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Savannah
Gordon


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Challenge: Impressionism II (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX1
Location: Savannah, Georgia
Date: Sep 5, 2007
Aperture: 3.2
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/200sec
Galleries: Urban, Landscape
Date Uploaded: Sep 4, 2007

 Park in Savannah, Georgia. Manually focused camera.

I love the S curve leading through in the light and how it still has the feel of the park I was in, while being about any park you could ever be in. It stops being a literal record about the place I was, but becomes something about the sense of that place.

Blur also happens to pull down the contrast on a bright sunny day. Shadows merge with highlights and the whole thing falls in to the camera's dynamic range.

Statistics
Place: 204 out of 206
Avg (all users): 3.8712
Avg (commenters): 3.6000
Avg (participants): 3.7692
Avg (non-participants): 4.0185
Views since voting: 1791
Views during voting: 197
Votes: 132
Comments: 19
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 11/27/2007 08:06:59 PM
Maybe there will be a challenge for Foreground and Background Bokeh, and you could try this again.
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 11/10/2007 12:22:06 AM
well i like the colors but its hard when you have nothing to focus on, would like to see the original
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 10/12/2007 09:06:56 PM
If this were a little less out of focus, and not much less, I think it would have really NAILED the Impressionism style of the masters.
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 09/14/2007 11:05:22 PM
Congrats for sticking out the score. I think you should copy your comments from the blur side challenge into your notes here, because they're perfect. They also help me appreciate this.
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 09/14/2007 05:51:47 PM
I know from experience what a long week this must have been for you. But, I also know you'll pull out a blue ribbon for the next challenge from your magician's hat!! :-)
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 09/14/2007 04:30:50 PM
notes from the "blur" side challenge: without noticing you had entered this in Impressionism, the first thought that came to mind is how clearly this would have fit! i am stunned you landed so near the bottom of the pack..the colors & the effect are perfect. With all the "filters effect" griping that's been going on around here, I cannot imagine why you did not score higher.
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 09/14/2007 01:15:49 PM
Like the bokeh in the foreground. After a month and a half of looking at blurry photos this has a feeling of normalcy about it. That shade sure looks inviting, could sit under one of those trees in a second if I were there.
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 09/14/2007 12:30:56 PM
I have no idea why this scored so low, I really like it (I didn't vote). But after looking at it for a couple of minutes, I'm having trouble getting my eyes to focus on other things. ;-)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/14/2007 11:36:36 AM
excellent 19th century sensibility. beautiful colour. no vote.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/14/2007 11:04:56 AM
Well Gordon, I give you full and utter props for sticking it out.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/14/2007 11:04:01 AM
FWIW, in my humble, uneducated, consistently low scoring opinion, *this* shot met the challenge of "impressionism" better than some at the opposite end of the spectrum. Go figure. :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/14/2007 10:38:53 AM
Gordon what are you doing right down here in 205th place?
Nearly a brown ribbon :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/14/2007 12:23:15 AM
Wow. How did this get second to last place?? I voted it a 6. It clearly met the challenge.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/13/2007 04:37:33 PM
A bit blurry for my liking
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 09/09/2007 09:37:10 AM
My feeling about impressionism is that you are able to recognize the subject...it just has a lot of texture and brush strokes. If you are attempting to use camera blur to create the brush stroke...it needs to be in a specific pattern...not just blur. Blur has no texture.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/08/2007 11:17:57 PM
This has the look of "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" minus the people. It is however a bit too blurry for me. Lovely light.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/08/2007 11:20:19 AM
Looks more blurring that impressionistic
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 09/07/2007 05:49:19 PM
Too much blur on this.
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 09/07/2007 02:07:10 PM
I wish I could see the top of the trees
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