Electricity meters after the 2006 Holiday Blizzard.
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Hue/Sat: shift Master left into red
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Selective Color: mess with reds and yellows a bit
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Hue/Sat: shift red left, slight red desat, slight red darken
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Hue/Sat: shift yellow rightward
Curves: red channel
Color Balance: Highlight channel, slight shifts into blue & cyan
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Post-challenge commentary:
(1) It's not crooked - it's leveled by the bricks. If I had leveled it by the meters, the building would very clearly slope off to the right. Though I do wish I'd been able to do something about the barrel distortion.
(2) Repetition constitutes a pattern by definition. Here you have it twice, in the pattern of the bricks and the repetition of the meters.
(3) If you think the color is too dull, wow, you should have seen the original - everything in it was practically gray!
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Neat photo on the whole (nice "found" pattern). I would have liked to have seen a bit more attention to composition either in the shot or in the processing (a bit more cropping of the top, which seems to detract from the shot for my eye), and a bit more brightness to the color differences (especially as there are only three main colors in the image).
I think a tighter crop on just the top row of meters and the straightening of the horizon level would have really made this good picture a great picture.
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