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Crooked Smile
Crooked Smile
scarabanza


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Textures III (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ20
Location: New Brighton, Wirral, Merseyside, UK
Date: Jul 19, 2005
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Urban, Macro
Date Uploaded: Jul 19, 2005

 I was trying to recreate a shot I took almost a year ago, but couldn't get what I wanted. After wandering around for a while I found a wonderfully rusted post and took several shots of this 'smile'. To me it's got the feeling of a face being hidden in there - but I'm probably over reacting.

Edited using Gimp 2.0
Layers > Colours > Auto > Stretch HSV
Layers > Colours > Curves, place dots at 66,56 and 189,191
Resize to 616 x 462
Filters > Enhance > USM - Radius 3.0, Amount 0.15, Threshold 0
Save as jpeg

Statistics
Place: 494 out of 614
Avg (all users): 4.5663
Avg (commenters): 4.5000
Avg (participants): 4.4420
Avg (non-participants): 4.7959
Views since voting: 722
Views during voting: 325
Votes: 279
Comments: 2
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/21/2005 08:39:47 PM
If i knew what this was, I'd feel better about giving you a 6... But still the judgement stands... It's well captured.
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Nikon Coolpix 8700
 07/20/2005 11:52:24 PM
More light on the subject would have helped me to like this more. Keep trying!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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