Wow I can't believe a top 10 finish. I am pleased and want to thank everone that commented and voted. I was actually on my way to take an action shot for the other exclusive open challenge when I drove by a muffler shop and saw this out back and immediately thought this would be good for bits and pieces. I pulled in to the parking lot and got out my camera. I was approached by two men that worked their asking what I was doing. I told them photography was my hobby and I like the lines and tones of the subject and asked could I take a picture. They paused and one man say yes but just one and then you have to go. I thanked him, took one picture (this one), and left. I did not even go to the place I was going to get the action shot. I believed in this picture. And thankfully it turned out good with one take.
Thanks Everyone,
SDW
1. Using RawShooter Essentials I converted from RAW to Tiff.
2. While in RSE I adjusted WB/EXP
3. Opened in Photoshop CS
4. Levels
5. Curves
6. Hue/Saturation to lower the red channel
7. Sharpen 18-40-0 Normal Mode
8. Sharpen 140-1.0-0 Normal Mode
9. Sharpen 140-0.3-0 Normal Mode
10.Resized image to 630x
11.Increase canvas by 2 pixels white for white border.
12.Increase canvas by 8 pixels black for black border.
13.Save for web at 640x @ 150k
14.Uploaded to challenge.
15.Named and put in all necessary information
Statistics
Place: 7 out of 235 Avg (all users): 6.2488 Avg (commenters): 8.0000 Avg (participants): 6.1644 Avg (non-participants): 6.2917 Views since voting: 2403 Views during voting: 300 Votes: 217 Comments: 28 Favorites: 1 (view)
I quite liked this when voting - not exactly sure why, either. Something about the juxtaposition of shapes, textures, and colors, all realized with good light, good clarity. Maybe that's it.
WOW! I hope this does better than I suspect it will. As a rule, pictures like this fail miserably in DPC (I know 'cuz I have entered a few) but the tonal qualities here are fantastic, and the composition works for me as well. Good luck! I'm glad I came in to finish voting :-)
I like this shot. The pipes pull the eye around and while it is a busy shot, it doesn't overwhelm me to the point of distraction. I don't care for the border, but I find that I rarely see any benefit to a border being added. Only thing I really would gripe about here is that jumble of wires in the lower right corner. They have no place in this shot and are a bit of a distraction. Nice work. 5.
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