Image made Sunday early afternoon, against the sun (we had a bit of sun on Sunday, finally!!!). This is another view of the Warfield operations of Teck-Cominco, this is the fertilizer plant (byproducts of zinc production).
Post-processing in PSP9, all on one layer:
Straighten
Crop
Clarify filter twice at 5 (strong)
Adjust colour balance to browns
Adjust curves to lighten
Adjust levels to lighten a bit more
Clarify filter again
Colour adjust HSL to add reds/yellows
Resize
Digital camera noise removal (at 40)
Auto sharpen
Added 6px black border
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Place: 2 out of 223 Avg (all users): 7.0681 Avg (commenters): 8.2857 Avg (participants): 6.6667 Avg (non-participants): 7.2787 Views since voting: 10885 Views during voting: 491 Votes: 279 Comments: 68 Favorites: 27 (view)
I remember seeing this ribboning in the Industrial Challenge but never got around to commenting on it. I really love those deep rich orange and chocolate browns in this photo. It is those hues that really make the image visually appealing - eye candy if you will. Very well done image to make the stereotypical dirty & cold steel of the industrial age look so beautiful.
I think this should of have gotten first place. I liked this one
the most out of all the shots. (Not that first place isn't any good it's a great photograph) I just thought this one had more flare it it.
Nice Shot.
Congrats on spreading your name all over the home page with another great shot! So Zoomdak has a beach, DrJOnes has a model and you have a... fertilizer plant? ;-)
But my fertilizer plant is a lot bigger than DrJOnes model :)
Congrats on spreading your name all over the home page with another great shot! So Zoomdak has a beach, DrJOnes has a model and you have a... fertilizer plant? ;-)
Since the crop you chose focuses so much on the sky, I probably would have picked a title like, "The Cloud Factory," but "Chocolate" obviously worked, and what could be more appealing than chocolate? I probably would have used a subtle inline on that dark border, too. I gotta find SOMETHING to criticize, right?
I like this colored version more. The biggest asset of this picture is the composition. Very graphic. You have a good technique in composing your shots.
Guess what? This photo was made 1 minute and 16 seconds after the other one above, and about a block down the road (I was in my Subaru for both, too lazy to get out).
Are you sure this was in the right challenge? LOL! Great shot, Ursula! Wow! Love how the dark smoke all but obsures the sun. Many congrats on another Red!
Ursula - of course! This photo could only be yours. I knew you wouldn't disappoint in this challenge! Great processing - a wonderful effect and all the more interesting because I feel this is much darker than most of your imagery.
Good effective image. Clouds and smoke works very well here. At first I thought the horizon wasn't horizontal, but wrong after viewing the accurate vertical chimney. Very good image
7 - Good effect and lighting. Criticism; apologies if I am wrong, but this seems like it needs rotation/straightening. Toning is good, but it just seems 'tilted'. 2nd look - looks like it might have a pier/jetty/causeway(?) going out into water, but it is barely discernable, still, looks slightly 'tilted'.
Great positioning to achieve a wonderful backlit silhouette. I like the way it makes such a strong diagonal across the frame. Personally, I'd crop the building out completely so we had a really surprising presentation of a vast cloud billowing from a tiny chimney.
chocolate
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