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Challenge: Wind II (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0L USM
Location: Boston, MA
Date: Oct 29, 2006
Aperture: f32 (200mm)
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/6
Galleries: Abstract, Landscape
Date Uploaded: Oct 29, 2006

 I was aiming at that ephemeral sort of deal where the leaves were hardly there and the grass was sharp and in focus.

This is far from the vision but at ISO100 & f32, there was no place to go; 1/6 was the slowest I could get in this light [have to think about some ND filters :-)].

The wind was very strong (I refused to go the leaf blower path that I am sure a lot will have taken) but the leaves stayed stuck pretty well :-/. I would have used my street but the wind during the night has blown all the leaves to Canada somewhere :-)

As to the post processing... Same as usual for me.. Convert from RAW via RSP; a little curves, some saturation, bit of sharpening and guessed output as close to 150 as I can get in RSP [Yeah, I know "advanced" editing could be used]. Let me guess - 10th percentile here I come :-/

Statistics
Place: 153 out of 159
Avg (all users): 4.1931
Avg (commenters): 4.4286
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Views since voting: 816
Views during voting: 327
Votes: 233
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 11/12/2006 03:32:13 PM
:: Critique Club ::

Well I will start with what I saw technically on this photo. First I couldn't really find a subject of the photo my eyes just kinda wandered around till I got board. Also the colors are really washed out. One thing I did like was the motion blur on the few leaves that were blowing. this was a good concept but you need to find a way to give it more of a subject like having the leaves in the foreground blowing or something like that. It also looks like you didn't put a lot of effort into the photo.

Sorry I don't have much more to say I just could find a subject and the photo didn't appeal to me at all. Keep trying though it will come.

Message edited by author 2006-11-12 15:33:36.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/02/2006 03:02:26 PM
the motion blur on the leaf is nice
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 11/01/2006 06:37:46 PM
Nice natural colors. Very refreshing to see. I would imagine that this won't score very well, though. Meets the challenge...but not very interesting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/31/2006 08:53:52 PM
Good job of catching some of the leaves in motion, but the photograph, to me, needs a bit more to it than just the leaves.
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 10/31/2006 05:51:59 AM
Nice little game of "Leaf Frog" there! :)
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 10/30/2006 06:28:50 PM
Aren't those suckers hard to photograph? Sorry, I don't feel movement in this picture. :(
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 10/30/2006 11:27:06 AM
This picture does not come off well on the screen. I can't tell which leaves are in motion and which ones are still.
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 10/30/2006 07:34:43 AM
Not appealing sorry


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