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Challenge: From A Distance (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Lens: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4.0-5.6 II/III USM
Location: Nacogdoches, TX
Date: Jul 4, 2011
Aperture: 9.0
ISO: 125
Shutter: various
Galleries: Humorous, Photojournalism
Date Uploaded: Jul 5, 2011

 HDR merge from 3 RAWs
Various selective edits including brightening the men and slightly blurring the sky.

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We were driving into Nacogdoches on the 4th and I saw the top man's silhouette against the sun. I yelled to my wife, "Oh my God, it's my distance shot! Pull over!"

You can see the man on the lower rack laughing at me. I have outtakes of them both laughing and waving at my picture taking.

[Jul. 11th, 2011 06:00:55 PM]

I am astounded this picture is coming in below a 6.

Halos are distracting? You look at this image and are distracted by halos?

Nit pick much??

[Jul. 15th, 2011 05:19:47 PM]

I see what people are saying about the halos, but I suppose it's more subtle to me than I thought. Or it wasn't a big deal.
Still think this should finish over 6

[Jul. 15th, 2011 05:22:22 PM]

I added "halos" as a keyword for this image, since obviously that's what it is a picture of.

Post Challenge:
I can't believe this finished so low. Oh well.

Outtakes:

Statistics
Place: 49 out of 99
Avg (all users): 5.7868
Avg (commenters): 6.5714
Avg (participants): 5.8200
Avg (non-participants): 5.7674
Views since voting: 483
Views during voting: 304
Votes: 136
Comments: 9
Favorites: 0

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 07/18/2011 11:43:01 AM
Not that it hasn't already been posted during the challenge, but I thought you might like some further feedback. I'm actually surprised this pulled as high an average as it did. I do like the way the water tower itself looks, but there is a ton of unattractive blotchiness and haloing in the sky. I gave it a 5 and expected this to come in with a high 4 or low 5 average. Unbroken skies can be difficult, and in advanced editing, I almost always edit sky and foreground separately to try and keep this from happening. I live in one of those glass houses, though, and have had my own share of PP induced halo disasters.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/17/2011 07:00:37 PM
I like the bird in the background right. Nice use of this for the challenge. Seems very sharp for telephoto.
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 07/15/2011 05:41:41 PM
OOOOOOOO makes my knees weak! Love your processing and capture!
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 07/15/2011 05:08:44 PM
I like this image and it is one of my higher scoring images but the white patch on the far right edge is a distracting element and could have been removed. It may just be my eyes but the edges appear to be showing signs of halloing.
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 07/13/2011 10:29:05 PM
I really like the processing of this overall. gives a bit more life to what likely could have been a washed out photo. Note however that I'm not fond of the halo effect around the structure.
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 07/11/2011 12:21:46 PM
a little over topazed? halos are distracting.
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 07/11/2011 12:08:20 PM
Cool photo, don't really like the glow/halo around everything.
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 07/11/2011 12:03:36 PM
Like this very much.
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 07/11/2011 02:20:45 AM
Super clarity. Very cool capture.
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