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Disappearing fence
Disappearing fence
KiwiChris


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Challenge: Vanishing Point (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G5
Location: Lake Ellesmere, Canterbury, New Zealand.
Date: Aug 8, 2004
Aperture: F/8.0
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/319 ?!
Galleries: Landscape
Date Uploaded: Aug 10, 2004

 Hand held shot at Lake Ellesmere, a few k's from home. The lake is quite high at the moment due to some heavy rain (There is no natural outflow for the lake) and so this fence is a bit more underwater than I would have liked. Still I think it shows a vanishing point quite well.

Editing was rotate, crop, scale, saturation curves, USM in the gimp. No border this time, going for minimal :-).

Statistics
Place: 9 out of 245
Avg (all users): 6.5962
Avg (commenters): 7.4545
Avg (participants): 6.3876
Avg (non-participants): 6.7394
Views since voting: 2869
Views during voting: 436
Votes: 317
Comments: 28
Favorites: 5 (view)

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 08/18/2004 07:58:23 AM
Congratualations on a top ten finish. Well deserved. Great shot.
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 08/18/2004 12:13:26 AM
Congratulations on your 9th placing. I loved this image immediately and I am glad it finished in the top 10.
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 08/18/2004 12:07:18 AM
Thanks folks,

My first top 10, and it's all the better for me as it's a 'real' photo, not posed for dpc.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/17/2004 04:59:47 PM
Voted eralier, returning for comments.

meets the challenge and becomes a heathy alternative to the roads and tracks. A beautiful scene to boot with a consistent wonderful blue. Bumping from 5 to 6.
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 08/17/2004 12:29:57 PM
Good shot! Nice catch on the reflection.
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 08/17/2004 11:39:32 AM
love how calm this looks
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 08/16/2004 12:44:18 PM
Excellent composition, awsome colors. This feels like the challenge was made to celebrate this photo and not the photo taken for the challenge. I wish it ribbon. 10 from me.
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 08/15/2004 07:13:31 PM
solid 8
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 08/15/2004 05:51:42 AM
bottom left sticks detract from the simplicity of this shot. Otherwise great.
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 08/14/2004 06:37:50 AM
good
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 08/13/2004 01:21:37 PM
Good eye, nice reflection, excellent complostion
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 08/13/2004 10:21:55 AM
Very nice! I like the reflections. I find the stick in the water a bit distracting though.
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 08/12/2004 04:54:13 PM
I like this shot but wish the log in the lower left corner wasn't there. It's a little distracting but still a nice find. Good luck.
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 08/12/2004 03:47:20 PM
This is a beautifully evocative image. The lonely twisted fence, the expanse of water, the isolated shrubs on the left, just beautiful. I think a few alternative crops might have enhanced it though. I think the submerged stick on lower left is somewhat distracting - but cropping the left would have removed the nice shrubs. Cropping the bottom would have removed the reflection of the foreground post. Ah, what to do. I'd also like to maybe see some levels adjustment to see if the sky could "pop" more. Anyway, beautiful shot! 8.
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 08/12/2004 01:05:18 PM
nice
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 08/12/2004 09:23:10 AM
I can't tell if this is the vanishing point effect, or if the ground is just sloping down under the water. It's a really nice picture, though. 6
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 08/12/2004 08:25:23 AM
I like this a lot. Great idea and very unique. Good job.
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 08/11/2004 05:49:50 PM
excellent photo! the colors are really nice and the shadow/highlights are very good. I like the reflections in the water as well.
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 08/11/2004 12:42:14 PM
Good one.
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 08/11/2004 12:36:34 PM
Simplicity rocks.
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 08/11/2004 12:35:39 PM
Makes me wonder why anyone would put barbed wire on water-bound fenceposts? Really good pic, though.
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 08/11/2004 12:33:57 PM
Good photo. A little too much blue. 7
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 08/11/2004 12:04:02 PM
Calm, I could lose myself looking at this pic long enough!
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 08/11/2004 06:44:58 AM
Excelent setting! Nice reflections on the water! Maybe if the light would have been more dim (sun down) the colours would have been incredible.
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 08/11/2004 02:59:31 AM
ladies and gentelmen - we've got a winner.
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 08/11/2004 01:54:26 AM
incredible colors, awesome dof. just wish the lines leading to the vanishing point were a little stronger. all the same, great shot!
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 08/11/2004 12:34:02 AM
Very nice, just wish there was a bit more contrast.
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 08/11/2004 12:06:29 AM
This would have been much better if you've had cropped the left half of it off, the right half is great, and that half alone would make a simple and very good photo. But not that it's bad as it is.
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