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Challenge: Trees II (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Kodak C875
Location: Prosser, WA
Date: Apr 27, 2009
Aperture: F32
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/40
Galleries: Landscape, DPChallenge GTGs
Date Uploaded: Apr 28, 2009

 Daylight, tripod, 28-70mm lens; post: abit of sharp, some midtone adjustment.

Statistics
Place: 253 out of 263
Avg (all users): 4.0773
Avg (commenters): 2.2500
Avg (participants): 3.9595
Avg (non-participants): 4.1500
Views since voting: 672
Views during voting: 282
Votes: 194
Comments: 4
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/05/2009 06:56:03 PM
A bit out of focus and seems that the mailbox is out of place in this one. It also doesn't help that the mailbox is cut off on the top. The is a "tree" challenge and unfortunately the mailbox IMO seems like the main subject of the shot and not the tree. Also, not to be too technical, but your trees seems more like a bush than a tree.
 05/04/2009 09:00:48 PM
Good subject. Don't know if the mailbox adds anything to the picture.
 05/02/2009 03:10:13 PM
if you want the mailbox in your picture, i think that the mailbox should be entirely framed...
 04/30/2009 09:43:55 PM
Sorry, but I'm afraid I have to give a fairly low vote to this, but I feel I at least should explain it.

-The mailbox being cut off like it is, is a serious composition problem. If there were only a touch of it visible, like the post, that might be seen as incidental, but it is trying to be the main subject and has the top lopped off.

-Serious JPEG compression is robbing detail. I suspect nobody else will see that, but I am a little anal about it and can spot compression at 20 yards. Your files size of only 62k confirms heavy compression, especially for a detailed subject like this. Check your compression settings when you save your file. Always adjust JPEG compression so that your file size is as large as possible, but within the challenge limit. (200k for this one)

I think if the view was pulled back some, this may have worked a lot better.


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