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Challenge: In the Style of Andreas Gursky (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Lens: Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)
Location: Berkeley, California, USA
Date: Nov 22, 2014
Aperture: 3.19
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/1614
Galleries: Urban, Architecture
Date Uploaded: Nov 23, 2014

 Student housing near the University of California Berkeley campus.

-Handheld, manual mode
-FL 57mm (35m EQ)
-Many distort, perspective, and skew adjustments to straighten
-Separate RGB and Blue Curves to sky and building
-Crop
-Resize
-USM at 16%/64 dia/TH = 0 (applied twice)
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5
-SaveAs JPEG at 98% quality = 668KB

File: SpensBlk_IMG_2926uf-DPCbUSM98

Statistics
Place: 22 out of 41
Avg (all users): 5.5942
Avg (commenters): 5.7500
Avg (participants): 5.4615
Avg (non-participants): 5.6744
Views since voting: 1130
Views during voting: 170
Votes: 69
Comments: 5
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Sony Alpha a6400
Tamron 70-180mm F/2.8 Di III VXD
 11/30/2014 10:14:27 PM
Cool architecture, but either technically lacking or processed with a style I don't feel compliments the photo.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Sigma DP1x
11/30/2014 11:14:53 AM
Good idea. Nicely balanced with the blue sky.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-7D
Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM
 11/28/2014 02:03:24 PM
I like that I'm not quite sure where the horizon is.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM
 11/24/2014 06:30:09 PM
Interesting rectangles, but the image seems strangely processed or just 'off' somehow.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D750
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
 11/24/2014 11:59:52 AM
A worthy subject, but the technical quality of the capture is subpar - lots of noise, etc.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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