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Nickelback — "Savin’ Me"
Nickelback — "Savin’ Me"
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Challenge: Song Titles, 2006 (Advanced Editing V*)
Collection: Challenges
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
Location: Harwich Port, MA, USA
Date: Jan 9, 2007
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Still Life, High Dynamic Range (HDR)
Date Uploaded: Jan 9, 2007

 Tone Mapped (not very aggressively at all) from 3 variations of a RAW exposure in Photomatix, exported to CS2.

Skew to adjust tiny off-level top. Clone dust lower right. Crop left and bottom a little bit, to maintain proportions while equalizing gutter right and left edges of image. Clone annoying little piece of leaf truncated by crop.

Sharpened with high pass, hue/sat alters relationship green to aqua, multiply layer, black-to-transparent burn gradient 4 edges, faded layer opacity

Resize, border, save for web

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Be it known by all: regardless of any comments regarding "shoehorning", this image was shot specifically for this title in this challenge. I had no desire to do an overly literal interpretation of anything, I had no desire to join the hordes celebrating "Photograph" by this same band. But I had seen this life saver in this partially-drained pool a week or so ago, and it came to mind.

The image conforms, in every respect, precisely to what I had visualized before I shot it. However, it is NOT staged; everything is as I found it compositionally (if anyone cares). The bright line of luminance where water meets pool side is natural, it hasn't been monkeyed with at all.

Statistics
Place: 29 out of 219
Avg (all users): 6.3031
Avg (commenters): 7.7619
Avg (participants): 6.1429
Avg (non-participants): 6.3776
Views since voting: 1156
Views during voting: 408
Votes: 287
Comments: 26
Favorites: 3 (view)

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AuthorThread
 01/17/2007 06:29:14 AM
I've never heard of Nickelback, and I gather you've never heard them, but this is a clever interpretation of the song title. Well done, Bear.
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 01/17/2007 03:42:04 AM
this is really good bear one of my favourites of yours.
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 01/17/2007 03:26:49 AM
Doesn't strike me for one moment as a 'shoehorned' entry. As others have already said, this is simple and effective. BTW, I had you picked as a big Nickelback fan.
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 01/17/2007 02:37:13 AM
Simplicity at it's finest! Nice finish, R!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/16/2007 11:40:42 PM
This could be an album cover. 8!
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 01/16/2007 07:52:00 PM
Lovely color and light...There is a nice interaction/movement between the numbers and the life preserver.
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 01/16/2007 07:33:24 PM
I really like this, although the pool water is an interesting color...
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 01/15/2007 06:33:07 PM
Beautiful color and lighting, I like the thin white border where it intersects the colors but not so much at the top on the brown, maybe because it's such a tight crop up there. 7
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 01/14/2007 08:58:23 PM
Nice composition and I like the border you made. 8
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 01/13/2007 03:56:12 AM
Nice colours - very serene - Would like to see it without the borders also.
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 01/12/2007 08:07:01 PM
gross water, cool capture! :)
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 01/12/2007 11:30:29 AM
Great concept, well done.
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 01/12/2007 07:46:26 AM
nice composition, though i had cropped off the brown part. frame is kinda distracting
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 01/12/2007 05:21:40 AM
Nice idea to link to the title. The shot is quite neat. I like the lines of colour. A bit of noise though - perhaps smoother tones might have made it more striking.
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 01/11/2007 09:12:49 PM
This is a powerful image - the colors and composition are great!
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 01/11/2007 07:46:13 PM
neat. i dont like the sliver of brown at the top though
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 01/11/2007 05:38:50 PM
Very well done
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 01/11/2007 04:56:12 PM
Water looks murky (sp?). Very neat.
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 01/11/2007 01:54:23 PM
Great light and composition. 8
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 01/11/2007 08:40:55 AM
Dirty pool anyone?? Like this picture, nice green colours. The reflections on the wall from the water give a bit of life to the shot... Well done :)
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 01/11/2007 01:54:13 AM
a very calming image, back to bump up to 9
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 01/10/2007 04:44:53 PM
mabye a little too much green..
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 01/10/2007 04:30:57 PM
I absolutely love this image!! The colors are wonderful and it works very well with the song title. Going in my favs!!
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 01/10/2007 03:11:42 PM
I like!
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 01/10/2007 09:11:04 AM
great job! i like the border
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 01/10/2007 12:56:53 AM
I love this. Simple. 7
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