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Challenge: Rain II (Basic Editing III)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Sep 23, 2006
Aperture: 4.0
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/125
Date Uploaded: Sep 23, 2006

Sun rays through high-drifting sprinkler mist -- no rain around here for a long time ...

-WB = Fluorescent
-RGB Curve
-Resize for DPC
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH = 0
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 6/10 = 130kb

Statistics
Place: 110 out of 128
Avg (all users): 4.6988
Avg (commenters): 5.1429
Avg (participants): 4.6923
Avg (non-participants): 4.7000
Views since voting: 894
Views during voting: 433
Votes: 332
Comments: 9
Favorites: 0


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10/06/2006 12:53:37 PM
A very difficult shot to pull off, so don't feel too bad. The blown sky is one of the issues that would have been quite hard to overcome. I'm not even quite sure how you'd do it. Does the tree seem to you like it's ready to fall to the right? I get that feeling and don't know if it's just me or the crop or what.

The mist probably limited you a bit too. I'm guessing it wasn't falling "down", but rather floating around. Had the drops been more like rain and falling, I would have tried a longer shutter speed to add some motion blur. The horizontal sun rays and vertical rain blurs may have been cool.

Don't sweat it too much. You really did take on a hard, hard shot.

EDIT: after reading the other comments, they did a better job of relating that the mist doesn't quite look like rain and confused people. I was getting at that in my paragraph above...

Message edited by author 2006-10-06 12:54:56.
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10/01/2006 02:48:52 PM
I can't figure out if that is rain in the sun streaks or if it's just grainy from excessive dodging. That's the only place it seems to have that texture. I think it is way overexposed and if anything, most of the right side should have had some burning done if that was allowed in a basic editing challenge at all.
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09/29/2006 02:34:51 PM
The grain is interesting. Don't know if I like it or not. I don't hate it though.
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09/29/2006 11:17:20 AM
how great! sorry, not a helpful comment from me, just some emotions. I really like this photo.
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09/29/2006 09:35:04 AM
Hard to tell is it's rain or noise in this one...
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09/28/2006 10:27:23 PM
too noisy or dusty ?
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09/28/2006 03:22:13 PM
I like the sun rays with the rain it is really interesting.
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09/28/2006 06:48:17 AM
I feel this is a little DNMC for a rain challenge but I still give a 6. I like the grainy feel of the light breaking through the tree
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09/27/2006 06:23:04 PM
Sorry, I cannot perceive rain in this shot. It may be there, it just isn't evident enough. The bottom right is blown and there is a lot of noise (rain?) on the whole right side.
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