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Texas State Capitol Building
Texas State Capitol Building
yanko


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Architecture III (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
Location: Austin, TX
Date: May 27, 2006
Aperture: f/10
ISO: 100
Shutter: 0.6 seconds
Galleries: Architecture, Black and White
Date Uploaded: May 28, 2006

- Curves
- Neatimage
- Selective Color
- Shadow/Highlights
- Gradient Map
- Rotate
- Crop
- Smart Sharpen
- USM
- Save for Web

Statistics
Place: 14 out of 281
Avg (all users): 6.6579
Avg (commenters): 7.6316
Avg (participants): 6.4952
Avg (non-participants): 6.8588
Views since voting: 2019
Views during voting: 337
Votes: 190
Comments: 37
Favorites: 5 (view)


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06/19/2006 03:33:40 AM
CPTDos, ayos!

Quite a different rendering from other shots of th same subject. Very good, sir.
The duotone and angle WORKS, as far as I'm concerned.
Like your still life entry, this one looks very clean, and crisp. As usual, great clarity and tonality.
It's amazing to watch you progress and steadily improve in this. It's pretty inspiring, actually.
Rock, sir.
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06/16/2006 12:08:23 PM
Greetings from CTP2 Gunnsi
First impression

You are good! Good use of rule of thirds, good focus, good placement, good lighting and nice details. The frame is very good with this picture.
What can you do better
Only thing that comes in mind that it is Poosible that a square crop would have done better.
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06/12/2006 11:43:32 AM
Hi from CPT2!!

The lighting and colours are nice. The comp is interesting:)

Well done on top 20!:)
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06/11/2006 07:17:46 PM
Greetings from your own critique club. Sorry, I was off the track for a while.

First, congratulations Yanko. Waht are you eating lately!!!LOL. Wonderful images in recent challenges. Please share your little secrete with us.

First Impression
Very Nice shot. It's been done is past, but I personally don't care. On this one, you did actually better than some of other similar previous entries.
Composition:
IMO, the composition is the key here. It forces the viewer attention on every corner of the photo.
Subject:
Very nice, perfect for the challenge
Technical (Colour and light):
I really like the duotone on this. Nice hint of green and lighting is spot on.
Improvement:
Can't think of any.
Summary:
Very nice exposure, soory can't think of any possible improvement.

Congratulations, once again and Keep them coming.
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06/07/2006 02:17:14 PM
Congratulations on your top 20 finish, excellent shot!
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06/07/2006 01:16:16 PM
Hello from Álex, CTP MkII

First Impression: WOW. Congrats on your new PB, once again. And on a top 20. Wonderful shot.
Composition: absolutely dynamic, off centered, quite interesting.
Subject: Obviously, great selection for the challenge.
Technical: Lovely tonality (is a duotone or just is so white and blue?). The focus is very good.
Improvement: Sorry, no ideas on this one.
Summary: GRRRRREAT.

Álex
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06/06/2006 01:28:14 PM
Your version of the State Capitol handily beat my version :) I'm not surprised tho because this is spectacular!!! :)

Congratulations on a personal best. ..this one is a wonderful one to have pop up every time anyone looks at your profile :)

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06/05/2006 11:01:47 PM
Hi from ctp2:

Another personal best!! WTG! This is a nice, clean image. The spiralling lines work really well, and I like the contrast. Nice detail. I don't have any suggestions for improvement. Nice job!
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06/05/2006 10:59:08 PM
Hi Richard!

If you keep scoring so damn high, I'm not going to be much help with critiquing!

The thing I really enjoyed most about this entire challenge was how textural so many of the entries were, and this is no exception. The lit portion of the dome is much too bright, and that's about all I can say about this one. Nice work!
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06/05/2006 10:48:49 PM
A clean breath of fresh air to see this rendered in b/w. Beautiful. Congratulations on your top 20 finish.
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06/05/2006 05:12:02 PM
Heh, I just realized this ranked where it should have~ nicely done.
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06/05/2006 03:03:04 PM
Congratulations on your personal best! I like the twist you took with different colors here. I'm sorry, but I just can't accept comments like "I've seen this before" as there are truly only a few photos that you can make and not repeat someone else's work.

Moreover, this one has not been done this way, as both Gordon, myuself, and others that took the same one, did not shift the hues towards chrome.

Keep up the good shooting!

-Serge
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06/05/2006 08:35:22 AM
Stunning shot, keep up the great work!
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06/05/2006 05:18:05 AM
fantastic image and a very succinct concept...surprised that this did not place higher
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06/05/2006 12:34:02 AM
Dude this shot rocks! The use of a great duotone is wonderful! And you also broke the 6.5 Yanko score :P
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/04/2006 11:20:08 PM
Wonderful light and textures!
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06/04/2006 01:41:44 PM
beautiful balance of composition and lighting 8
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06/04/2006 11:08:28 AM
You have made something massive seem very delicate - like lace. I would have been tempted to make the composition symetrical around the diagonal (bottom left to upper right) but perhaps that would be too convetional and the tension between the angles and the curves makes it more dynamic. For me it feels too tight on the right, and the cropping of the curves at various intersections creates too much chaos.
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06/03/2006 01:48:14 AM
Excellent.....
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06/02/2006 03:01:45 PM
Wow! This is gorgeous! I photographed the Texas State Capitol too from a totally different angle. Yours is AWESOME!!! You did such a great job with crisp sharpness. The detail is amazing!
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06/01/2006 05:00:47 PM
That's beautiful... I really like the BW effect.
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06/01/2006 07:57:43 AM
Have I seen this before?
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06/01/2006 03:59:38 AM
Very nice shot!
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06/01/2006 01:45:31 AM
Wow awesome ceiling shot, I love the perspective.
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05/31/2006 10:54:20 PM
Beautiful detail and nicely composed. I really do need to go see this place one of these days.
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05/31/2006 07:51:31 PM
No more exports from this place please. ;-)
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05/30/2006 08:53:53 PM
nicely done
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05/30/2006 08:14:22 PM
This coloring is strange, but very good,the capture of the dome architecture stands out,this gets my top shelf vote....10
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05/30/2006 05:25:09 PM
It's the same one as in Architecture Challenge: //www.dpchallenge.com/challenge_results.php?CHALLENGE_ID=9
05/30/2006 02:38:19 AM
Great angle and wonderfully sharp. Plus it's Texas! Need I say more?
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05/30/2006 01:06:06 AM
Very nice angle on this one, neighbor. I'm only afraid that some of the detail has been lost due to overexposure. That'll burn you (no pun intended).
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05/29/2006 02:59:40 PM
I just love those rotundas/domes that people keep posting in different challenges!!! I wish we had stunning architecture like this where I live. A 10 from me, this is very dramatic, B&W works well.
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05/29/2006 12:50:12 PM
The colours make it look almost chrome!
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05/29/2006 05:21:40 AM
this will be a top 10 shot no doubt, if not a ribbon winner 9
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05/29/2006 12:56:02 AM
A great new color to the capital bulding, love the ivory / silver look. Well done!
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05/29/2006 12:36:37 AM
Oh I love it converted to white/silver. How striking! NICE
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05/29/2006 12:11:27 AM
No fair shooting up into a dome. Oh wait, never mind! :-P
TC
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