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Challenge: Black & White II (Basic Editing I)
Collection: Prints
Camera: Sony DSC-F717
Location: Cannon Beach, Oregon
Date: Nov 15, 2004
Aperture: F4
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/160 sec
Galleries: Black and White, Seascapes
Date Uploaded: Nov 13, 2004

 Shot this on a "run" I took on the beach. I purposefully brought my camera with me. The run was ok, but as you can see, the photoging was exceptional.

Was going to enter this shot, but decided that I liked this one was better, and thought it would do better. I hope I'm not overusing this beautiful landscape, but I haven't used it in a challenge for over a month now. The color version can be found here.

Editing: Rotate, crop, grayscale, b&c, curves, b&c, curves, crop, mild neat image, b&c, size, usm.

Statistics
Place: 4 out of 636
Avg (all users): 6.6013
Avg (commenters): 7.6061
Avg (participants): 6.5374
Avg (non-participants): 6.7353
Views since voting: 2975
Views during voting: 469
Votes: 316
Comments: 49
Favorites: 10 (view)

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 06/12/2005 06:54:10 PM
This is really a great photograph. I love the foam zig zagging into the background. The softness of the back gives it an ethereal quality. Very well done.
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 02/20/2005 08:24:57 AM
One wonders how many good shots this beach has left in it. But I guess Monet spent the last half his life painting his garden at Giverny. (And years later it still looks good.)

Great shot.
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 12/07/2004 02:11:04 AM
Hehe, you might be overusing the landscape... but this is my favourite of the bunch... nicely done.
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 11/25/2004 01:24:01 AM
Thank you all for your comments and votes. I am quiet happy with the 4th place finish, the score, the %100 =), and the final image. This is a message of God's glory and love transfered through my camera.
 11/24/2004 03:48:11 PM
Congrats on your top 5 finish.
Not sure what it is that I sense a bit wrong, perhaps the far rock being a bit too centered for my tastes.
Great tonality & leading lines here!
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 11/24/2004 11:24:14 AM
Great pic - congrats on your 4th place :)
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 11/24/2004 09:55:26 AM
Congratulations on a wonderful shot and a 4th place.
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 11/24/2004 09:26:51 AM
Congrats on your 4th placing this is a great shot, also love the color version!
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 11/24/2004 08:08:45 AM
Well done Thomas, I idn't get time to vote i the challenge but I like to look through the entries afterwards and, as you did with my entry, I recognised that shoreline as your handywork.

Great lead in lines from the waves, Haystack Rock is a bit central, might have been better compositionaly a bit to the right?

Nice cloud detail and misty shoreline, congratulations.
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 11/24/2004 02:45:41 AM
Zoomy...congrats and big hugs for this beautiful shot! :o)
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 11/24/2004 02:34:59 AM
Hey Zoomers, congrats on 4th place out of 600+! O_O I need to move to Cannon Beach :P
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 11/24/2004 12:50:57 AM
wow this is lovely well done
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 11/24/2004 12:47:59 AM
OK, knock it off! You're not allowed to be this good for at least another 5 years! Congrats on the green. Gotta mark you as a favorite to avoid the rush. ;-)
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 11/24/2004 12:17:19 AM
This deserved top three, bro.
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 11/24/2004 12:06:26 AM
Congratulations on your 4th placing. This is a good showing with so many entries. Your image is lavish and complete in its tonal beauty. very good work.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/23/2004 06:01:51 PM
This is just awesome! I hope this win. cokin /w grad nd? 10 and good luck
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 11/22/2004 08:00:37 PM
My absolute favorite of the challenge :) BOL
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 11/22/2004 10:16:47 AM
There're islands and there are islands. Top tones work well, bottom tones are too gray.
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 11/21/2004 04:14:28 PM
Canon beach in BW...very cool....like the composition of the foam, the mists and the great sky very well done!
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 11/21/2004 02:07:22 PM
top 10 for sure, great work
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 11/21/2004 11:04:21 AM
Great depth of field and compostion
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 11/21/2004 12:20:32 AM
Don't like the symmetry.
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 11/20/2004 07:11:02 PM
Very nice, might be better if the rocks were not centered, good work.
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 11/20/2004 07:08:10 PM
Looks like a Thomas Robinson. Very nice.
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 11/20/2004 05:04:02 PM
Zoomer --- great perspective here! I love how the eye is drawn from the foam all the way to the horizon. Well done ... i'm now going to try to convince my parents to move to Oregon.
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 11/20/2004 01:42:13 PM
I know that rock. I love the view point of this, hope you kept the camera dry.
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 11/20/2004 11:12:05 AM
this is simply wonderful - it's exactly the "palette of grays" they were requesting in the challenge description! 10.

did great, too, i'm so glad!

Message edited by author 2004-11-24 00:19:35.
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 11/20/2004 04:55:41 AM
This is a clear 10! Congratulations!
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 11/19/2004 07:02:08 PM
I really like the curve of that ice. It's a very beautiful picture.
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 11/19/2004 06:50:30 PM
Like the perspective used in this photograph. The wave foam leads the eye to the distant rock. Like the dof. The gray tone fits. Very well done.
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 11/19/2004 05:50:14 PM
nicely done.
 11/19/2004 12:39:45 PM
Good idea with capturing foam. Pitty there is not more contrast in sky.
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 11/19/2004 06:21:27 AM
I think I have seen this place photographed before on this site. This -> www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=108843 is the same location right? Anyway while this is far from being a poor effort it just does look so much better in colour, I gave it a 6.
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 11/18/2004 08:34:31 PM
Nice shot. I think a lttle more contrast might have been better.
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 11/18/2004 01:41:35 PM
Great shot! I have nothing to add. I hope this does well.
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 11/18/2004 12:39:11 PM
light, shade, line, form, composition, balance,atmosphere. If you are not in the top three,, I want an explaination. You must be proud.
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 11/18/2004 04:58:56 AM
That place again...
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 11/18/2004 02:45:30 AM
Nice shot but I know I have seen this Rock show up in at least 4 challenges in different perspectives.
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 11/17/2004 10:07:18 PM
A little more contrast might punch this up.
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 11/17/2004 07:47:02 PM
Another Amazing photograph. I can't wait to find out where this was taken and where you were when you took it. Looks mighty cold
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 11/17/2004 07:26:13 PM
cool
 11/17/2004 06:27:07 PM
very nice. the center composition dose not do it for me. personally I would like to see more black. you controlled the highlights well. 7
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 11/17/2004 03:54:45 PM
lovely shot
 11/17/2004 01:12:16 PM
like the lines in the foreground....maybe could use a lil more contrast though...still i like a lot.. . 7
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 11/17/2004 12:26:09 PM
Simply amazing.
 11/17/2004 11:30:43 AM
Great picture!! I like the white color of the foam, sky and fog contrasted with the sand and hill.
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 11/17/2004 09:07:11 AM
Very nice!
 11/17/2004 03:26:32 AM
Hmmm, I think that I've seen that rock before ;)
Great pic - well done!
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 11/17/2004 01:22:19 AM
sooner or later, you're going to have to find something else to photograph....

i think this would be stronger if the haystack wasn't so centerend.
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