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Strikeslip


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Challenge: From the Ground Up II (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon PowerShot A95
Location: Toronto
Date: Sep 21, 2005
Aperture: F/6.3
ISO: Auto
Shutter: 1/125 sec
Galleries: Urban, Architecture
Date Uploaded: Sep 21, 2005

 Crop & straighten -> Levels -> increase Hue-Sat -> Resize -> USM.

-0.7 stop

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Post-challenge comments:

Wow, 4th place certainly came as a huge surprise to me this morning!!! It was at 6.2 when I left work at 6pm yesterday. I figured I'd get top 30, maybe. There must have been some mad-bumping going on last night & a pretty low-scoring challenge. I'm sure one happy camper right now! :-D

I'd like to thank Joey Lawrence, for rolling around in the flowers beforehand. It had the positive effects of leaving some good mojo in the shot, plus it placed the flowers just-so. Unfortunate about the one flower on the left he killed. In retrospect, that can be my little piece of death in the shot for kpriest. ;-)

I'd taken a similar shot only days before during one of my lunch-time walks, then the challenge topic came up and I wanted to reshoot. I figured it was OK, since the previous shot only had 34 views, and was edited to a very different style. I hid it as soon as I saw the challenge description.

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I will part with this tidbit of wisdom:
"WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEe-FRIKKEN-YEAH!"

Statistics
Place: 4 out of 326
Avg (all users): 6.5099
Avg (commenters): 7.8333
Avg (participants): 6.2245
Avg (non-participants): 6.7788
Views since voting: 4027
Views during voting: 324
Votes: 202
Comments: 36
Favorites: 4 (view)

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AuthorThread
 07/06/2006 09:44:09 AM
I sometimes think this is how I jlook at the world......
Actually all fun aside, this is really a great shot.....
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 01/03/2006 08:20:52 PM
what a beautiful photograph. living in buffalo i travel to toronto quite a bit so i have much appreciation for it. love it!
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 10/13/2005 12:38:58 PM
Big woo-hooo and congratulations too!!!!
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 10/08/2005 10:13:48 AM
Originally posted by skiprow:
incredible shot, slippy! can't believe i nudged ya out. (and correct me if i'm wrong, but didn't i comment on a similar shot in your portfolio recently? i thought i did, but can't find the comment anywhere...)

Yes, LOL, I re-shot... see the description above. :-) I hid it as soon as the challenge title went up.


Message edited by author 2005-10-08 10:16:08.
 10/08/2005 07:15:13 AM
incredible shot, slippy! can't believe i nudged ya out. (and correct me if i'm wrong, but didn't i comment on a similar shot in your portfolio recently? i thought i did, but can't find the comment anywhere...)
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 10/07/2005 05:28:07 PM
I can't believe you missed the ribbon by .002 points!!! Congrats on the honorable mention!
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 10/07/2005 10:24:00 AM
Whoa Slippy! Breaking bad on us after all! WTG! Congrats dude!! Fantastic shot!
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 10/05/2005 09:20:19 PM
Congrats! Gave it the vote due...10. Great shot! The color, focus, composition are all excellent! The contrast between subjects is perfect! Very Well Done!
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 10/05/2005 09:14:50 PM
Very happy for you, my friend. Congratulations on your top 5 placing with this cool capture.
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 10/05/2005 06:35:59 PM
Congrats on the 4th. This is a really cool image.
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 10/05/2005 10:30:40 AM
Nice job Slippy! Some beautiful colors & great detail! Congrats 4 the photo and your 4th place :)
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 10/05/2005 09:50:41 AM
Congrats on 4th Slippy! Nice image!
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 10/05/2005 05:20:14 AM
WTG Slippy!!!! Great shot! Congrats on your fourth place.
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 10/05/2005 04:42:59 AM
Great photo and so close to a ribbon.
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 10/05/2005 04:04:20 AM
Nice one Slippy
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 10/05/2005 01:55:23 AM
Holy crap, Slippy! Great job! ...now please tell me there's a dead animal head at the top of that thing.
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 10/05/2005 12:46:08 AM
Two thousandths of a point shy! SO close! WTG slippy.
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 10/05/2005 12:44:55 AM
Damn! Sooo close to a ribbon! You were denied 2/1000 of a point :P Congrats buddy! Great image :)
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 10/05/2005 12:19:36 AM
Congrats on the 4th Slippy! Awesome shot!
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 10/05/2005 12:13:51 AM
That was so creative.. congratulations!
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 10/05/2005 12:13:34 AM
Oh so close, Slippy! Great job on this image and big congrats on your 4th place finish!
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 10/05/2005 12:10:06 AM
NICE JOB ON 4th Mr. Slippy!
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 10/05/2005 12:05:55 AM
OKAY
I have rolled in those flowers!!!!!!!!
True story, those are from the garden outside of the skydome down the sidewalk a bit, right?
Way to go slippy! I bet you're secretly hoping someone gets DQ'd?

I got a 4th too. :-)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/03/2005 05:11:14 AM
Nice composition and great colors...9
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 10/02/2005 09:15:12 AM
Liking the vibrant colours a lot. Interesting choice to combine two subjects of looking upwards and it works really well, the flowers are a nice addition as opposed to just having bare sky.
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 10/01/2005 08:28:07 PM
Nice framing and good "from the ground up" in my opinion. The sky is terrific and complementing orange flowers frame it all so well. 9
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 10/01/2005 04:38:36 PM
love the comp
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 10/01/2005 03:26:25 PM
The flowers make tihs a good photo, the sky looks great
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 10/01/2005 12:23:01 PM
This image meets the challenge. Photographiclly - clean, clear, and crisp. Love the orange and blue!
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 09/30/2005 04:56:34 PM
What a colors, what a reach! My favourite up to now.
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 09/29/2005 04:27:53 PM
At frst I thought that the floors were distracting, but they are kind of nice.... although the dead ones distract from the feeling of the picture.
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 09/29/2005 01:32:07 PM
Good idea. The dead blooms are a distraction.
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 09/29/2005 12:57:49 PM
great shot!
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 09/29/2005 10:13:38 AM
Love the flowers around the building....it makes the shot! Great sky color too. 10.
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 09/28/2005 07:41:30 PM
Nice composition of the CN Tower, something different. There seems to be a lot of noise in the sky, perhaps from over saturating the colours?
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 09/28/2005 01:27:41 AM
Pretty damn good composition. The oranges and greens could be a bit more pronounced, perhaps use selective color in photoshop.
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