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Going Down
Going Down
AmiYuy


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Everyday Objects (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Nikon Coolpix 8700
Location: Parking garage for San Diego Convention Center
Date: Jul 24, 2004
Aperture: F2.8
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/5
Galleries: Interior, Urban
Date Uploaded: Jul 25, 2004

 This happened by accident. I was messing around with my camera in the elevator at the parking garage and took this. Wow. It was perfect, well just about. I tried re-taking it later to get it more centered and to have the lighted number be in the center, but there was an object in the overhead light that messed the whole thing up, so I had to stick with this one.

It's amazing how over-rotating it by like .2 allowed me to make it look like it was centered...

Editing: Rotate, Crop, Color Balance...Color Balance...Color Balance...and Color Balance (seriously I tried about 8 different color "schemes" and uploaded 3 different ones before settling on this), Resize, Sharpen.

Statistics
Place: 130 out of 363
Avg (all users): 5.2075
Avg (commenters): 7.1250
Avg (participants): 5.4231
Avg (non-participants): 5.0000
Views since voting: 1178
Views during voting: 343
Votes: 265
Comments: 13
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 01/09/2005 02:04:09 AM
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Message edited by author 2005-07-12 08:14:04.
 01/01/2005 07:34:30 AM
Lopsided or not, this was a tremendously underrated image. Just found it now, - I really like the green cast here, lighting is brilliant.
 08/16/2004 04:40:14 AM
This is great :)
 08/04/2004 02:36:09 PM
Thanks everyone for your comments! It actually IS straight and not lopsided (try making your window not maximized and meet the sides of it with the doors and with the numbers...straight I say!), it was just hard to get it to even look this even from my original which was off center (I guess it needed to be perspective adjusted but you can't do that in basic editing).

Originally posted by Bassie:
I hope your score isn't "Going Down" Very unique photo.

Yeah...it did, I kept wanting to comment in the forums about how my title was matching my score...although it went up from the last time I'd checked (5.0 Mon evening to 5.2 at the end). But it's still not as high as I'd hoped.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/03/2004 09:03:29 PM
there's something futuristic about this shot... i guess it's the lighting and the metal doors. very nice. 8
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/03/2004 02:37:16 PM
I hope your score isn't "Going Down" Very unique photo.
 08/03/2004 03:48:20 AM
I like it! Great contrast.
 08/01/2004 01:25:20 AM
the hue, blur and slightly off angle really make this shot. the lighting is subtle and deep. I can't say exactly what I could improve on here... almost a Matrix-like feel. Excellent. [8]
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/31/2004 02:15:04 AM
this would be more effective if it was rotated and centered so that it is perfectly symmetrical. and numbers need to be more focused.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/30/2004 02:57:35 AM
Tighter crop?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/29/2004 08:41:05 AM
I like the eerieness of this. was this the original lighting?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/28/2004 11:37:14 PM
This makes me think of the song by Aerosmith... "Going... down?"
 07/28/2004 12:28:11 AM
Should have cropped straighter. Photo is lopsided.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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