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Moderate westerly.
Moderate westerly.
fredandaud


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Wind II (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S9500
Location: Blyth, Northumberland
Date: Oct 28, 2006
Aperture: f9.8
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/375
Date Uploaded: Oct 28, 2006

St Mary's Lighthouse looking south from from Blyth beach
Straightened and cropped
Shadow/highlights
saturation
dodge and burn
Photo filter
Removed seagulls around lighthouse as they appeared as black dots
Sharpened

Statistics
Place: 25 out of 159
Avg (all users): 6.1224
Avg (commenters): 7.5333
Avg (participants): 6.0357
Avg (non-participants): 6.1699
Views since voting: 814
Views during voting: 420
Votes: 237
Comments: 15
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/05/2006 02:31:37 PM
Very pretty, a little too centered, I like the spray from the waves shows its windy day.
11/05/2006 10:44:28 AM
Compositionally this is fascinating. Ignore the foreground elements, and the composition is basically symmetrical, centered subject and centered horizon. But it's really two sub-compositions, with the land/sea horizontally striated into thirds and the sky/lighthouse a bottom-weighted rectangle with the lighthouse centered horizontally. What makes the composition work, in the end, is the lighter clouds at the top, and usually that's a no-no, with images working best with the top darkened to contain the eye and redirect it into the center. But in this case the eye would stop dead at the lighthouse without the luminosity at the top, which causes us to swoop up, as it were.

Probably more than youw anted to hear :-) My only real complaint here is the purplish cast to the sky, which seems a little overdone, but it's not a big deal. Very strong image.
11/04/2006 07:35:51 PM
dramatic composition. 8
11/04/2006 04:52:08 AM
Nice depth layers, posts, colors, clouds, and capture of the waves apparently blown by the wind. Interesting, and I like it. Less central lighthouse would be better.
11/03/2006 08:30:25 AM
Nice composition
11/02/2006 10:31:03 PM
Like the picture. I would rather see this a little closer.
10/31/2006 10:20:24 PM
The mist off the waves would indicate the presence of a brisk breeze. I like the contrast of the orangish sand tones to the gray of the water.
10/31/2006 10:29:38 AM
Lovely offshore wind there. The golden foreground makes the image stand out and gives the stormy day a grandeur. 8.
10/31/2006 05:27:48 AM
Beautiful shot - Has to be in the top 5
10/31/2006 02:30:25 AM
Gorgeous stripes of color!!
10/30/2006 09:06:19 PM
nice composition, colors, etc. 7
10/30/2006 07:47:42 AM
Look like a beautiful day to me, and not that much wind, but I do like the image.....
10/30/2006 02:25:17 AM
nice shot like the waves
10/30/2006 01:38:51 AM
really poweful breeze happening there...really nice image with good composition...
10/30/2006 01:16:02 AM
Really quite a beautiful capture. Good use of the central focal point in the distance. Good luck!


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