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Challenge: Pattern III (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Location: Hurst Castle
Date: Mar 24, 2008
Aperture: f/9
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/1000 sec
Galleries: Nature, Seascapes
Date Uploaded: Mar 22, 2008

 These are some shells in a small circular garden inside Hurst Castle

Crop, Highlights/Shadow, Curves, Hue/Sat, USM, SFW

This is the original, non cropped version

Statistics
Place: 64 out of 290
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Avg (commenters): 6.4286
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Avg (non-participants): 5.9189
Views since voting: 5886
Views during voting: 265
Votes: 193
Comments: 11
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Nikon D80
Tamron SP AF 90mm f/2.8 Di for Nikon
 04/02/2008 07:49:08 PM
This was a great choice for this challenge. Just echoing what KarenNfld said, I would bet that putting a medium or high contrast curve on this with slightly increased saturation would really make this pop. Awesome patterns overall.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark IV
Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS
 04/02/2008 07:12:24 AM
Way underrated shot. Just wonder why you shot it at ISO 400 f/9 and 1/1000th when you could have easily used f/11, ISO 100 and 1/160th ?
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Nikon Coolpix L6
 03/31/2008 11:04:56 PM
A very interesting concept. Maybe you could have gotten shells with a little more color?
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 03/31/2008 08:12:08 PM
This is beautiful. I wonder what it would look like with a bit more contrast and saturation?
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Canon PowerShot A630
 03/30/2008 06:42:59 PM
I don't know how long it took you to create this but it is unique. I like all of the different colors that you managed to include. There is also a lot of rythm
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 03/29/2008 12:48:38 PM
Probably the only shot in the challenge where I am going to support the randomness of your subject. You did a brilliant job showing the variations that nature has added to the simple shell pattern.
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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
 03/28/2008 12:32:40 PM
Absolutely fantastic! One of my favorites so far. The randomness and chaos of the shells is so strong, but yet my eye can pick up the patterns all over the place, even in the upside down foreground shell. Very creative, hope to see this one do well. Kudos.
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Sony Alpha a7 V
Sony FE 70-200mm f/2.8 GM OSS II
 03/26/2008 11:36:13 PM
I would have put the "odd" one (fliiped) somewhere off center.
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Canon EOS-60D
Sigma 70-200 /2.8 APO EX DG Macro HSM II
03/26/2008 02:39:55 PM
nice try but would be better with less shells
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Nikon D7100
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 03/26/2008 11:34:18 AM
Less really is more, esp in a shot like this. No one shell is the focal point.
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Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z20
 03/26/2008 10:12:21 AM
I like how you captured the texture of the shells and that one shell seems a little out of place because it's upside down
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