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Challenge: Bad (Basic Editing*)
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Camera: Pentax K100D
Lens: Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF
Location: Valero Refinery, Benicia, CA around 7 a.m.
Date: Feb 3, 2007
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 3 sec.
Galleries: Urban, Science and Technology
Date Uploaded: Feb 3, 2007

 When I saw the Bad challenge, I knew I wanted to do an image about global warming using one of the nearby refineries. Risky business mixing politics and art (or science and art) (or science and politics for that matter), so I'll probably get hammered by some right out of the box. Shot the refinery just before sunrise; was hoping to get the red sun rising behind the refinery, but couldn't get the right angle to capture that image. The sun is rising to the left in this shot, which is what gives the smoke that rosy glow.

Cropped the top, levels, contrast, brightness, USM, resize, save as.

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Place: 45 out of 217
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Canon EOS-40D
Sigma 24-35mm f/2.0 DG HSM A
 04/03/2007 09:31:40 PM
Nicely captured! the lighting has a nice gloomy effect that spells BAD :)
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Ricoh GR III
Pentax DA 18-135mm F3.5-5.6ED AL [IF] WR DC
 02/14/2007 12:48:07 AM
Ditto bmartuch.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Fujifilm FinePix S3 Pro
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8D
 02/13/2007 06:36:01 PM
stretch, both in the truth and in meeting this challenge. nice photo, but 'bad'...?
Nikon D7200
Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G
 02/10/2007 05:51:40 PM
Nice idea and nice shot. Good job on the colors and the exposure.
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Nikon Z9
Nikon AF Nikkor 20mm f/2.8D
 02/09/2007 06:39:57 PM
Nice picture, but shoehorned in I'm afraid.
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