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Rural Shack
Rural Shack
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Challenge: Free Study 2007-09 (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Nikon D70s
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
Location: Whitley Gardens, CA
Date: Sep 22, 2007
Aperture: f/14
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Sky, Rural
Date Uploaded: Sep 30, 2007

Shot this using a couple of SB-600s for fill light on the front of the house.

Performed selective color, cloned out the sb-600s and added a vignette. Then added a monochrome channels layer for B&W.

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Place: 72 out of 503
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Avg (commenters): 7.0000
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Views since voting: 1001
Views during voting: 202
Votes: 128
Comments: 14
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/06/2007 09:49:53 AM
I like your photo. I think the use of b&w is effective. I get a sense of lonliness or abandon from your image.
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10/05/2007 05:48:16 PM
Very dramatic! Reminds me of a setting for a horror movie. 9
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10/05/2007 10:26:47 AM
Wow lovely contrast..
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10/04/2007 06:22:40 PM
Super location, love a good wreck. I think you might have been trying to portray more than you did. With two clear subjects in the image, the house and the tree, I think is distracting. The tree strands out more than the house, which I think should have been the bigger focus.

I'm wondering how you'd feel about the image if you cropped about 1/4 of the left and right - the tree would still be in the image, but not all of it and we could concentrate our eyes on the buidling and the light coming through the clouds.
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10/04/2007 03:27:40 PM
There are lots of visual treats in this shot.

I really like the B&W conversion, ground, the shack, the tree, and most of the sky. The only problem for me is the sky directly above the shack.

The sunbeams appear to be drawn on, above a burnt out cloud ?

To be honest these are relatively minor points and it is still a very pleasing picture - the real issue is that the whiteness of the burnt out cloud lifts the eye up and away from where the focal point should be - the shack.

Tone down the cloud, lose the sunbeams and this would be even better
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10/03/2007 11:47:38 AM
Who says you can't get good shots in the middle of the day. Nice shot
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10/02/2007 10:41:49 PM
Well presented and a perfect subject scene for b&w.
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10/02/2007 10:48:22 AM
NICE tones. Really a wonderful composition with the tree to the right. If it weren't there, the shack would just be floating. Great light. Awesome.
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10/02/2007 07:32:34 AM
making the house lighter makes the shot.
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10/02/2007 01:50:20 AM
Crisp image, dramatic sky, maybe a little hot in some areas
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10/01/2007 06:00:04 PM
Great conversion to B&W. Nice clarity.
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10/01/2007 03:02:15 PM
love the high contrast processing you've used here ...
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10/01/2007 02:24:38 PM
Great B&W. I really like the contrast.
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10/01/2007 07:00:51 AM
I love this picture, nothing negative to say.
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