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Challenge: Blurry Mess (Basic Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Olympus D-490Z
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Mar 10, 2008
Aperture: 4.4
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/80
Galleries: Political, Blur
Date Uploaded: Mar 10, 2008

 Yet another shot of the metal grillework above the Caldecott Tunnel. This time, a semi-inverted RGB Curve was able to bring out the edges, and allowed me to colorize the image to resemble bamboo. The pointy shapes in the right half gave me the impression of ranks of missiles; the way the tones fade across the image gave me the feeling of something hidden being slowly revealed. I guess it seemed topical given some recent news reports of China's increased military spending.

Maybe there's too much order for this particular challenge, but it's blurry and ir references a messy situation ...

-RGB Curve
-Green Curve
-Blue/Yellow Curve
-Crop/rotate
-Resize
-USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH = 5
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 8/10 = 125kb

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Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM II
03/15/2008 09:36:22 PM
dont see much blurr here
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Sigma DP1x
03/15/2008 07:06:46 PM
Bold, noisy and overdone -- so you've achieved "messy". Blurry enough too. I like the pattern. Nice work!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 03/13/2008 12:12:36 AM
seems too structured for the challenge topic in my opinion
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D3000
Nikon AF-S DX 18-105 f/3.5-5.6 ED VR
 03/12/2008 09:05:46 PM
Not exactly a blurry mess and seems very organized. I do like the image but does not meet what I expected for this challenge.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 03/12/2008 02:46:23 PM
I would guess that what you're trying to imply is what is behind the curtain is blurred but I'm not quite getting that.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D80
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5- 5.6G ED DX
 03/12/2008 11:50:44 AM
you are now entering the matrix....
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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