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Challenge: Death II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5- 5.6G ED DX
Location: St. Andrew's Cemetary
Date: Jul 28, 2009
Aperture: 11
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 7 seconds
Galleries: Black and White, Horror
Date Uploaded: Jul 28, 2009

This was taken at Andrews cemetary


Aiming to try to use the light available at night for the spookiest shot possible. This shot was actually one of the first ones taken there, a drizzly night, rain ended, some mist available.

Taken @ 50mm, tried to localize the subjects better with a slight crop of the original, omitting some other tombstones. Other editing was basic contrast improvement, and the grayscale conversion.

Statistics
Place: 17 out of 85
Avg (all users): 5.5676
Avg (commenters): 5.5000
Avg (participants): 5.1923
Avg (non-participants): 5.6475
Views since voting: 1027
Views during voting: 270
Votes: 148
Comments: 5
Favorites: 1 (view)


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08/05/2009 07:01:52 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club -

I will start off with the fact that I gave this a 7 - which in a dismal challenge was one of my higher votes. I like the graininess, I like the varied levels of shadow going back. I may have punched it even darker making the front stone almost a true silhouette. It doesnt have anything really standing out to say "WOW" but I felt it stood out well in the challenge.

My biggest issue is the border. You have this dark gloomy image wrapped in a bright white border. I would have probably gone with a black border or no border at all. It is just an odd combo in my eyes.

I figured this would have placed higher. Whatcha gonna do.

Tim
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/02/2009 04:03:37 PM
Nice pic with great ligting..fits black & white..But needs to be sharper and would place cross on left more into the pic slighty right of where it is now. Cross seems out of focus?
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07/30/2009 12:49:32 PM
This is a cool concept. I think the angle of the left stone needs to be adjusted to make the image come together.
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07/29/2009 06:20:53 PM
might have been more dramatic without the border
07/29/2009 11:10:49 AM
white border is too thick in my opinion


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