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Marcus Book Stores - 50th Anniversary
Marcus Book Stores - 50th Anniversary
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Challenge: Window Shopping II (Advanced Editing VII*)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Dec 14, 2010
Aperture: 3.19
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/40
Galleries: Urban, Advertisement
Date Uploaded: Dec 14, 2010

 Not my store, but rather named in honor of Marcus Garvey, this store specializes in "books by and about Black people everywhere."

-Handheld, manual mode
-Made mask for sign
-RGB curve through mask to lighten sign
-A little cloning/touch-up on sign
-Noise-reduction with PictureCooler
-RGB Curve
-RGB Curve through gradient mask
-Increased Saturation
-Rotate 0.26°CW
-Crop
-Resize
-USM at 16%/64 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice)
-Clone out a few spots and scratches on the glass
-Enlarge Canvas to make border
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 8/10 = 294KB

Statistics
Place: 28 out of 52
Avg (all users): 5.4185
Avg (commenters): 5.5000
Avg (participants): 5.0370
Avg (non-participants): 5.4841
Views since voting: 850
Views during voting: 330
Votes: 184
Comments: 2
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/17/2010 02:14:52 AM
A well taken photograph that just lacks the little 'extra' element to make this picture pop like the some of this challenges frontrunners. 6
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 12/15/2010 08:09:56 PM
Definitely meets the challenge, but the photo doesn't have a real pop to me.
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