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Crawford's Haven
Crawford's Haven
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Challenge: Free Study 2007-03 (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
Location: Victoria B.C
Date: Mar 21, 2007
Aperture: 10
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/50
Galleries: Emotive, Seascapes
Date Uploaded: Mar 22, 2007

 This is Crawford, a fisherman with more interesting stories than a library. I had gone down to our breakwater when i got home from a trip and decided i needed to get out and went down here(my first time in at least 5 years). and i was taking photos on the breakwater when i saw this gentleman on the side of hte breakwater. i ran as fast and safe as i could to get down there. Explained who i was and that im a local photographer and that he would be perfect for my shot. He happily agreed to be in the photo. after i took some shots i spent over an hour there just talking with him about fishing and how peaceful it is and was out that day. i was going to help him Gaff in a big fish if he caught one but after a while i got the call from my mom telling me its dinner time so i didn't have hte pleasure of helping him catch "the big one". I think this was one of my best photographic expierences of my life and i honestly could care less what this scores, im merely entering this to share with you all my new friend Crawford, and his Haven.

ha·ven (hâ'vən)
n.
A place of refuge or rest; a sanctuary.






simple editing:raw convert, hard contrast boost, increase midtones and highlights. another levels layer with increased midtones then masked out bottem portion of water to keep darker. dodged the land a bit by his feet. and applied neatimage, USM, resized, USM, then Save for web

Statistics
Place: 69 out of 561
Avg (all users): 6.3376
Avg (commenters): 7.1818
Avg (participants): 6.3276
Avg (non-participants): 6.3659
Views since voting: 1179
Views during voting: 246
Votes: 157
Comments: 16
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 04/08/2007 02:43:45 AM
Fantastic shot, Dustin! Great story also. Be sure to hunt this guy down and get him a print. :)
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 04/08/2007 01:15:54 AM
you know, your 2 pictures using the tobacco filter are making me go get one.
Great job!
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 04/08/2007 01:05:16 AM
You know, whenever you see this image in the future you'll remember Craven, the beauty of the morning, smell the sea.........that's wonderful! Lovely story and image.
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 04/08/2007 12:54:02 AM
An excellent shot, great processing, great finish in a very competitive challenge. And an even better story to go with it!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/07/2007 11:47:42 PM
was a 9.. but bumped up to my only 10 of the challenge..
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 04/06/2007 10:26:21 AM
great contre-jour presentation...
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 04/05/2007 07:50:59 AM
The photo and detail are beautiful...
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 04/03/2007 08:50:00 PM
Nice color and perspective, very nice photo.
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 04/03/2007 02:58:25 AM
I really enjoy this photograph. I vote a 10.
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 04/02/2007 10:40:29 PM
great PP, love the sky and the gradual color change in the water
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 04/02/2007 10:23:27 PM
I like this one.....bumping.....
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 04/02/2007 06:39:04 PM
Right then, joke's on me as I now have to plough through 564 images and bump them all (yes, all of them) up. There'll be a third run through for fine tuning. It's day two now and I'm running late, sorry.

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 04/02/2007 04:52:50 PM
Not to fond of post processing, but this is real nice. If this is natural, you did very well.
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 04/01/2007 04:30:47 PM
I like it. Looks like it should be a post card saying wish you were here or gone fishing. Nive.
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 04/01/2007 11:46:06 AM
Very nice colors & composition!
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 04/01/2007 01:46:48 AM
Nice capture - But a little too much filtering for me.
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