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Romance on the Wharf
Romance on the Wharf
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Street Photography III (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Location: Santa Barbara, CA
Date: Oct 25, 2008
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/400
Galleries: Emotive, Seascapes
Date Uploaded: Oct 25, 2008

 My first entry as a member and using advanced editing.

Shot in RAW
Processed with Photoshop CS4 (trial version)
minor adjustments in Camera Raw (exposure, sharpening)

Desaturated using channel mixer, applied high-pass layer overlay

So I know that this is not typical "Street" as it's not on the street and doesn't possess that typical gritty, urban feeling of most Street photos, but I felt that this met the challenge description of a candid situation in a public place.

Statistics
Place: 71 out of 146
Avg (all users): 5.6552
Avg (commenters): 6.1818
Avg (participants): 5.5273
Avg (non-participants): 5.7143
Views since voting: 760
Views during voting: 370
Votes: 174
Comments: 12
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 03/02/2009 01:14:25 AM
Lots of great elements in this photo. Everything seemed to align at just the right time. I don't even mind that your sky blew out. Because of how it's a gradient of tones, it seems to work.

I can't get over how out of scale that boat is. It looks like a toy, heh.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/02/2008 09:47:03 PM
I like the touch of the Egret caught in flight, of course that was jsut luck that it happened by at the right time. Still, it adds a nice element to the scene.
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 11/02/2008 09:04:03 AM
Good capture well composed
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 11/02/2008 02:09:52 AM
Nice moment and well composed...there is so much beyond there intimacy to look at although a bit hazy.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/31/2008 09:16:22 PM
Meets Challenge:2
Technical:1
Interestingness:2
Creativity:
TOTAL: 5
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 10/31/2008 04:07:15 PM
where is the street uh 6
 10/30/2008 02:29:32 PM
Very much my kind of shot - neat stuff to see everywhere. A couple, a sailboat, someone wading, a pelican (yay!), a motor boat, and trees. All grounded by a bench. Has the lovely feel of a late summer afternoon - relaxed, warm, and carefree.
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 10/29/2008 12:49:49 AM
Well composed, and the pelican adds a very nice touch.
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 10/27/2008 05:29:49 PM
I think the sepia tone in this picture fits it very well.
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 10/27/2008 05:10:27 PM
Lovely shot. Has wonderful elements... romance, a great view, birds in flight... It suffers a bit from editing flaws like sharpening halos and slight pixel distortion though, but nonetheless lovely :)
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 10/27/2008 02:48:44 PM
Seeing the man's profile adds a lot to the image. I would bet that a color version would just as strong or stronger than the bw version. The boat and bird add to the shot and allow the eye to move around the image with the log drawing the eye back to the people sitting on it.
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 10/27/2008 09:33:00 AM
Composition is top notch!
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