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Red Window on a Gray Day
Red Window on a Gray Day
darcy


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Challenge: Window View (Advanced Editing I)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G3
Location: Downtown St. John's
Date: Apr 5, 2004
Aperture: 2.5
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Vintage, Rural
Date Uploaded: Apr 6, 2004

 This is a window on the side of the Curiosity Shop in downtown St. John's. I took this on a rather bleak, gray day - not uncommon for the weather in this city. I took many different angles, playing with the lines of the clapboard and the way the window would squish from one side to the other. I think I liked this one the best.

In Photoshop I cropped, bumped up the contrast and a touch on the brightness. I then went to town on the clapboard, which was kind if a dull yellow, and used the color replacement tool to paint it a brighter yellow. I then took down the lightness levels of everything but red and magenta in the hue/saturation settings to get the window to stand out. I think it looks pretty good. A bit of unsharp mask, resize, and I'm done.

Statistics
Place: 72 out of 135
Avg (all users): 5.3697
Avg (commenters): 7.1429
Avg (participants): 5.1429
Avg (non-participants): 5.6049
Views since voting: 854
Votes: 165
Comments: 8
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/17/2004 07:20:18 PM
nice textures
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 04/17/2004 06:59:11 AM
some thing about the top left corner upsets this photo... to busy ?
maybe if you didn't have the bottom of the window parallel to the photo base and showed a small amount of extra weather board in the lower left it would change the balance and stop your eye being drawn to that corner 8
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 04/15/2004 01:24:50 PM
I gave this a 9 initially... but on my second pass, decided it was a 10. The only problem I have is the telephone line reflections. The peeling paint works extremely well.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/12/2004 07:46:16 PM
I like the contrasting colors. Good shot.
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 04/12/2004 11:23:00 AM
The spot color detracts from an otherwise great shot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/12/2004 10:07:12 AM
Well taken. I like the texture and decay and the angle of view. The fade from right to left also is nice.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/12/2004 08:34:17 AM
I don't think I can really see through the window, but, so what? I like this picture for the detail, and the colors. A polarizer and a view through the window would have gotten a slightly higher score. -7
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 04/12/2004 12:59:32 AM
Nice shot very rustic
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