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A Break in the Clouds
A Break in the Clouds
Keith Maniac


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Beauty (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
Location: Chicago, USA
Date: May 27, 2005
Aperture: f8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/160
Galleries: Cityscape, Urban
Date Uploaded: May 27, 2005

I was a little heavy handed with the dodging, but I think it makes for a more impactful photo. And because it was a partly cloudy day, I think the variations in light/dark are more believable than they otherwise would have been.

Focal length: 17mm

Post processing: crop, selective color to darken blue sky, dodged highlights into foreground and city, cloned out minor distracting elements, neat image, resize, unsharp mask, save for web.


Statistics
Place: 51 out of 255
Avg (all users): 5.9960
Avg (commenters): 7.0833
Avg (participants): 5.8485
Avg (non-participants): 6.1624
Views since voting: 1327
Views during voting: 385
Votes: 249
Comments: 13
Favorites: 0


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03/03/2006 05:31:35 PM
I like this one. I think it shows Chicago nicely. I like your aggressive d/b. Classy editing I think. I like alot of your stuff dude.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/05/2005 02:35:15 PM
The speck under the centre cloud unfortunately drew my attention away from the subject. Bird? Plane?
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06/05/2005 08:00:17 AM
Nice but much too dark in some areas though ....
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06/03/2005 09:58:39 AM
Overall I feel like the composition is good. I feel however that the use of the burn and dodge tool might be over used here. If I'm wrong, killer shot. But I dont think that I am. Some lighting feels awkward in a natural sense. In an artistic sense it could work though.
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06/02/2005 05:21:23 PM
Chicago never looked o good, lighting worked well, bumping up
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06/02/2005 02:59:12 PM
awesome PP and composition..gl 10
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06/01/2005 05:22:56 PM
Very good light and color range, I like it a lot!
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05/31/2005 11:52:41 AM
That is a beautiful sky! Over a beautiful skyline. I love the teeny tiny little ducks you can see meandering around in the grass.
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05/30/2005 02:28:09 PM
wonderful shot, like the glow on some of the buildings.
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05/30/2005 02:18:47 PM
Very dramatic lighting effect. Nice photo.
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05/30/2005 12:57:19 PM
this could be a killer shot if it weren't bumped up a notch too high
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05/30/2005 09:23:18 AM
Pretty cool shot! I guess that this is Chicaco although I have never been there. Anyway, love the colours/contrast/sharpness in this shot and that sky is lovely, a very nice city scape shot and it makes me want to come over for a quick visit in your city. I would however have liked to see more of the right side too, I somewhat feel as if this is only a left part of a photo and you cut half of it away but that is just nitpicking and I love it as it is.
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05/30/2005 12:45:05 AM
There's a lot to absorb in this photo. Very nice job. My only other comment would be that I would have liked to see a little more light in the foreground and that you probably could have smart erased the birds in the clouds. Don't get me wrong, it's a spectacular shot. (9)
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