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Challenge: Postcard III (Advanced Editing VII*)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Berkeley, California, USA
Date: Apr 4, 2009
Aperture: 8.0
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/318
Galleries: Architecture, Travel
Date Uploaded: Apr 4, 2009

Fiat Lux (Latin for "Let there be light") is the motto of the University of California, Berkeley. Sather Tower, commonly known as The Campanile, was donated by Jane K. Sather, and houses a carillon currently comprised of 61 bells, covering a range of five octaves.

The print version has a border and caption, but no type within the photo area.

-Handheld, Manual mode
-Noise-reduction with PictureCooler
-RGB Curve
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH = 0
-Added type layers (Fonts: Reporter Two, TeamMT, TimesNewRomanMT_ExtraBold)
-Flatten image
-Crop from right to (USPS) standard 4.25" x 6" aspect ratio
-Resize
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice)
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 8/10 = 192KB

Resized original:

Statistics
Place: 131 out of 163
Avg (all users): 5.2250
Avg (commenters): 5.2857
Avg (participants): 5.2281
Avg (non-participants): 5.2233
Views since voting: 1004
Views during voting: 275
Votes: 160
Comments: 7
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04/09/2009 01:49:15 PM
Great font and a well chose subject , but this is not exactly the most interesting view of the Campanile. It is well lit, but the roof top is distracting and it seems to float out of any defined place.
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04/08/2009 09:15:33 AM
Nice shot IMO the bottom needed to be croped.
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04/07/2009 12:56:45 PM
lower roof is a distraction
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04/07/2009 01:06:12 AM
the building is a little bit soft and overexposed and the roof distracts me but i looove your lettering
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04/06/2009 04:52:39 PM
Maybe its just me, but the tower looks like it's leaning to the left. Otherwise, its a nice classic university postcard image.
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04/06/2009 09:31:22 AM
Colors are a little bland and I am not familiar with this place but I gave it a 6 for the architecture. I love the big clock!
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04/06/2009 07:30:00 AM
The image is tilted to the left and the logo doesn't help that any. From a technical standpoint, the image is properly focused, but it's a tad oversharpened - you can see the halo on the right side of the clock tower. However, it is iconic of UC-Berkely and that's what counts.
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