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Grainbelt Brewery
Grainbelt Brewery
Kaveran


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Challenge: Silhouettes III (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM II
Location: minneapolis MN
Date: Aug 27, 2006
Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/220 @ f16
Galleries: Cityscape, Architecture
Date Uploaded: Aug 27, 2006

 On my way to breakfast sunday morning and saw a nice Silhouette of the old Grainbelt Brewery in minneapolis MN. Figured id grab a pic and submit it for the challenge

Shot in RAW, 43mm focal length. Slight WB & saturation adjustment in RAW converter, crop, resize and save as jpg.

Statistics
Place: 308 out of 352
Avg (all users): 4.4025
Avg (commenters): 3.3333
Avg (participants): 4.1263
Avg (non-participants): 4.5822
Views since voting: 905
Views during voting: 312
Votes: 241
Comments: 5
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 09/07/2006 11:09:48 AM
Originally posted by Kaveran:
Interesting how you think a little more underexposure would do the trick while others say the image is allready underexposed...

The point is that a silhouette does not show any detail, it should only show the shape, the outline.
What you have here is a photo that is too dark (i.e. underexposed) for a "normal" subject, yet has too much detail to be called a silhouette.

If you were to underexpose this even further, you would then actually HAVE a silhouette, and a pretty interesting one at that!
Canon EOS-50D
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 09/06/2006 12:33:12 AM
Thanks for the insight LoveSpuds. Interesting how you think a little more underexposure would do the trick while others say the image is allready underexposed...**shrug** whats a guy to do?

Anyway, I didnt go out of my way to take this shot, it seemed to fit a silhouette (at least I thought it did) and figured it would work as a 1st challenge for me to get my feet wet and see how the whole voting process etc works.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon EOS-550D Rebel T2i
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 09/02/2006 07:13:43 PM
A nice attempt, but for me the image is very flat. You have a nice, interesting silhouette, but I think you could do with underexposing the shot by another stop or so to get the silhouette darker, and that might hopefully bring out a little more colour in the sky.
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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Tamron SP AF 90mm f/2.8 Di for Canon
 09/01/2006 07:05:30 AM
Cannot find any silhouettes here. It seems more an underexposed subject than a silhouette.
Nikon D2X
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED
 08/31/2006 09:00:52 AM
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