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abandoned house...
abandoned house...
mbrutus2009


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Abandoned (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D40
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6G IF-ED VR
Location: Lake Worth Florida
Date: Nov 1, 2008
Aperture: 1/250
ISO: 200
Shutter: 8.0
Galleries: Cityscape, Horror
Date Uploaded: Nov 2, 2008

This is a house in my neighborhood that has been abandoned for about a year... I thought I would try out some things on GIMP and this is what I came out with... I don't think I like the end result but I am not the one voting...

hoping score-5.1
estimated score-4.5

Statistics
Place: 147 out of 148
Avg (all users): 3.8559
Avg (commenters): 4.8000
Avg (participants): 3.9375
Avg (non-participants): 3.8000
Views since voting: 1097
Views during voting: 237
Votes: 118
Comments: 6
Favorites: 0


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11/16/2008 01:14:02 AM
Hello from Critique Club :)

Let's take a look at your photo and try to understand why did you get such a low points and last place.

Technically, it is a nice exposed photo with some over exposed front yard.

Composition is nice. I like the way you had house up front and still kept the palm tree in the back and the yard up front to show the abandoncy(!).

Post process, is nicely done. This could be a nice photo for "digital art" challenge. You saw a house, with lots of plants front that tells us it was abandoned. Probably there were some other cracks or broken windows but post process is hiding all that and giving us a clearer image.

I don't know the surrounding of this house, but if you did go back a little more and took a bit more of the house with more plants, and instead of digital work, change the colors a bit faded, and let us see more damage on the house you would not be at last :)

It's a nice photo, it came last because didn't match to challenge subject in my opinion.

I checked your other photos. You do need some practice on finding more interesting and colorful subjects. Everyday and everyone's shot won't do in DPC, you have to be unique. Make sure your focus is correct, contrast and colors are alive... and try to tell stories with your photos, if not be artistic, but not with post process, with your compositions :)

Good luck,

Leo
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/08/2008 10:14:52 PM
House doesn't look terribly abandoned. The wild processing doesn't add much.
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11/05/2008 01:04:33 PM
Great effect here with the grain/overlay thing......looks suitably forlorn. 7
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11/04/2008 07:26:14 PM
Almost looks too neat to be abandoned. I like the painterly editing, particularly what it's done to the windows here. Nice.
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11/03/2008 07:04:11 PM
Meets Challenge:2
Technical:2
Interestingness:1
Creativity:1
TOTAL: 6
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11/03/2008 10:29:41 AM
Very grainy, a lot of detail seems lost? Boring pick aside from that, no oomph, no wow factor, no emotion.
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