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Heavenly Light (Faith)
Heavenly Light (Faith)
choltmeier


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Challenge: 7 Heavenly Virtues II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, MN
Date: Jun 20, 2008
Aperture: f/2.8 + 1
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/180
Galleries: Still Life
Date Uploaded: Jun 23, 2008

 Another trip to the cemetery. There are some amazing old tombstones from the 1800s that really get me thinking about life. This one caught my eye because of the nice statue and a warm morning sun coming just over the top... seemed rather heavenly and "faith-like".

Post Processing
Camera Raw - exposure, blacks, recovery
crop
sharpen
noise reduction
tweak colors & saturation
curves
gaussian blur @ 30% opacity
add border
save for web

Statistics
Place: 27 out of 83
Avg (all users): 5.7297
Avg (commenters): 6.4444
Avg (participants): 5.3611
Avg (non-participants): 5.8188
Views since voting: 1030
Views during voting: 271
Votes: 185
Comments: 10
Favorites: 0

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 07/07/2008 09:20:59 PM
Critique Club Review:

Color Saturation and Hue: Colors are natural and within expected parameters for this type of image.

Brightness and contrast: Overall brightness and contrast are done well.

Focus and depth of field: Focus is very sharp, and depth of field is used to good advantage to isolate a distracting background.

Shooting this image at a bit of an up angle without correcting the perspective makes it look like the statue is leaning a bit.

Using the sun for the halo is a neat idea, however it looks like it got away from you a little bit. The upper part of the hand and the cross are starting to wash out a little. I suspect that the religious tone may have hurt a bit in the voting, I would have thought this would have finished a little higher.

Nice interesting photo.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/01/2008 11:17:15 PM
Just a tad too much spot of sun for my taste (kind of overwhelms the top of the statue) but I do love the colortones and textures.
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 07/01/2008 10:30:44 PM
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 06/30/2008 10:37:36 PM
beautiful image
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 06/30/2008 02:30:32 PM
Nice one here.
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 06/27/2008 11:34:45 PM
Good picture.
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 06/27/2008 11:33:26 PM
I like the idea but the placement of the light isn't quite right.
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 06/27/2008 05:16:59 PM
i love the way that the composition and background help the statue exude so much emotion, even though it is still stone
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 06/26/2008 08:13:54 PM
great b/g bokeh /7
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 06/25/2008 12:25:59 AM
Nice placement of the sun. 7
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