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Artful or Awful?
Artful or Awful?
surlybiff


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Grunge (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Location: Old Changi Hospital, Singapore
Date: May 17, 2009
Aperture: 3.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 0.5 sec
Galleries: Architecture, History
Date Uploaded: May 17, 2009

One of the many peeling walls in the old hospital.

The question mark was already there. I try to disturb things as little as possible to preserve the authenticity of these old places.

Three bracketed images converted to HDR in Photomatix, then opened back into Photoshop and blended with one of the original exposures (the first, 'neutral' one).

Cropped slightly
Rotated about 0.5 degrees
Levels and unsharp mask

Statistics
Place: 14 out of 99
Avg (all users): 6.1092
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 6.0278
Avg (non-participants): 6.1304
Views since voting: 1566
Views during voting: 347
Votes: 174
Comments: 10
Favorites: 2 (view)


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AuthorThread
05/28/2009 04:33:23 AM
Lol thanks Bear Music and to everyone who commented.
05/27/2009 11:52:29 AM
Sigh... This was the only 10 I gave; I think it's wonderful. Congrats on top-20 anyway. I'm gonna fave it for a consolation prize :-)
 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/25/2009 07:29:22 PM
I like the creepiness of this one. Very eerie
05/25/2009 03:34:28 PM
i would say both but still a good calendershot 8
05/25/2009 01:28:04 PM
I think the image is asking that itself. Great light and what looks like some subtle PP to enhance it.
05/24/2009 11:59:19 PM
Cool place for a grunge shoot, for sure. It has all the colors and character I'd be looking for to place in the background for the perfect "grunge" shoot.

Definitely “artful” – I think the addition of a "grungy-looking" band in the foreground would win you the blue ribbon in this challenge.
05/23/2009 07:24:45 AM
like the light through the window and green ? mark but a lot of dead space bottom right
05/20/2009 12:22:43 PM
for you ARTFUL. super job on this one.
05/20/2009 09:23:40 AM
Definitely artful!
05/20/2009 04:28:44 AM
artful :D, I just wish you haven't captured the hallway on the left


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