Took this shot from the car with plastic wrap over lense. Was still playing with the # of plastic layers to acheive a nice softer-but-not-too soft appearance.
PP: rotate, crop, levels, NI, gaussian, resize, save for web.
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Woohoo! someone picked this as a favorite! Thank you commenters:)
predictions: not a clue. I think it's a nice photograph and it it gives me the warm fuzzies, but still not sure how voting will go, hopefully more than 4? Mostly I just hope to get some good comments with improvement suggestions. Right now the only thing I'm not so fond of is the spot of blown-out sunlight. If this was an advanced editing challenge, I would have liked to minimize that somehow.
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Place: 199 out of 252 Avg (all users): 4.6622 Avg (commenters): 6.0000 Avg (participants): 4.3871 Avg (non-participants): 4.7669 Views since voting: 716 Views during voting: 320 Votes: 225 Comments: 9 Favorites: 1 (view)
My interpretation of Soft Focus is obviously different to yours as I dont feel this has any soft qualities at all and may just be a little out of focus (MHO)
as a piece of photographic art, i like this a lot. it is a great shot of america, and has an almighty sense of dated realness in a 1970's polaroid kind of way... whether or not it's good for this particular challenge, i am not entirely sure. in some respects, the focus seems either a bit too sharp (the lamp posts, for example), or where it doesn't, seems too out of focus to be considered soft (traffic lights and trees). but i like it! i like the splashes of gold on the left, the shiny areas on the tarmac, the droplets on the glass. so much character, so much to look at. so 7 overall.
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