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Lines Leading Nowhere
Lines Leading Nowhere
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Challenge: Leading Lines II (Advanced Editing IV)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S1 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Jun 26, 2005
Aperture: 6.4
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/2000
Galleries: Political
Date Uploaded: Jun 26, 2005

Barbed wire near where I work.

@ Exposure Compensation -2/3
@ RGB Curve
@ Red and Green Curves
@ SaveAs TIFF format
@ Noise Reduction with PictureCooler -- re-save as TIFF
@ Retouch to remove a few reflections or other small oddities
@ Resize for DPC
@ USM at 16%/64 dia/TH=0
@ USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH=5
@ SaveAs JPEG format 8/10 quality setting

Statistics
Place: 253 out of 275
Avg (all users): 4.5504
Avg (commenters): 4.3889
Avg (participants): 4.2720
Avg (non-participants): 4.8584
Views since voting: 4050
Views during voting: 305
Votes: 238
Comments: 19
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07/06/2005 01:11:26 AM
Originally posted by asij:

Good take on the challenge but the pink/purpel outlines on the clouds are bothering me a littel.

I have a red-green form of color-blindness -- one of the most common manifestations is "not noticing" this type of thing.

As for lines leading and leading nowhere ... barbed wire commonly symbolizes confinement, wide-open skies (even if over-saturated) symbolize freedom, and these lines both lead you towards and bar you from that freedom. Maybe I should have added the reflective pause to the title, and called it

Lines Leading ... Nowhere
 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/03/2005 04:54:15 PM
a little too much saturation
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07/03/2005 04:26:54 PM
I feel that in this photo, the lines ARE the subject, but I think that the idea is to use lines in a photo to direct attention to and enhance a subject that is a different part of the photo. My take, anyway. (4)
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07/03/2005 12:37:47 PM
Don't see the leading lines, but interesting shot. A bit overprocessed, and the color highlights on the wire don't work for me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
07/02/2005 11:21:57 PM
And lines leading no where fit in a leading lines challenge by...
TC
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07/02/2005 05:17:55 PM
Ouch...this image has been abused by some manic photoshopper ayh? Harsh color treatment completely ruins the image, and it also needs more creativity in my opinion, for example by way of shallow DOF and another angle
  Photographer found comment helpful.
07/02/2005 01:04:19 PM
I feel that the colour of the of the sky looks a little unnatural. Bold, simple lines in the barbed wire.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
07/01/2005 12:46:57 PM
Good take on the challenge but the pink/purpel outlines on the clouds are bothering me a littel.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
07/01/2005 02:42:41 AM
This doesn't do it for me...the lines don't lead and the background is oversaturated for my taste.
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07/01/2005 12:39:01 AM
i feel the colors are too saturated.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/30/2005 02:21:39 AM
The lines are nice but it appears over sharpened.
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06/30/2005 01:14:35 AM
Lines need to lead somewhere or you miss the spirit of the challenge. Just my opinion.
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06/29/2005 12:07:38 PM
i'd like to see the sky even more out of focus. well done with the composition. 7
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/28/2005 06:23:33 PM
Leading lines or curves generally have two purposes. One is to lead the viewer into the scene. The other is to lead you toward the main subject. It is most effective if they come in from the lower left because that is the natural direction humans visually scan a picture from so are easiest to pick up.

The barbed wire appears to be the main subject itself and does not lead the viewer to any one place in the frame.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/28/2005 01:23:03 AM
colors are too vivid - they look fake - and the pic is a bit pixilated, too... if you don't have neatimage think about getting it (there is a free version)
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06/27/2005 10:58:51 PM
We all know that this is a "Leading Lines" challeng. By just saying "Nowhere" gives a differant perspective, and makes the picture that much more stronger.

nice comp, nice dof, nice lines, blacks good, whites need work, lighing sillouette nice, nice idea, overall good.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/27/2005 03:22:52 PM
Too overprocessed (too much saturation) for my liking.
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06/27/2005 10:35:29 AM
i like how the cursive live moves the eye through the pic. seems a bit over saturated. the spirder web? is a bit distracting. wish there was something to counterbalance the brightness of the main cloud
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/27/2005 12:47:19 AM
Don't care for the grainy harsh edges on the wires. Definately a distraction
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