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Blue Door
Blue Door
Sammie


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Challenge: Straight from the Camera (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Lens: Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
Location: Taos, New Mexico
Date: Jul 1, 2006
Aperture: F3.5
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Architecture, Travel
Date Uploaded: Jul 2, 2006

Editing: resize, save for web.

Before I took the picture I set some custom parameters on my camera increasing the sharpening, contrast and saturation.

Wow, it's really easy to NOT edit! I wish it was easier to take good pictures without editing, I'd do it all the time as I don't enjoy the editing part of taking pictures as well as the camera part. It is especially hard not to crop. The view finder just doesn't show exactly what you get - I made sure to NOT get the house number on the curb but it showed up on the picture anyway.

This is a house on one of the little side streets in Taos.

Statistics
Place: 22 out of 389
Avg (all users): 6.5657
Avg (commenters): 7.1765
Avg (participants): 6.5379
Avg (non-participants): 6.6212
Views since voting: 1390
Views during voting: 332
Votes: 198
Comments: 20
Favorites: 3 (view)


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07/10/2006 01:26:07 PM
This shot caught my eye because one of the many shots I took for this challenge was of a blue door (in a very different environment). I'm always attracted to brightly colored doors as subject matter. This had a lot of potential for me. I can't recall what my vote was since for some reason it isn't showing up as red on the comment page.

I wish that you had raised the camera just a tad so as to avoid cropping out the top curve of the wall and showing a bit more of the blue pipe (post?). Instead I find myself distracted by that bit of white (a doormat?) at the bottom. There are some kind of blue numbers that catch my eye.

A scene worth going back to shoot at sundown when the walls would really glow with warmth.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/09/2006 09:25:27 PM
This is a wonderful shot, great job for straight out of camera. Nice vivid colors and exposure. Good luck.
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07/08/2006 01:02:16 AM
Is this in Greece? Very nice.
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07/07/2006 04:26:10 PM
I like this a lot. That burst of blue is wonderful. Very nice choice of subject, and composed perfectly.
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07/07/2006 10:35:21 AM
nice image - I love the blue door - well composed !
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07/07/2006 08:46:47 AM
Love the vibrant blue door...nice selection.
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07/06/2006 09:16:15 PM
wow! what a great color!!
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07/06/2006 10:47:58 AM
excellent work to capture this with just the right light to grab texture and color
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07/04/2006 11:36:30 PM
Great color! I like it. Best so far..
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07/04/2006 01:17:55 PM
I like the way the door pops out of this photo. Good work!
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07/04/2006 12:47:22 PM
This is a terrific "almost"! The color and saturation are lovely, the diffused light works well, but the cropping left and top (especially top, where the arch is truncated) are hurting you.
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07/04/2006 04:33:41 AM
Love this shot. So simple and cute.
That blue just works so well aswell.
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07/03/2006 07:11:02 PM
Nice image! I like the vibrant colors!
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07/03/2006 07:09:05 PM
Very cool shot.
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07/03/2006 05:50:20 PM
Love the blue door it just pops at you wish the top of the door was not cropped
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07/03/2006 05:26:03 PM
i love shots like this..gl 8
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07/03/2006 01:06:15 PM
perfect in camera exposure
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07/03/2006 12:14:26 PM
I like how the bright blue door plays against the beige walls.
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07/03/2006 11:47:17 AM
Great shot. Love the colors
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07/03/2006 09:22:47 AM
Great colors and composition.
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