Challenge:Broken (Advanced Editing II) Camera:Nikon D70 Location: Maryborough, Queensland, Australia Date: Dec 10, 2004 Aperture: F29 ISO: 200 Shutter: 1/2500 Galleries:Sky, Black and White Date Uploaded: Dec 10, 2004
After a few days of storms and heavy rain there was a few hours break with heavy dark Sky's and a strong steady wind. I took the opportunity to go looking for the "Break" and "wind" challenge photos.
Found these promotional flags and then had to decide which challenge to enter into, some spot editing of dust fixed that.
NEF Adjustments
Adjustment layers
Levels
Curves (Did nothing really)
Brightness/Contrast
Hue/Saturation (Desat blue as tiny bit of bright blue sky was showing)
Burn layer, Cloud contrast
Clone some dust marks out.
Selection around sun.
Levels
Heal
Flipped horizonlally
Statistics
Place: 50 out of 177 Avg (all users): 5.6212 Avg (commenters): 6.2727 Avg (participants): 5.5670 Avg (non-participants): 5.6733 Views since voting: 1080 Views during voting: 326 Votes: 198 Comments: 14 Favorites: 1 (view)
This is a very striking image that can evoke many thoughts and interpretations to me it seems like a medieval battleground following a large battle. In fact it could possible be a scene from Lord of the Rings.
An image like this can carry the viewer away because of its intrigue and should score well. It will have a lasting impression and those that view because they will search further into the image so your selection for this challenge was excellent.
Silhouettes need to be sharp as possible and this is. The composition is great although I would have been inclined to have the moon a little more right of the flagpole. The treatment you have given the clouds by burning is very good and gives that extra dark gloomy feel that compliments the focal subject.
Overall Bob you have a excellent photograph with some very clever digital darkroom treatment to give a very thought provoking image, great work.
A little too much work on the sky here, I think...Good placement and silhouette, though. With a sky that didn't look like mold (in a literal sense), this would have received an 8 or 9...As is, it gets a 6.
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