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Night At The (Glass) Museum
Night At The (Glass) Museum
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Challenge: Perspective VI (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye
Location: Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington
Date: Feb 5, 2010
Aperture: f16
ISO: 100
Shutter: 10 sec
Galleries: Cityscape, Architecture
Date Uploaded: Feb 9, 2010

Around the backside of the Tacoma Museum of Glass is a reflecting pool. From time to time they feature installations in this pool. I do not know if this was created by Dale Chihuly or not.In the background is the Tacoma Dome and the 705 bridge.

I pulled the raw into Lightroom and adjusted the w/b and slightly on the exposure. In PS I made a 3 pass USM, ran Topaz Adjust contrast preset, cropped,bordered and saved for web.

Coincidentally, I featured the Tacoma Museum of Glass in the Perspective 5 challenge, which at the time netted me a personal best:
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We'll see if this follows suit.....

[Feb. 11th, 2010 02:58:35 PM]

I was expecting a higher score on this but I think some may see it as not in the spirit of the challenge but my camera was sitting on the edge of the pool it would not be the normal viewpoint when standing there

Statistics
Place: 33 out of 163
Avg (all users): 6.1443
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 5.7619
Avg (non-participants): 6.3282
Views since voting: 1256
Views during voting: 333
Votes: 194
Comments: 15
Favorites: 0


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05/28/2014 10:30:27 PM
This is gorgeous.
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05/28/2014 08:17:07 PM
It looks awesome at night as well. I really like it. Great symmetry.
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02/20/2010 01:37:42 PM
Hi, Critique Club here...

I like a lot of things about this image. I like the richness of the blacks, The direction of the glass sculpture and the leading lines of the row of lights. Problem is though that I'm not sure I like them all in the same photograph. To me, there are a lot of elements competing for attention. It's hard for me to follow the sculpture into the picture and not be distracted by the bright lights and lines on the left. Same with the single bright light on the right.

There are a couple issues that stand out for me.
1) as already mentioned, too many strong elements competing with one another.
2) the subject, the glass sculpture, is devoid of detail in some areas. I realize shooting glass is difficult, but since you chose it as your subject matter...
3) the composition could be a little tighter. I played a bit by moving this around on my monitor to see if I could find a stronger composition and I found that (to me) it was stronger if I cropped from the right to the edge of the sculpture to eliminate the bar and the majority of the light on that side. From the bottom just past the blue reflection, which to me is a distraction. From the left just past the first yellow/orange light. That was just to move the end of the glass sculpture a little more off center. The result of the crops above would result in more of a pano crop but I don't think that's bad. Of course the cropping is all artistic vision so I'm just presenting you with something to think about, not what's right or wrong.

Once again, I like the image but these are my opinions about what would make it better for me.
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02/17/2010 01:36:18 PM
i think you should've gotten a better score... should've atleast gotten in the 20's for placement. oh well... :(
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02/17/2010 11:14:34 AM
Originally posted by george917:

Nice location, but a bit busy in some places and very empty in others. Very nice color, and you placed the main elements well. Sweet stars on the lights.

ETA: Why is there a black band on the right? I don't remember that being there before...


yeah i saw that half way thru voting, dont know how i did that, something screwy when i was editing it
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02/16/2010 11:42:02 PM
Nice location, but a bit busy in some places and very empty in others. Very nice color, and you placed the main elements well. Sweet stars on the lights.

ETA: Why is there a black band on the right? I don't remember that being there before...

Message edited by author 2010-02-17 01:08:49.
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02/16/2010 10:06:19 PM
Great reflection shot. Would have liked to see the left side cropped a little tighter. The black bar looks like you have placed a border on that side only, and is a little distracting to me. Top capture all the same.
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02/16/2010 01:16:15 PM
I like this. It's clear and crisp.
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02/16/2010 12:43:48 PM
Nice reflections and interesting glass sculpture. Not much in the way of perspective though imo. 6
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02/14/2010 01:30:55 AM
Love that vivid reflection. 7
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02/13/2010 08:27:42 AM
What an original piece of art. Why don't we have those things over here?
The details are showing very nicely.
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02/12/2010 03:27:37 PM
lovely - the lights seem to be dancing and caught in motion
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02/12/2010 02:02:15 PM
Nice low light capture. The details are still there in the glass and I love the reflection.
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02/10/2010 06:16:02 PM
wow
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02/10/2010 12:48:48 PM
I see perspective all over this image. Beautiful capture of the sculputure
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