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Challenge: Metal (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4.0-5.6 II/III USM
Location: Old MacDonald Farm
Date: Jun 18, 2005
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Black and White, Rural
Date Uploaded: Jun 18, 2005

 This is a latch on a chicken coop. Its metal, if anyone needs to ask. They welded a horseshoe to it to make it 'fancy.' Gotta love rural ingenuity. Maybe I belong on a farm.

Anyway, 95% of the work was done in RSE: Highlight and shadow contrast & desaturate. This gives a very high contrast image without adding all the noise and artifacts found in PS.
The 5% in PS was sharpen, brightness, save for web. Its getting difficult to figure out what can be done in PS in Basic Challenges so I am now trying to stick with what I can do in RSE.

The only lens I had with me was the 75-300 so I had to stand back and shoot. At 75mm.

Hope you enjoy, all comments appreciated!

Statistics
Place: 9 out of 508
Avg (all users): 6.4128
Avg (commenters): 7.8571
Avg (participants): 6.3086
Avg (non-participants): 6.5546
Views since voting: 2117
Views during voting: 379
Votes: 281
Comments: 20
Favorites: 7 (view)

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AuthorThread
 12/03/2005 06:59:12 PM
This is one of those well done images that linger in one's third eye. Impeccable rendition wherein the tonal values are use to enhance the subject.
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 09/02/2005 06:24:21 PM
Top notch! Love the contrast. Keep up the good work,
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 06/29/2005 05:25:57 PM
Congrats on your top 10 finish this shot was on my list for the top three...good work!
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 06/29/2005 10:17:33 AM
The best of the close ups. Congratulations on your top Ten finish.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/28/2005 01:48:14 PM
beautiful contrast and sharpness...but you already knew that didn't you ;)
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 06/28/2005 09:09:03 AM
cool
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 06/27/2005 11:03:02 PM
nice treatment
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 06/27/2005 03:25:39 PM
Beautiful black and white tones and very good composition. Interesting shot. 8
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 06/25/2005 12:15:14 AM
Striking pic. It's surreal, almost like a drawing
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 06/24/2005 02:33:31 AM
Awesome! the black and white adds so much
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 06/23/2005 08:21:02 PM
nice b$w with the two metals on wood..I like the overall feel of this one.
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 06/23/2005 03:29:57 PM
my goal is to comment on every photo in this challenge..heres urs..good luck..i love these B&W with all the tones..i have to learn how thats done!
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 06/23/2005 01:13:52 PM
Cool shot. Almost looks like a drawing.
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 06/23/2005 02:54:14 AM
did you take this photo standing a littleto the right of the bolt or have i just reached my limit of metal images for the night?
either way nice textural image.
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 06/22/2005 08:18:46 PM
A little too much contrast...but what do I know, look at my avg score. Still nice though.
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 06/22/2005 06:07:43 PM
I actually said "Wow!" out loud. Beautiful, and great effects in b&w and brightness/contrast.
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 06/22/2005 02:04:14 PM
Stark, yet moving.
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 06/22/2005 11:54:16 AM
i like the contrast and tones
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 06/22/2005 08:27:06 AM
Nice Contrast. Well Done.
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 06/22/2005 08:07:03 AM
God I hope this doesn't get disqualified (dodging/burning) because this is fab-u-lous with a capital F. 10
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