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DSS 44 Processing

DsrtVWDsrtVW Registered Users Posts: 1,991 Major grins
edited February 15, 2010 in The Dgrin Challenges
Going to get a jump on this one. I did make time enough for the last challenge. These are all single shot process have not played with composites yet.
C&C always appreciated.
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    bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited February 11, 2010
    last one
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    Dedalus77Dedalus77 Registered Users Posts: 60 Big grins
    edited February 11, 2010
    Definitely the last one, hands down.
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    JusticeiroJusticeiro Registered Users Posts: 1,177 Major grins
    edited February 11, 2010
    I like #3. Looks interesting, and we know it isn't staged.
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    KevXmanKevXman Registered Users Posts: 945 Major grins
    edited February 11, 2010
    Last one, absolutely!
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    dlplumerdlplumer Registered Users Posts: 8,081 Major grins
    edited February 11, 2010
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    richterslrichtersl Registered Users Posts: 3,322 Major grins
    edited February 11, 2010
    They're all good contenders, but the last one is the one that's going to grab a judge's attention. deal.gif
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    KinkajouKinkajou Registered Users Posts: 1,240 Major grins
    edited February 11, 2010
    KevXman wrote:
    Last one, absolutely!

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    pyroPrints.compyroPrints.com Registered Users Posts: 1,383 Major grins
    edited February 11, 2010
    3 is gorgeous
    4 is also nice
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    lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
    edited February 11, 2010
    Oh my gosh--#4 rocks--it literally looks like a cut out!

    Wow. Nicely done.
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    michswissmichswiss Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,235 Major grins
    edited February 11, 2010
    Last one. Needs a cropping snip from the top, but I can't decide from the left or right. Depends on the emotion you're going for. But to quote Liz, it rocks!
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    sunflowerstudiosunflowerstudio Registered Users Posts: 145 Major grins
    edited February 11, 2010
    I'm the outlier -- #2 caught my attention. It looks escher-esque.
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    DsrtVWDsrtVW Registered Users Posts: 1,991 Major grins
    edited February 11, 2010
    Last one is a sculpture on a hill in the wine country. Adjusted with curves. I wish there were people there that day to add to the Silhouettes theme.
    Thank you all for the feedback.
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    DsrtVWDsrtVW Registered Users Posts: 1,991 Major grins
    edited February 11, 2010
    sunflowerstudio wrote:
    I'm the outlier -- #2 caught my attention. It looks escher-esque.

    I like 2 also but I wish the birds had more separation. I have other shots but they are not overexposed enough to make white birds into silhouettes in Capture NX might have to take them to photo paint
    I it hard to get myself to overexpose the shot toget to the final result needed
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    FlyingginaFlyinggina Registered Users Posts: 2,639 Major grins
    edited February 11, 2010
    All amazing bowdown.gifbowdown.gifbowdown.gif but I agree that #4 is the one you should enter.

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    nightpixelsnightpixels Registered Users Posts: 536 Major grins
    edited February 11, 2010
    Hi Chris,

    The last one has a nice composition but it is extremely noisy (Specially the sky ... for all the pictures for that matter) which works against the picture. With Silhouettes, noise usually should not be an issue mainly because you shoot with a fast shutter speed while keeping the ISO fairly low. To me a great silhouette picture, if shot at the right time of the day, should be virtually noise-free unless the Photographer has intentionally introduced noise to send a specific message. Was the noise introduced during the post-processing? I just looked at your EXIFs and the weird thing I noticed was the info for ISO was stripped out but not for the rest of the specs . How did that happen, you know? Also, the time of the day you shot this at was around 2:30 PM which is odd to see a sky like this, so I assume a fair amount of pp went into this which caused the noise? I am just curious :)
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    sunflowerstudiosunflowerstudio Registered Users Posts: 145 Major grins
    edited February 11, 2010
    Is the statue in #4 actually a cutout (i.e. a silhouette?) or is it silhouetted because of the way you've shot the picture?

    I've been wonderinga bout this 'cause I took some pictures yesterday of silhouettes cut into a construction barrier (at a mall; they'd decorated the barrier with carved out forms). I've been trying to figure out if a picture of that work is mine, or that of the artist who made the barrier. It'll be a judgment call, I think (it's tough to tell whether it's the dancer or the photographer who makes dance photography wonderful, and I think, in most cases, it's both).

    I for one think we're going to get bored of dark silhouettes of people against a sunset/colorful sky. But, maybe the short 2 week window will mean that not everyone has an opportunity to get that shot (and of course, a spectacular one will still stand above the crowd).
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    JAGJAG Super Moderators Posts: 9,088 moderator
    edited February 11, 2010
    Nice set here. Personally number 4 has a strong content for possibilities. I have to agree with nightpixels that the noise is bit too much. I wonder if you were able to:
    1. Crop the image to offset the siloette to the left. This in my opinion make a stronger composition.
    2. isolate your sky from the siloette and run a noise removal filter to soften the sky. This will hopefully eliminate the noise issue plus make the picture have more dof.
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    DsrtVWDsrtVW Registered Users Posts: 1,991 Major grins
    edited February 11, 2010
    Hi Allen
    I went and looked in the metedata. The IOS should have been at 200 but it looks like I went over to what Nikon calls L03 which is 1/3stop under 200 I think. I usually do not go below 200. It is interesting it does not show up.

    It was a cloud day with more light on the horizon. The only post I did was curve adjustment compress the tone range and then some curve and color balance adjustment. All were quick adjustments to get feedback
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    Curves Excused the dirty sensor. Sometimes you find out the hard way.

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    I tried it with different clouds too
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    JAGJAG Super Moderators Posts: 9,088 moderator
    edited February 12, 2010
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    The clouds in this one are most convincing to the image! I really like it!thumb.gifthumb.gifthumb.gif
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    richterslrichtersl Registered Users Posts: 3,322 Major grins
    edited February 12, 2010
    I agree with Joyce regarding the clouds. thumb.gif

    Have you tried a vertical crop on this?
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    AndManAndMan Registered Users Posts: 1,252 Major grins
    edited February 12, 2010
    richtersl wrote:
    I agree with Joyce regarding the clouds. thumb.gif

    Have you tried a vertical crop on this?
    +1
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    liflanderliflander Registered Users Posts: 339 Major grins
    edited February 13, 2010
    These are all great shots! I think you could easily go with one of the bird shots (ie #1) and have a strong entry. Nice work on the pp to make these really stand out!
    Cheers,
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    ic4uic4u Registered Users Posts: 1,455 Major grins
    edited February 13, 2010
    JAG wrote:

    The clouds in this one are most convincing to the image! I really like it!thumb.gifthumb.gifthumb.gif

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    nightpixelsnightpixels Registered Users Posts: 536 Major grins
    edited February 15, 2010
    Yup, what JAG said!
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