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Challenge: Free Study XVI (Advanced Editing V*)
Collection: 2006
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Date: Dec 30, 2006
Aperture: F5.6
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/50
Galleries: Black and White, Photojournalism
Date Uploaded: Dec 31, 2006

There are many different ways to leave your mark on the world...


4.8 because it's not "pretty".


Statistics
Place: 397 out of 488
Avg (all users): 5.0409
Avg (commenters): 6.5000
Avg (participants): 4.9672
Avg (non-participants): 5.2245
Views since voting: 919
Views during voting: 226
Votes: 171
Comments: 8
Favorites: 1 (view)


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01/07/2007 05:44:37 PM
I love this capture for its quirky composition and expansive depth of field, which strips it of the usual selective emphasis on an isolated physical subject. Instead, I feel encouraged to explore the tonal and textural qualities of the entire vista, leaving me to elect my own gusto and ways without the familiar prompt.

Neither can I tell what's behind the delectable poise of contrast by field and edges (sharpening), which appears to offer me a canvas and easel bearing a primitive art made of a vacated oil drum placed vicariously at the edge of some post-industrial idyll.

While this strikes me as hardly the image benefitting from considerations external to itself, I feel it could be improved by balancing tilt (angle) and horizontal distortion discernible in the lines of the brick wall.

I envy the eye that saw a photo here and appreciate the deductive treatment that made it an art.
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01/06/2007 08:14:33 AM
Technically a good shot, but what is the photo telling us? Somewhere between five and six from me.
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01/05/2007 08:32:26 PM
lighting seem a bit flat ... also not the most interesting subject, IMHO
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01/04/2007 01:09:42 PM
I like your composition very much, but there are a couple of things bugging me. One is an out-of-place sense of blurriness about the tank-thing - it may simply be the way it looks, or it may be a processing artefact, but it doesn't seem to belong to the same graphical world as the rest of the composition - especially given such a strong sense of fine detail in the stain itself. Secondly a sense of lens distortion that adds a feeling of precipitousness to the image; I might, myself, have tried a touch of correction on that. But I like the shapes very much. Doesn't quite give me enough - it lacks a real sense of photographic fun, I suppose - to really entrance, but it's many times more interesting/arresting than all these pets, kids and landscapes.
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01/03/2007 02:07:41 PM
interesting composition. IMHO the brick wall does'nt fit with it. Good try.
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01/02/2007 10:37:19 PM
This looks like e301 except that he likes to put something transitory in a photo so it feels like he is capturing something. but you and I both know that you captured something here. 10
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01/02/2007 01:28:34 PM
excellent composition! Love the tones!
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01/01/2007 07:49:31 PM
Reality photography...
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