Challenge:City Life (Classic Editing) Camera:Casio QV-4000 Location: Berlin, near Potsdamer Platz Date: Jun 21, 2002 Aperture: 2.0 ISO: 100 Shutter: 1/1000 Date Uploaded: Jun 23, 2002
I photographed something else when suddenly the heron appeared. I hadn't much time taking pictures because he walked away after some time. I did some closeups but my camera doesn't have such a good zoom and this one already was zoomed in quite a bit.
jmsetzler: Actually the building in the background was brightly orange. I decided to desaturate it and only leave the green to stress the contrast between the "oasis" and the city more.
myqyl: Yes it was taken handheld. I don't own a tripod.
I also had to sharpen it quite a lot using the "unsharp mask" in Gimp. The original looked very "washed out". I struggled a lot with the moiree effect of the building in the background. That's also why I chose "unsharp mask" instead of "sharpen". It had better results.
Many thanks for your comments. I didn't expect such a high score but now I'm very happy with it :-)
To me, the most interesting part of your picture is at the bottom. While I think I understand that you were trying to put the tree in front of the tall building, a close up of the bird, if possible, would have been nice, also.
At first I didn't think too much of this shot (slightly boring), then I found the Heron (I'm a sucker for 'em) and your score went way up! Photo 9 City 9 total 9
The heron in the city is a nice capture :) Is that a heron? Hmmm... not sure.. I also think i would like this shot a little more if the color was punched up just a bit... = 6 - jmsetzler
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