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Early Morning Ride.
Early Morning Ride.
BrianR


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Challenge: Suburbia (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Location: Scarness,Hervey Bay,Queensland, Australia
Date: Oct 7, 2008
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/160
Galleries: Urban, Architecture
Date Uploaded: Oct 8, 2008

 Riding Through

This is in the suburb of Scarness in front of townhouses, taken hand held as when I saw them I was just setting up the tri pod took about 6 shots this one I liked.

Opened Lightroom
Toned/Croped

CS3
Selected B&W
Remove Power line
Hue/Sat
NI
Resize
Usm

Post: The steel frame in front of the rider is a bike rack supplied for the public in areas around town. The background are townhouses, the rider on the left is disappearing behind a tree, these are all elements of reality in a suburb.

Original:

I am amazed at the comments, here we have a challenge to show life in suburbia, and when you photograph an event that is happening at the time and do not have time to set up a studio shot with no elements in the foreground or you are unable to change the natural background representing suburbia, you get comments that say this does not do anything for me, or should have been taken from a different angle or what is that in the foreground, why don't we take all photos in a studio and set things up as the voters would like them, why do we photograph reality and then have a photo down voted because there are natural elements there that can't be changed.?????

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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 11/10/2008 02:52:52 AM
Looks like a club ride - and as I know from experience, sometimes you deal with suburbia on club rides. :-) We'd generally head out (in cars) to the middle of nowhere in Texas to avoid the whole suburbia issue, though our biggest problem was with cars and their drivers, not the surroundings. And you know I agree 100% with you about the problems of photographing the way things really are and trying to get votes!
Canon EOS-5D Mark IV
Canon EF 200mm f/2.8 USM
 10/20/2008 10:41:15 AM
Well. . .I like it ! Good job, Brian!

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Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Sigma 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS for Canon
 10/17/2008 12:00:00 AM
Nice selective desat, but the foreground is full of shrub, some strange black thing in the center and cuts off the bike wheels. None of the bikes/rider combinations can be seen fully. The background is also not interesting. This has potential but should have been shot from a different location.
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 10/15/2008 09:35:50 AM
Perhaps if you'd allowed his reflection to be non-desaturatede also, there would be something here for me: as it is, it feels like the only way you could isolate this subject, and even then you have the piece of bent metal in front of him. Hold very little for me, I'm afraid.
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Nikon D2Xs
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED
 10/14/2008 04:07:25 AM
Not a fan of the composition or split tone. What is that very distracting black thing in the middle of the frame? Cropping the guy on the left is also very distracting.
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