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Challenge: Where's Waldo? V (Basic Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Sep 13, 2011
Aperture: 8.0
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/101
Galleries: Digital Art, Blur
Date Uploaded: Sep 13, 2011

 Saw this person walking down the sidewalk behind a line of parked cars, got my camera out of the car and took three shots before she went around the corner. Awful exposure conditions (FG/subject in deep shadow, shooting into the sun) necessitated extreme Curves adjustment to bring out subject, but also flattening dark tones into a charcoal-like look, while leaving the bright color in the sky. De-saturated the Blues/Cyans to minimize the prominence of the fringe around the trees.

-Handheld, manual mode
-RGB Curve*
-Hue/Saturation adjustment layer (lighten and desaturate Blues and Cyans)
-Resize
-USM at 16%/64 dia/TH = 0
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 9/10 = 286KB

*RGB Curve Control Points:
(Input=Output):
0 = 0
15 = 50
33 = 96
76 = 96
83 = 81
91 = 61
98 = 71
100 = 100

Resized original:

Post-processing screenshots:


Statistics
Place: 105 out of 108
Avg (all users): 3.6209
Avg (commenters): 5.5714
Avg (participants): 3.5854
Avg (non-participants): 3.6339
Views since voting: 604
Views during voting: 372
Votes: 153
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 09/21/2011 09:28:13 PM
This is awesome.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/20/2011 08:18:14 PM
lower right. interesting shot
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/20/2011 07:33:02 PM
keep trying dont give up everyone makes mistakes i would have liked it to not be edited next time take more time :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/17/2011 08:39:49 AM
I see Waldo.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/14/2011 09:18:35 PM
Can't see Waldo for the HDR
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/14/2011 05:55:09 PM
I can see Waldo. Bad effects.
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 09/14/2011 09:17:32 AM
interesting, aggressive, modern and random- love the colors, a great shot in my book.
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 09/14/2011 12:33:55 AM
Oh dear this is not good, but I guess you will be told.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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