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Downtown Decay
Downtown Decay
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Challenge: Urban Decay (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 70-210mm f/4.0
Location: Wharf St, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Dec 8, 2009
Aperture: 4.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Urban
Date Uploaded: Dec 8, 2009

 This is a photo downtown Victoria, BC... about a 3 minute drive from the Legislative buildings. It's funny how close a completely derilict building can be to the provincial capital. Kind of a like someone getting mugged a block from a police station. Adjusted clarity, saturation, and exposure before exporting to CS4. Then USM and dodged the sky to bring some colour back to it.

Statistics
Place: 39 out of 90
Avg (all users): 5.8012
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 5.6038
Avg (non-participants): 5.8938
Views since voting: 802
Views during voting: 356
Votes: 166
Comments: 12
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/20/2009 06:03:36 PM
Great angle. Love the texture as well.
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 12/19/2009 05:25:02 AM
Beautiful contrasts an textures.. DPC aside. this is really a nice image!
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 12/17/2009 06:58:09 PM
Outstanding perspective.
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 12/17/2009 02:37:48 PM
Beautiful angle and depth!
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 12/17/2009 05:03:58 AM
Love the angle and colours.
Very well caught.
6
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 12/15/2009 11:14:04 PM
nice perspective!
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 12/15/2009 09:48:11 PM
It's taken me a couple of times looking at this to decide whether it's an okay image.....or really special......8.....draw your own conclusion! LOL!!!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/14/2009 10:36:14 PM
A little TLC and this could be a great condo. Good work.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/14/2009 04:01:59 PM
I really like the earth tones of this building and its character. Some negetives for me that bring down my score. 1. a lack of detail that almost looks like post processing, like a noise reduction or something. I realize that could be the subject matter. 2. Since the subject is the building itself I would have liked to seen more of the structure. Particularly at least one entire window surrounded by the bricks. 3. I don't like the large amount of black in the lower left. I can see a little detail there but not enough to add to the photo. 4. There is banding in the sky. 5. Probably most important for me is subject story. Think about the photo as a sentence, what is the main subject? What are the predicates that support the main subject? With all that being said, it ain't a bad photo at all. 6
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 12/14/2009 12:24:27 PM
Nice pov. Good capture that illustrates the theme very well. 7
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 12/14/2009 10:41:53 AM
For me, showing more of the building would have likely bumped the score up a little. No vote, I'm in this one.
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 12/14/2009 07:27:48 AM
good composition here, and good colors too...
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