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Cellar Door
Cellar Door
wyverndragon


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Doors (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D300
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED
Location: Redmond, Washington, USA
Date: Aug 16, 2008
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/50
Galleries: Black and White
Date Uploaded: Aug 19, 2008

 I went out around some parks and shot a handful of cool doors. Then I found an even cooler door, in my mind, right in my basement.

Shot at night with illumination from a lone speedlight in an umbrella high on camera right to get a moonlight effect. The "vignette" is all natural, a nice artifact of the umbrella. Another speedlight inside the house backlit the pirate flag over the window.

A little exposure correction, then desaturated, rotated and cropped.

This is my first submission, having spent a few months just lurking, whee!

Statistics
Place: 144 out of 156
Avg (all users): 4.5721
Avg (commenters): 3.0000
Avg (participants): 4.5870
Avg (non-participants): 4.5677
Views since voting: 740
Views during voting: 292
Votes: 201
Comments: 1
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 08/27/2008 08:38:35 AM
Admittedly I didn't vote this too high during the challenge.

Now reading your description I think the main problem with the picture is that it's underexposed. I think if you lit the flag more relative to the outside speedlight, it would give a more dramatic effect, and also the vignetting you mention would be more visible if the overall exposure would be better. If the speedlights were at their max already, you could have increased the ISO a bit - grain wouldn't be a problem in this shot.

Just some ideas - and don't get discouraged by the fact that your first submission didn't do so well.
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