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Challenge: Free Study 2009-05 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Lens: Sigma 18-125mm f/3.5-5.6 DC for Canon
Location: Prescott Park, Portsmouth, NH
Date: May 3, 2009
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/640
Date Uploaded: May 17, 2009

Photo was taken in mid-day with an overcast. Hand shot the photo while walking around the park.

The original image was slightly crooked, adjusted this through cropping. Adjust contrast, brightness, and exposure to get rid of some darker areas in the photo (with the overcast the photo was somewhat underexposed). Also brought the photo temp down slightly. As a result, the back of the bench brought out a little noise in the photo, so some small noise reduction smoothed it out.

Alone I thought the original was a bit boring and wanted to give some punch to the leather jacket, the wood grain, and the ripples in the water, so I adjusted contrast levels and layered it on top of the original, with about an 80% opacity, since it looked a little over baked.

Originally the top of the photo had parts of the Shipyard visible, which I cropped out in favor of just displaying the water since I felt it distracted from the photo.

Ideally I would have liked the top of the bench to line up flush with the fence, but the ground sloped a bit.

EDIT: Not a shark, but a buoy.

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/07/2009 01:27:28 AM
good atmosphere...
06/07/2009 01:05:20 AM
Whilst others may not like the processing done on this I do and I think it suits the subject well. Nicely done.
06/01/2009 10:50:14 PM
I like the surreal look to this shot...is it HDR? very well done...
06/01/2009 03:42:01 PM
Tell us about the shark.


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