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Quaker Meeting House — 1717
Quaker Meeting House — 1717
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Challenge: Straight II (Basic Editing)
Collection: Challenges
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM
Location: Barnstable, MA
Date: Sep 29, 2009
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/500
Date Uploaded: Sep 29, 2009

 You can't find a straighter group of people than the Quakers, and their style of building reflects this: absolutely nothing but straight lines :-)

*****

Pretty much straight from ACR... Ran Topaz Detail "Deep Blue Sky" and then a tad of Topaz Detail "Portrait Smooth" so it wouldn't oversharpen. Darkened the sky progressively by using hue/saturation and balancing cyans and blues separately, worked like a charm; but it didn't need much anyway, it was naturally a gradient as I'm shooting up at a steep angle. This is cropped from a full-facade shot simply because it was too narrow for the details to register at 640 pixels, and the cropped version is much richer. But if I were printing it, I'd be printing full frame and large size, it's wonderful.

I've tried "raking light clapboard shots" before on DPC and they always bombed, wish me luck on this one :-)

Statistics
Place: 23 out of 111
Avg (all users): 5.8733
Avg (commenters): 7.6000
Avg (participants): 5.3548
Avg (non-participants): 6.0084
Views since voting: 949
Views during voting: 225
Votes: 150
Comments: 7
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AuthorThread
 10/07/2009 01:05:08 PM
Great one, and had to laugh at the comment on the people so true :~)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/06/2009 06:01:08 PM
Great use of the lighting to enhance the lines on this.
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 10/03/2009 12:06:32 AM
The colors and the detail are quite simple, yet elegant! Love the colors and the detail. Great choice of perspective. I like this!
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 10/02/2009 08:50:12 PM
I like how one side is lighted up and the other is in shadow.
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 10/02/2009 08:10:41 AM
Love those colors, perfect and clean image, 10
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 09/30/2009 03:18:30 PM
Nice
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 09/30/2009 06:20:34 AM
Very nice.
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