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Challenge: Black & White II (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Location: Hamilton,Ontario
Date: Nov 10, 2004
Galleries: Black and White
Date Uploaded: Nov 16, 2004

Converted to Black and White, and framed with Photoshop

Statistics
Place: 473 out of 636
Avg (all users): 4.6711
Avg (commenters): 4.3077
Avg (participants): 4.5637
Avg (non-participants): 4.9043
Views since voting: 769
Views during voting: 370
Votes: 298
Comments: 16
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/23/2004 11:25:14 PM
Too out of focus and the border is too much
11/23/2004 11:28:42 AM
i don't like the frame
11/20/2004 02:09:15 PM
You have started with a small photo and then made it smaller by putting a very large boarder around it. It is hard to see much detail in this.
11/19/2004 10:43:56 PM
I think this would have more appeal for me without the think border..hmm...
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11/19/2004 09:31:37 PM
I'd suggest using a smaller border to make it easier to focus on the photography more than the photoshop. With such a small image it's hard to get a good sense of the details.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
11/19/2004 04:22:39 PM
small photo with quite a large border- unfortunately it won't fare well. Photo appears to have promise...
11/19/2004 05:28:07 AM
a little too small, and a little dark.
11/18/2004 10:47:07 PM
I would like this better if you devoted your space to the image rather than to the border. The basic image is small to start with and the wide border closes it in even further. Hard to tell but there seems to be a focus issue, too.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
11/18/2004 08:50:27 PM
I like what I can see. It's too small and you will suffer for that. The border, however, is a major distraction for me. After all that, I give you a 6. If there were no border and the photo was larger so I could see it beter, maybe an 8 or 9.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
11/18/2004 01:01:12 PM
you only get a maximum of 640 pixels to display your photo...a 35 pixel border eats up about 15% of your viewing area. So regardless of what people think of your border colour etc, you're not giving them a chance to see the image.

The pic itself is not bad. They call those '255 skies' which means overexposure has turned them white and lost all their detail. In an image like this you're best to underexpose a little, then bring the detail up in post processing (WAY easier in advanced editing using the dodge tool).

Another goofy observation about the title: in general people associate north with up, so this train would appear to be going south, in the absence of any other information to identify it. (learned that in a marketing class once :))

Good luck.

P
  Photographer found comment helpful.
11/17/2004 09:12:28 PM
I like the starkness of this shot in B&W. I see a lot of train shots and usually the bright colors are distracting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
11/17/2004 09:10:39 PM
Too small and too hard to see
11/17/2004 02:22:40 PM
border is waaaay too thick....
11/17/2004 07:35:01 AM
The frame is very excessive and frankly, it is drawing much more attention that the photograph itself so it is very hard for me to try and rate this fairly. I probably would have given it a higher mark with a smaller, more neutral frame.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
11/17/2004 02:43:26 AM
the boarder is to thick the shot is to small other than that it is a great image.

note i am not a boarder hater but this one is just too thick
  Photographer found comment helpful.
11/17/2004 12:39:04 AM
The frame is competing with the photo - which is too small to get a good view of detail. The photo seems a bit dark. Nice perspective.
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