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Challenge: Faceless (Advanced Editing IV)
Collection: Prints
Camera: Sony DSC-F717
Location: Cannon Beach: Murre Rocks
Date: Jan 23, 2005
Aperture: F2
ISO: 120
Shutter: 1/30
Galleries: Landscape, Seascapes
Date Uploaded: Jan 23, 2005

Not Haystack Rock, but still rocks on God's glorious coastline in Oregon.

Watching a sunset is a normal activity for me, and I sure hope it is for everyone else as well (for two reasons: to meet the challenge, and for people to see that beautiful time of day).

Editing: Brightness and Contrast, Burning, Darken the Silhouette, Neatimage, Size, USM.

Statistics
Place: 6 out of 173
Avg (all users): 6.6104
Avg (commenters): 7.9000
Avg (participants): 6.5625
Avg (non-participants): 6.6444
Views since voting: 2385
Views during voting: 404
Votes: 231
Comments: 21
Favorites: 1 (view)


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02/03/2005 01:45:05 PM
Greetings From the Critique Club!!

Initial impact: ooh those are nice and different colors.

Does it meet the challege? Perfectly. No questions there. I feel that this was a good choice for the faceless challenge.

Focus: The Focus looks good However after looking closely at the shot, It looks as if you have croped to much or lost some detail while downsizing for the challenge. If you look closely at the shoulders and the top of the rocks it looks blocky.

Colors. While i'm sure the unatural looking colors might have hurt your score a little. I love them. They are not colors that cross my screen often. I personaly enjoy somthing different. It also looks to be slightly oversaturated in the brighter area of the sky causing more of a blocky look to your clouds. This to could also have happened while down sizing.

Contrast: I feel that you managed to nail the contrast dead on the sunset and the silhoutte mix perfectly.

Composition and layout: For the most part I feel that your composition works well. I tend to agree with mpalitang the pose the person is in does not seem to flow well with the rest of the shot. But To be honest I can't realy think of what pose would work better. Looking at the sunset seems to be the only one that makes since... ohh well my mind and eyes don't always agree.

Overall: This is a very nice shot. I would probably have scored it fairly high if I had voted in this challenge. I hope it didn't sound like I wash bashing you shot. But hey you placed 6th and that alone should tell you that this isn't a bad shot. I just felt with such a high score I had to realy look to find what might have caused this to miss it's ribbon. (and I realy had to look to find any flaws).

Keep up the wonderfull work and I hope to see more great shots like this one in challenges to come. Good luck

Tristalisk

Message edited by author 2005-02-16 07:29:04.
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01/31/2005 08:53:48 PM
Thomas: Congratulations on your 6th placing with this magical silhoutte.
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01/31/2005 06:12:18 PM
Congratulations on your 6th placing with this stunning image!
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01/31/2005 11:31:34 AM
Beautiful. I really thought this would ribbon for sure.
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01/31/2005 09:30:52 AM
Gorgeous sunset, congrats!
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01/31/2005 08:21:31 AM
awesome shot
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01/31/2005 03:53:37 AM
Congrats on 6th place buddy :)
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01/31/2005 02:26:32 AM
Congrats Zoomy!!! :o)
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01/31/2005 02:15:45 AM
Ah, Zoomdak, I wondered it this was yours. I'm glad to see it on the first page, but surely did think it should ribbon.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/30/2005 08:20:35 PM
Beautiful photo! One of my favorite in the challenge. The colors are just wonderful! Best of Luck!
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01/29/2005 07:39:52 PM
Beautiful.
01/29/2005 02:10:50 AM
one of my favorites because of the color, the ocean.. a bit over sharpened perhaps looking at the person, and little to much contrast, looking at the rocks where a bit more detail could have made this an outstanding pic. 6.
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01/29/2005 01:25:23 AM
Beautiful colors. Nice reflections.
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01/28/2005 05:00:33 PM
Beautiful shot, but the sihouette is not a flattering position, it throws off the balance of the shot.
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01/28/2005 01:20:33 AM
Great sunset, I love the reflection
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01/25/2005 07:52:05 AM
Beautiful.
01/24/2005 07:35:59 PM
I like this picture.. very warm coloring
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01/24/2005 12:21:34 PM
Im my top three pics to win. Great colors, nice reflection and well composed. 9
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01/24/2005 10:15:28 AM
I love this shot. Its a shame about the noise.
This can be cleaned up with neatimage.
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01/24/2005 02:30:28 AM
Are these colours natural? Great feel to it.
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01/24/2005 12:32:39 AM
Absolutely beautiful!


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