7 exposures at sunset, layered and erased in CS3, saved as 16-bit TIFF, tone mapped in Photomatix Pro, returned to CS3, hue/sat, resize, sharpen, border, save for web.
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I'll be amazed if this scores 5.5+, but I had a really hard time doing anything for this challenge that pleases me. I would not even have entered if it weren't for League of Death. I do like this image a lot, but expect the voters to pan it.
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Place: 55 out of 84 Avg (all users): 5.6612 Avg (commenters): 5.8824 Avg (participants): 5.4667 Avg (non-participants): 5.7090 Views since voting: 1080 Views during voting: 696 Votes: 304 Comments: 21 Favorites: 0
Well, I liked it and I just wonder what it was about the photo that made you predict the voter reaction.
It's very static in a challenge that more or less demands a more dynamic interpretation. Your flowers are one of the highest-finishing "static" images in the challenge.
If there's one thing this challenge has taught me, it is that if you crowd ten copies of one person next to each other it doesn't look like one person doing something - it looks like a crowd standing there. You've got the nice colors and everything here, but spacing this guy out would really add to the sense of vastness and serenity. All jammed up like this, his presence adds an unwelcome sense of business to that area of the image.
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