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Tim Burtons Summer Home
Tim Burtons Summer Home
timfythetoo


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Challenge: Free Study XV (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Sigma 18-125mm f/3.5-5.6 DC for Canon
Location: somewhere south of Columbus
Date: Nov 5, 2006
Aperture: 6.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Architecture, Rural
Date Uploaded: Nov 8, 2006

We had a leaders retreat for our church plant at DeerCreek resort south of Columbus. I ended up driving down there a couple of times before the actual weekend to organize details and on the way down I came across this abandoned house and thought immediately that it could make a cool image. On the way home from the retreat Aimee and I stopped at a couple of places to take shots and this was my location. It is a tiny run down house that is being help up by twigs it seems. With my Sigma 18-125 I was just able to get in the tops of the trees into the picture being able to dodge the power lines on the road. I just thought it was a pretty cool location.

I spent close to three hours editing this image. I was shooting for a slightly overprocessed look but still keeping it reasonable. I had to crop it from where it was originally so that I could get the optimum size within a range that looked good downsized and entered as it was massive! This is a different kind of image for me as I dont really do alot of landscape or architectural type shots. I am not sure how well this will do in a FS - hopefully at least a 6. But overall I am very pleased with my end product of an image that I really wanted to take the second I saw my "model". I may go back at different times of year to see what this scene looks like with snow, new leaves, etc.

Processing - RAW conversion twice - once for the house and once for everything else with the usual shadow/highlight contrasts, sharpen, saturation and hue. In PS - belnded the two layers after masking out the house and then levels, saturation, tons of dodging and burning, minor cloning on the path, USM, NI, crop, resize, USM and border.

Statistics
Place: 107 out of 501
Avg (all users): 6.1373
Avg (commenters): 7.3636
Avg (participants): 6.1078
Avg (non-participants): 6.1961
Views since voting: 1145
Views during voting: 214
Votes: 153
Comments: 18
Favorites: 2 (view)


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12/08/2006 09:21:23 AM
You got an 8 from me and I certainly like the photo a lot. Would be proud to have this in my portfolio.
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12/08/2006 03:43:28 AM
Definitely underrated.
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12/08/2006 02:40:51 AM
I love it Tim, and I hope to see a lot more of these type of images, in your portfolio please..... It almost looks like a painting.....
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12/08/2006 01:24:51 AM
Nice job, Tim! The title fits perfectly.
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12/08/2006 12:29:40 AM
love this!
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12/08/2006 12:20:56 AM
What a rip off. I look at the top 10 and this is 107??? COME ON. Love it, Tim. Seriously, a great image.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/07/2006 07:14:07 PM
This is just awesome.....
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12/07/2006 10:11:56 AM
This evokes Burton well. 8
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12/06/2006 01:58:22 PM
Nice title, but you're missing an apostrophe. Don't you hate when people leave comments like this? I do very much like the dead-center composition. May be just a *wee* bit oversharpened in the tree branches but the look kinda fits the picture.
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12/05/2006 06:49:49 AM
Very well composed, I like that the best about this shot but great colors too, 7 from me.
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12/02/2006 05:57:39 PM
Is that true?
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12/02/2006 11:40:21 AM
It is rather amusing. I bet those trees were planted the same time the house was built. Composition works for me. Like the colors. Top 1/3 not interested but at the same time, needed. 7 - good luck in the challenge!
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12/02/2006 02:58:45 AM
ROFLOL! Perfect title for this.
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12/01/2006 10:36:26 AM
awesome one.
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12/01/2006 09:18:02 AM
I like the composition and the over-all mood of this image but the lines of the tree branches appear un-smooth and have a slight halo effect against the lighter sky...perhaps it's oversharpened?
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12/01/2006 09:05:58 AM
I love this. The symmetry works perfectly with the out building to counterbalance it a smidge. The touches of red add to the green and yellow pallette. Perfectly saturated. Awesome title. NICE! 8
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12/01/2006 12:43:16 AM
You know Tim Burton is mine!!!! //www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=420192
Very nice.
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12/01/2006 12:18:02 AM
A little shabby for Tim's budget ;) but you gotta love it, those trees!
A most excellent title. I even like the shot more now. Though titling rarely has an effect on me. But it's a good shot to match.
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