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St Kilda Marina
St Kilda Marina
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Challenge: Boats (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Challenges - 2008
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Date: May 25, 2008
Aperture: f/8.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: High Dynamic Range (HDR)
Date Uploaded: May 25, 2008

Stopped in at St Kilda marina on the way to Sunday dinner... handful of snaps, picked the best of a bad bunch.

PP- HDR (Essential HDR) and crop... that's it.

Statistics
Place: 128 out of 162
Avg (all users): 5.0054
Avg (commenters): 5.9375
Avg (participants): 4.9324
Avg (non-participants): 5.0545
Views since voting: 707
Views during voting: 296
Votes: 184
Comments: 17
Favorites: 0


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06/06/2008 07:20:26 AM
Greetings from the Critique Club -

Just read your description - "best of a bad bunch". LOL - We have all been there for sure. Though I don't think this is as bad as the score you recieved.

You easily met the challenge. The HDR treatment may be a tad heavy on this shot. What I tend to do when I do editing similar to HDR is bump up the blacks a bit afterwards. In this shot everything comes off as almost too pastelly (is that a word). I think if the blacks were a bit more black the image would have popped a bit more.

Really not a horrible shot - just one that didnt reson te with the DPC crowd. We really are a finnicky bunch arent we.

Tim
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/01/2008 08:19:02 PM
It's my impression that boat marinas are a popular subject for painters -- impressionistic and otherwise -- and I think your photo captures that feeling well.
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05/30/2008 10:58:13 PM
The processing gives this a bit of a look that I have done with some of mine, but I don't find it works well with this particular scene.
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05/29/2008 07:19:53 PM
A tad sharper and that thing in the sky cleaned and I'd give it a 10 for sure. As it is, I still like it and I'll go with a mediocre 7.
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05/28/2008 02:33:39 PM
Has a neat south Florida pastel-ish kinda thing going on. Great sky, cool bird.
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05/28/2008 01:20:17 PM
This sort of seems snap-shottish to me. Coloring is bland, lack of focal subject etc.

On a good point, I can see your effort in composition...amount of sky vs. land line.
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05/27/2008 09:33:29 PM
perhaps a bit too much sky here, and focus appears too soft for these subjects.
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05/27/2008 04:09:18 PM
lol thanks to an ex-bf who repaired these babies for a living, I can guess exactly how much $$$ is floating there on the water! 7
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05/26/2008 10:13:12 PM
looks overprocessed...more contrast or darker would have been better...too light i think...
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05/26/2008 08:04:19 PM
Very, very nice... I'm a pushover for this type of processing! 9
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05/26/2008 01:00:23 PM
Nice effect. Like from the 50's. I like the water surface.
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05/26/2008 09:36:05 AM
Nice processing - the only thing that may be overdone is the amount of sky featured.
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05/26/2008 04:27:00 AM
Composition: 5 - Technical: 4 - Creativity: 4 - Appeal: 5 - Challenge: 5 - Overall Calculated Average Score: 5
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05/26/2008 02:56:57 AM
Oh this is nice!
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05/26/2008 01:29:45 AM
i found this picture a little confusing there seems to be no focus point
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05/26/2008 12:56:39 AM
Looks like a postcard
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05/26/2008 12:22:52 AM
has a nice old postcard look about it...nice
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