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The Amsterdam
The Amsterdam
ajschel


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Challenge: Boats (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Date: May 25, 2008
Aperture: 9.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/160s
Galleries: History, High Dynamic Range (HDR)
Date Uploaded: May 25, 2008

 Shot on a cloudy day, my first real attempt at tonemapping/HDR, hope everything I did is legal... lots of adjustments in Lightroom, edited in CS3 (mainly cloned out a distracting piece of bridge) and processed in Photomatix. Returned to CS3 and some color adjustments, resize, save for web

Statistics
Place: 23 out of 162
Avg (all users): 6.3679
Avg (commenters): 6.9500
Avg (participants): 5.7733
Avg (non-participants): 6.7458
Views since voting: 1775
Views during voting: 408
Votes: 193
Comments: 26
Favorites: 3 (view)

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/31/2008 01:11:58 PM
Very artistic, excellent processing.
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 05/30/2008 11:25:48 PM
Beautiful!
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 05/30/2008 11:13:35 PM
Nice composition. The processing makes this look like an old painting and is not to my taste.
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 05/30/2008 01:18:18 PM
Based on the TN I thought I'd skip it, but I'm glad I didn't! Great graphic effect, works really well. Just a pity you didn't get more/the rest of the stern on there as well (or didn't it work out?). Anyway, your effort was well invested!
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 05/30/2008 04:04:06 AM
Nice treatment, looks like a drawing
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 05/30/2008 01:14:12 AM
The HDR makes this look like a colored-pencil drawing. It's interesting. Dark corner in upper left is a bit distracting, but rest of texture & detail is nice.
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 05/29/2008 11:38:29 PM
lots of halos in the rigging which means over sharpened unless that's the effect you intended

some vignetting in upper left too
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 05/29/2008 09:27:22 PM
This is the most interesting looking ship in the challenge. Unfortunately, the photo doesn't do it justice. Congrats on finding such a great subject though. :)
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 05/29/2008 06:31:52 PM
Nice edit - works for me. 10
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 05/29/2008 05:17:35 PM
this appears to be an hdr/tone map. The problem with tone mapping is that sometimes it does not get in between little lines. The triangles in created from the mass lines is lighter than the clouds outside of the triangles.
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 05/29/2008 01:57:41 AM
Nice composition but watch your HDR halos.
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 05/28/2008 11:59:51 PM
another of my favorite methods where you take a photo and create a scene that could be a canvass painting. Love that! If any time pm me a quick description of the process. Nice work/8
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 05/28/2008 11:59:22 PM
beautiful
PP very impressive
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 05/28/2008 04:59:26 PM
Generally, I don't like these processing effects, but you have found the perfect balance between interest and craziness. Nice job.
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 05/28/2008 09:53:41 AM
really gorgeous tone mapping and I love the grainy look! 10 all the way
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 05/28/2008 09:41:47 AM
Great color...Good luck
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 05/28/2008 06:20:32 AM
this is so nice!
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 05/27/2008 09:32:34 PM
Nice HDR, not sure the close crop works here since the back of the ship seems like the best part of the boat. 6
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 05/27/2008 08:46:55 PM
this looks so cartoonish..a bit too much tonemapping for my taste
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 05/27/2008 08:40:21 PM
Beautiful vessal
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 05/27/2008 08:22:05 PM
Great composition and subject. That said, I hate your pp. Why did you overprocess this beautiful image? This is an example of the evils of photoshop. Sorry to be so gruff! But, I see a potentially great photo here! I'm so disappointed you've caused such haloes around the masts with dodge/burn and destroyed the shadow/highlight interplay in the ship. The sky looks like end-of-days. There are horrid, black/dark gray vignettes in the upper left and top. This is not an image anyone would every see with one's eyes. You've jumped over the edge of image manipulation. I certainly hope you'll accept these heartfelt comments as constructive criticism.
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 05/26/2008 10:11:38 PM
not a popular trick for DC but I think it looks awesome here
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 05/26/2008 09:10:08 PM
Love the tone mapping on this... some things don't look good with this much but this particular scene does... love the subtle colors!
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 05/26/2008 08:04:07 PM
Love the processing... this is a gorgeous photo. 10
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 05/26/2008 09:48:04 AM
I really like your processing technique here....overdone in a good way! Feels like a vintage maritime postcard! *7*
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 05/26/2008 02:31:19 AM
the image appears a little flat for my liking.
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