So many thank's for every one that hleped to put my photo in the ribbon corner. I can not put in words what this means to me. thanks for all the comments.
Let me do some explanation about post processing:
The image is from Vasco da Gama bridge, in Lisbon, in the Lisbon side. I was there to take some shoots of a park mad for skateboarders and bikers. It was late in the afternoon and it was a very clowdy day.
The original image was a bit underexposed and I used levels to correct it a bit. But the grass and the sky were's as apealing as I wanted them to be. I selectively selected the sky with magic wand, just the sky above the bridge and ajusted contrast a bit, and enhanced saturation of it. Then selected onlt the grass with the magic wand and copy it to a new layer. As some portio of the bench and the lower bridge was also copyed, I deleted this bits with the eraser tool. Then set the blendig option of the grass layer to linear dodge and ajusted opacity. Resized with bicubic sharper to fit challenge size.
A million thank's to you all.
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Nuno, I am disapointed that your image was DQ'd because of a technicality. I thing it is an outstanding image and deserves the recognition of a ribbon.
A beautiful image..I would be proud of it if I were you..no one can take that away!
Remember the ribbon is virtual...and you REALLY won it..the rest is just technicalities...
Os meus parabens, Nuno.
I'm delighted to see you won a ribbon, which happens to be the logical thing with this wonderful pic.
The bridge leads you to infinty (and beyond!! ;) and the people in the front adds some sense of scale.
A must see when visiting Lisbon for sure!
Parabens nuno uma foto muito bem conseguida dessa nossa bela ponte...
Great shot Nuno. Wonderful bridge this is. a very well won ribbon.Very well composed...
Happy to see us portuguese winning some ribbons hehe.
Keep up the good work.
Congratulations, Nuno. I am delighted to see your name on the ribbon page ... I have admired your stuff ever since your Long Exposure image, which was cruelly under-estimated by the voters. This one is very beautiful and also a little more DPC-friendly! I did not vote, or even look at the entries until now, but this image would have been in my top two choices. Bravo!
Congrats on your well deserved Third Place and your first ribbon. That's a beautiful shot, deep as well as wide. The people and the color of the foreground add a lot to it for me.
The leading line and incredibly deep DOF make this a great picture. Is the horizon (not the grass) level? or is that an optical illusion from the bridge? 9
Beautiful image...superb composition. I do hope you will revisit this site/angle/composition when you have a lil bit more to work with sky wise. Still a lovely photograph. A 9
A nice shot with a good overall composition. The wide angle gives a nice long view to the bridge. I would have liked to have seen a little more definition to the clouds. Not sure if a grad ND might have helped to give a little more details or not. JMO.
Excellent contrast, perfectly chosen black point, and nice framing. If anything, you were betrayed by the drab light that day (or time) but I still like the softness.
I love the simplicity of this photo. Not too cluttered. Great line with the bridge that draws your eye across the image. Nice foreground subjects. Nice placement of the bridge in the frame. Very good job. You'd get a ribbon from me...10.
Well executed shot. The people really define the scale of the whole scene. Only real room for improvement would be for mother nature to provide a better sky but I can't mark you down for that. 8
great lines in this picture. I'm sure a lot of people are going to tell you that. they're right. the people add a lot to this picture as well. while this picture has a lot of merit, I feel like it's lacking a strong focal point. My eye is sort of drawn to the bridge tower, and sort of drawn to the people below it, but neither really grabs me. a version of this with a bit more contrast between the tower and the sky (darker tower, maybe) might be worth seeing.
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