Photographer’s Notes This was fun. I was on a flight from Seattle to San Francisco. There were neat misty clouds over the mountains near Mt. Shasta. I pulled out my iPhone, snapped the photo, and the rest was editing. What do you think for a 2 Megapixel phone?
The title refers to the 1965 P.F. Sloan song "Eve of Destruction" arguably best recorded by Barry McGuire and the 'answer song' "Dawn of Correction" by The Spokesmen. Many of you are too young to remember and for the rest, it's said, "if you can remember the '60's, you were never there!"
Hear the beginning to Eve of Destruction here.
Post Processing • Import from iPhone
• Reduce Noise (Neat Image)
• Sharpen (Lab Color Method)
• Reduce Noise Further (Neat Image – Masked)
• Hue/Saturation (H/S Layer)
• Correct Color (Curves layer)
• Mid-tone Contrast (Curves Layer)
• Dodge & Burn (Overlay Layer)
• Convert to B&W (Channel Mixer Layer – Reduced Opacity)
• Border (Select & Stroke)
• Resize (Bicubic Sharper)
• Save for Web
Camera Data • iPhone
• 2007/07/31 14:39:14
• Image Size: 1600 x 1200
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Place: 43 out of 128 Avg (all users): 5.8378 Avg (commenters): 6.5000 Avg (participants): 5.6667 Avg (non-participants): 5.9200 Views since voting: 1848 Views during voting: 266 Votes: 148 Comments: 7 Favorites: 0
First off, wow! I really like this shot and I think it´s WAY underrated in the challenge. I still have seen better but this definately would have gotten a very good score from me, I probably would have given out an 8 and I don´t give out many of those per challenge. I would have wanted to see this in the top 10. I really like the processing, the look of the image is great, great tones hues.
That you got it from a cell phone is impressive, although that doesn´t matter much when you resize photos down to web size afterwards, you´d be hard pressed to tell the difference from a phone camera or a DSLR with quality lenses. Still impressive though, so don´t get me wrong, wonder how it looks in full rez.
Anyway, got no real constructive critizism on this photo as I like it pretty much as it is and I don´t really understand the relatively low score, think this should have scored at least a full point higher or a 6.8+.
Possible explanation for the score is that people didn´t think it fit the challenge, or could see no clear cut shadows in the photo or wanted the photo to contain specific shadows like the blue and red ribbon winners, who knows...
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