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Challenge: Palindromes (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Emeryville, California, USA
Date: Mar 3, 2012
Aperture: 3.51
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/1002
Galleries: Humorous, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Mar 3, 2012

 One of the "classic" palindromes.

Shot in late afternoon, backlit to over-expose to fade the horizon and bridge, finished them off with some Curves adjustments and a little dodging/burning and cloning to make the island stand out a bit more. Tricky having to model myself -- used the 10-second timer to allow time to prefocus, re-frame, and get into position.

-Tripod, timer, manual mode
-FL 118.2mm (35mm EQ)
-RGB Curve to BG
-Channel-mixer to monochrome mode
-Resize
-USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH = 5
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 232KB

File: Exile_IMG_8338-DPC

Statistics
Place: 72 out of 88
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Avg (commenters): 6.5000
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Votes: 128
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Canon EOS-80D
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 03/26/2012 04:35:18 PM
I like the buttons- and the metal frame is a nice touch. a classic palindrome.(btw, Napolean was Italian!- but you knew that!)
my second comment and i didn't even realize! (SacreBleu!)

Message edited by author 2012-03-26 16:37:38.
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Samsung GX-10
Pentax SMC-F 50mm f/1.7
 03/12/2012 08:45:35 AM
Well framed, I like the hand clutching at the crutch, foreboding. I too had thoughts of Napoleon or Garibaldi.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon EOS-80D
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 03/11/2012 09:53:44 AM
The jacket looks quite Napoleanic.
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Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 03/11/2012 09:05:43 AM
I see you went all the way with the "able" symbolism. I like the composition, putting the action at the edges of the frame.
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Canon EOS-7D Mark II
Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM
 03/06/2012 11:07:01 AM
Love this. The slight overexposure works great. The man on the crutch, a nice touch. Love the shot.
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Canon EOS-6D
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM
 03/05/2012 05:59:02 PM
Wonderful take on this! I couldn't figure out how to shoot that palindrome.

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Canon EOS-1100D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II
 03/05/2012 10:39:37 AM
I like the vantage point of this, the blown highlights spoil it for me a bit though.
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