09/23/2016 05:48:57 PM
never said how much I liked this. (not crazy about tone mapping, but the feel of light in this is so pleasing).
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 02/18/2008 08:23:58 AM
The water is so mirrorlike perhaps some cropping would have made it place higher, I gave you a 10....
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/17/2008 04:29:07 PM
Nice composition, but to me, the processing is too harsh.
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 02/16/2008 11:59:33 PM
I like this one very much.......
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 02/15/2008 04:03:53 PM
The reflection in the water is gorgeous. The parts other than the water, however, are too processed (tonemapping or shadow/highlight) for my taste, particularly the greens. There's a nice depth in the colors shown in the water that seems to have been removed from the rest of the image. The water part is really great though.
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 02/13/2008 10:55:12 PM
Good composition, but I feel like the Shadow/Highlight adjustment has been a bit overused here; as was sharpening...
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 02/13/2008 05:48:25 AM
Quite pleasantly geometrical; the processing feels over-forced though - the shadows are brought so far up that the light feels unbalanced, and there's a fringing to everything that feels unnatural - most especially visible in the edges of the trees against the sky.
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 02/11/2008 02:51:31 AM
Great composition, shame about the slightly blurred look. I'd also have kept the water a little darker to help the rest of the picture which is now overexposed.
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