Procrastination equals score suicide
by SEG

Comment by alb673:
I love it!!
That is for sure some Basic Editing :)

Procrastination equals score suicide
by SEG

Comment by Art Roflmao:
Dang. I liked it the first time, but the third time has soured me. :(

Procrastination equals score suicide
by SEG

Comment by bspurgeon:
Actually, you already shot for this challenge or you wouldn't have a white frame! ;) Maybe it's a fill layer! I hope you see North of 4.

Procrastination equals score suicide
by SEG

Comment by dougi555:
Now that's intesresting, two identical.......... Hmmmmm, still, very funny and I'd never seen this one before, so 7 from me.

Procrastination equals score suicide
by SEG

Comment by heavyj:
DAMNIT...same idea as mine...10

Locascio
by SEG

Comment by bcenu:
Like the idea behind this shot. IMO it needs to be a little darker to add a bit more of an eerie feel to the setting. Nice capture all the same.

Locascio
by SEG

Comment by Ammie:
Nice picture.

Cafe Du Monde - A New Orleans tradition
by SEG

Comment by dougi555:
I know there's nothing you can do about it, but my eyes keep going to the chimney stacks, and the one that is cropped...... Also there's evidence of a halo on the stacks....

Cafe Du Monde - A New Orleans tradition
by SEG

Comment by kenskid:
Looking at this again I would say:

You may want to go back out to that spot with a tripod and just do an HDR on that building w/o the sign in the foreground. The ironwork, the hanging plants, the windows, and the bricks are perfect for this type of shot.

I would use a wider angle on the lens...18mm. Get as much of the building in as possible. Keep the angle on the building about the same...maybe move a little more to your "left" and shoot towards the right.

I live in N.O. - I may take a shot at it myself one day.

Cafe Du Monde - A New Orleans tradition
by SEG

Comment by Yo_Spiff:
Didn't come up for me in voting, but I think I would have given it a 5. I think you did well with the HDR. It's got a lot of good detail and the colors are strong but not overdone. I think where this falls down is in the composition. It does not quite lead my eye to a central subject. My eye wants to go up to the windows, as that is where the lines are leading me, but the flowers and interesting ironwork beneath them are drawing me down there. The end result is my eye wanders around the image a bit. To my perception, it's not to too different from your first entry in some ways.

The angle and colors are similar, and in the earlier shot, my eyes were taken away from the subject by the background that was in competition with it.

Message edited by author 2009-05-09 18:28:38.