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Mary Jo Becker
Mary Jo Becker
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Challenge: Free Study 2010-04 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-7D
Lens: Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
Location: Houston National Cemetery
Date: Apr 23, 2010
Aperture: f16
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/30
Galleries: Emotive, High Dynamic Range (HDR)
Date Uploaded: Apr 30, 2010

 3 shot HDR at the Houston National Cemetery.

- Imported to Aperture
- Converted to HDR in Photomatrix
- Exported to CS4 to clone out a piece of trash
- In aperture: rotated, cropped and exported

Not sure how this is going to do. My first Free Study. The shot was larger with trees and sky in the background but I just liked this crop for some reason. Want to go back and shoot something like this only using the entire frame.

Hope for at least a 5.

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 05/13/2010 09:46:11 PM
** Critique Club **

Initial Reaction
I like the leading lines

Subject
These types of cemeteries are usually visually appealing due to their leading lines. I think what is lacking here is a strong focal starting point. I think that if you had used the Mary Jo Becker headstone as your starting stone it would have provided that. Or since you plan to shoot again look for one that has flowers on it or a flag by it.

Composition
I think that your choice to crop out the trees and sky was a good one, since it provides us with the vanishing points. Mitch55 had commented that there were too many of them, but I think that if you had that stronger starting point this would have not been so noticeable to him.

Lighting and Color
First I would like to say that I like the fact that your HDR doesn't look like HDR. This is a personal preference of course and I do feel that in some instances it looks cool, but I also feel that it can get out of hand as well. As for lighting, I feel that overall it's a little flat and on the dark side. I don't know if this is a byproduct of the HDR or not since I don't use it enough to know how it effects things. Also, I think you may want to play around with a partial desaturation or a black and white conversion, the yellow/green really draws my eye away from the main subject of the headstones.

In relation to the challenge
Not a bad go at all for your first Free Study challenge! I think if the picture had told us more of a story (starting focal point) it would have done a little better.

If you have any questions about this critique. Please feel free to send me a pm!

Thank you!

Chris
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/04/2010 09:00:42 PM
There are four different points of vanishing perspective, which doesn't work for me - my eyes wander all over the image.
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 05/02/2010 09:58:37 AM
Good job combining the pattern of many gravestones with enough detail on one to remind the viewer that each represents an individual.
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