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Silcion Mountain
Silcion Mountain
linda12201


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Industrial (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Sony DSC-F828
Location: Ramsay, Mt.
Date: Nov 24, 2005
Aperture: f/4
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Landscape, Science and Technology
Date Uploaded: Nov 24, 2005

Photo of ASMI Plant at Ramsay, MT taken shortly after daybreak.
Adjustments were
levels
hue/saturation
contrast
smart sharpen

Statistics
Place: 162 out of 223
Avg (all users): 5.0394
Avg (commenters): 5.7500
Avg (participants): 4.5976
Avg (non-participants): 5.2500
Views since voting: 754
Views during voting: 325
Votes: 254
Comments: 6
Favorites: 0


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12/09/2005 06:01:04 PM
Hello from the Critique Club!

I have studied your image and have the following to offer:

Composition/perspective – I think your distance to your subject is pretty good, but there is too much image to support it nicely. Being so far away you lose a lot of the structure detail, but you gain the nice view. Perhaps cropping off the left side of the image and maybe a little off the top before resizing would allow an overall larger image (closer to 640x640). On the right side of the image the buildings are cut off. However, there seems to be a break between the buildings just in front of the white stack. Cropping between the buildings would allow the one to be complete while eliminating the one that isn’t. I am not sure about the grass in the foreground. Perhaps if sharpened a bit more to show more of the detail would help it as an element of the shot. But as is it just seems to take up the bottom of the picture with no real purpose. It is not necessary to show your distance. The focus front to back in the image is done well. But again, a little sharpening would help to define the details of the building.

Color – the colors are very vibrant in this image. But some of the white areas look artificially blue (to the left of the steam, on the hill in the background to the right. Perhaps it is just the way the sun is hitting the snow near those areas making the shadows look that way. The saturation might be a little high – the red staircase for example.

Lighting – natural light, most of the image appears to be in the same light with some areas in shadow. The steam has a large bright spot on it I find a little distracting. The detail though is still present in most of the image – the trees on the hills. Some detail is lost though in the confusion just in front of the plant.

Challenge requirements – for industrial it meets the challenge requirements well.

Overall/my opinion – as stated above I think a different crop may make this a stronger image as well as some sharpening. A pet peeve of mine, but may have hurt you some with the voters – the spelling error in your title. Gives the impression you don’t really care enough about your image to spell the title correctly.


Message edited by HBunch - Fixing CC glitch.
12/09/2005 05:59:18 PM


Message edited by HBunch - fixing cc glitch.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/02/2005 11:09:05 AM
Too noisy and oversaturated for me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
12/01/2005 01:47:26 PM
Good landscape, maybe a degree or two to the right. Like the grass in the foreground, warms it up.
12/01/2005 08:09:11 AM
I LOVE it!
11/30/2005 01:08:43 PM
Very nice. Maybe crop out the upper half of the uninteresting sky.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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