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Crawford's Haven-border
Crawford's Haven-border
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Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
Galleries: Emotive, Seascapes
Date Uploaded: Apr 8, 2007

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 This is Crawford, a fisherman with more interesting stories than a library. I had gone down to our breakwater when i got home from a trip and decided i needed to get out and went down here(my first time in at least 5 years). and i was taking photos on the breakwater when i saw this gentleman on the side of hte breakwater. i ran as fast and safe as i could to get down there. Explained who i was and that im a local photographer and that he would be perfect for my shot. He happily agreed to be in the photo. after i took some shots i spent over an hour there just talking with him about fishing and how peaceful it is and was out that day. i was going to help him Gaff in a big fish if he caught one but after a while i got the call from my mom telling me its dinner time so i didn't have hte pleasure of helping him catch "the big one". I think this was one of my best photographic expierences of my life and i honestly could care less what this scores, im merely entering this to share with you all my new friend Crawford, and his Haven.

ha·ven (hâ'vən)
n.
A place of refuge or rest; a sanctuary.






simple editing:raw convert, hard contrast boost, increase midtones and highlights. another levels layer with increased midtones then masked out bottem portion of water to keep darker. dodged the land a bit by his feet. and applied neatimage, USM, resized, USM, then Save for web

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Nikon D80
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 05/07/2007 04:25:19 PM
nice shot - the colors are awesome. I've been out to the end of the ogden point breakwater many a time. I'm not crazy about the border, and agree with Art's comments. the typography could be stronger. Also, your horizon is slightly crooked - it needs to be rotated clockwise. I've fiddled with it a bit to try and clean the text up (I didn't rotate it).

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Canon EOS-6D Mark II
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 04/08/2007 02:40:53 AM
tip tipt tip for ya - (my opinion of course) - the image is beautiful. I'll comment on it in the other version. For the poster or print here - the title should not exceed the edges of the image itself and the words below the line should be more evenly distributed / spaced vertically - that would make it look MUCH more polished and professional, IMO. Look at those motivational posters or travel posters as an example of the kind of guidelines they follow regarding the borders, titles, subtitles, etc.

edit: Oh, and shave off some of that top border - it should be the same width as the left and right.

Message edited by author 2007-04-08 02:41:43.
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