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Scaffolded City Hall Sunset
Scaffolded City Hall Sunset
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Challenge: Free Study 2007-11 (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Nikon D70s
Lens: Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO DG Macro for Nikon
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Date: Nov 7, 2007
Aperture: f/ 8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/350 sec.
Galleries: Cityscape, Architecture
Date Uploaded: Nov 30, 2007

 Hmmmm.....Well I shot like s**t in November. I was distracted by something...now what could it have been. OH yes! Today was my last day of work after a little more than 10 and half years. I left in tears. Still don't know why....guess it was the relationships you form and the people you got to know, cause the job had turned into a tedious morass of crap. Oh and there's that I don't know WTF I'm going to do next! Not a clue. I've been here twice before and the one thing I hope I do not do is to take the first thing that comes along like I did before. So we'll deal with it in due course.

Well, sorry about that but I had to put it somewhere. I was standing outside in the late afternoon in early November. I saw some interesting sunset color on big billowy clouds by City Hall. I crossed the street and got a better look and went back in to get my camera. I got back outside and took several images. This was one of the first I took. It was a little underexposed on the the tower but the sky looked good and there was enough light left on the hall so I processed it and this is was I got. No flowers, for once, or the dreaded net water shots. So I hope you like it. Thanks.

Post: Converted from Raw in PSElements 3.0. I don't remember exactly everything else. I'm sure layer adjustments for levels, brightness/contrast and hue/saturation were done, they usually are. I probably used Power Retouche Dynamic Range Compressor. I know there was spot editing of dust in the background. I processed the hall separately from the clouds by using a layer mask. Then I did another mask of the hall to bring out the darker areas. I know I use NeatImage on the background and not the hall. Sharpened. Resize. Sharpen.

Statistics
Place: 178 out of 393
Avg (all users): 5.7597
Avg (commenters): 6.2500
Avg (participants): 5.6577
Avg (non-participants): 6.0233
Views since voting: 1023
Views during voting: 201
Votes: 154
Comments: 8
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 12/09/2007 01:00:31 PM
Bummer about the job, but enjoy the hiatus. What comes next is an adventure - always is! I like the shot because it's real - not overdone, not oversaturated. And don't not do flowers unless you don't want to, because you have a rare gift for portraying emotion with flowers - lots of people try, but for some reason, you pull it off better than anyone. You could skip the net shots, though. :-)
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 12/08/2007 12:28:57 AM
Robert, you got a similar score to a free study entry I had last fall, and I think for similar reasons: it seems to be tilted to the right (might be an optical illusion), the blue sky is pretty noisy, and it just didn't hold my interest that much. I also agree with L2 about not getting a story from it (not that my entry has any story). So between my earlier entry of a tower against a sky and your glass shots, we switched places this time.

As for your work life, I'm glad you got out of a bad situation and I wish you luck. Come down to DC during your hiatus and we'll go shooting together. :)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/07/2007 12:35:12 AM
Alas, poor Billy Penn penned. It happens to dabblers in real estate. Very nice lighting.
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 12/04/2007 08:55:59 AM
nice soft light, intersting catch of the last beams hitting the tower.
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 12/02/2007 08:27:03 PM
I like how the light is coming through the clock making the left clock brighter then the rest.
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 12/02/2007 12:34:36 PM
Beautiful subject, too bad about the scaffolding. I'm just not sure why the scaffolding is important to the scene - it doesn't seem to be part of a "story" that you are trying to tell with the image. With that said, the exposure is nailed, the sharpness is right on, and technically the image is pretty spot-on. As a presentation of art, I'm just not getting the story piece of it. Still, I'm impressed with the detail and sharpness so it's getting a good score. :)
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 12/02/2007 06:33:55 AM
Odd title, but a stellar image. 7
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 12/01/2007 12:04:16 AM
neat luminosity in the clock face, the lighting seems strange here to me though. awesome cloudy background
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