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Exposing 510 Maple Lane
Exposing 510 Maple Lane
muur88


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Challenge: Breaking New Ground (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G5
Location: Anytown, USA
Date: Jan 18, 2005
Aperture: 2.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1
Galleries: Family, Emotive
Date Uploaded: Jan 18, 2005

 I think this challenge falls right into my new year's resolution of submitting more pics and getting more 4s.

So this is innovative, at least to me. After I figured out that inverting lenses makes for semi-interesting shots, I began looking for stuff that used it's bleeding off the page kind of feel more effectively.

I settled on this pic because I really liked how the lights crossed over the border created by the lense when I couldn't hold it steady.

Overall, I was going for an uncomfortable feeling of something very wrong in home town usa and I used the wider border to try to add to the feeling of isolation of the family. I made fun of the last artist who described their work like that. Feel free to laugh at me as well...I guess it's just tough being an artist.

Went back to try and grab a crisper 510 with my 20D but it was too dark to get the same effect.

As far as post processing...
Rotated 1 deg ccw
Darkened slightly
Cropped down and bordered
Unsharp mask at about 25%
Bring on the 4s.

Statistics
Place: 48 out of 191
Avg (all users): 5.6416
Avg (commenters): 6.9000
Avg (participants): 5.4896
Avg (non-participants): 5.7034
Views since voting: 1107
Views during voting: 491
Votes: 332
Comments: 13
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AuthorThread
 01/29/2005 02:51:34 PM
I agree, this should of placed higher! It's very cool! A great idea!
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 01/26/2005 06:26:32 PM
I love the effect you've created here and think you chose a great subject to make an eyecatching artistic shot! I think this should have placed much higher!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/22/2005 10:30:19 PM
innovative for sure
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/22/2005 07:17:47 PM
would look better if the door was more centered
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/22/2005 01:35:50 PM
Great shot...great idea
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/21/2005 06:08:08 PM
the effect is there
but the frame.. now..hmm
 01/21/2005 05:42:06 PM
nicely innovative and well-focused
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/21/2005 04:10:31 AM
A nice new technique, but would like to have seen more image less black.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/20/2005 05:14:35 AM
Quite intriguing, almost like a pin-hole effect. Nice balance of colour and tone
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/19/2005 10:30:01 PM
like a pin-hole camera. good
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/19/2005 04:32:47 PM
This is very effective and extremely well done. If we have to get pick, I suppose the glare of the lights, especially the one at 11 o'clock, is rather distracting. If we could spot edit you could get rid of it, but this is a lovely shot anyway. 8
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/19/2005 01:14:17 PM
Love the quirkiness to this photo
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 01/19/2005 11:38:37 AM
Love this, waiting to see how you did that!
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