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Challenge: Centered Composition (Advanced Editing II)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S602Z
Location: Old Burying Ground, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Date: May 10, 2004
Aperture: f 4.5
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/85
Galleries: Emotive, Architecture
Date Uploaded: May 11, 2004

 The Welsford-Parker Monument was erected in Halifax's Old Burying Ground on July 17, 1860 in memory of Captain William Parker and Major Augustus Welsford, Nova Scotians who died at Sebastopol in the Crimean War. The image of is a stone lion's head that looks down on you as you go through the monument's archway.

Shot in colour
Cropped to center lion's head in the shot
Transformed to greyscale
Adjusted levels
Much burning to bring back washed out highlights
Loaded PS Tritone function in Duotone
Cropped to square crop
Resized to meet challenge requirements
Adjusted levels again
USM
Thin black border then wide white border

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05/18/2004 02:11:43 PM
Something givess the impression of being astray here - it seeems tilted, but it isn't when you look closely - I guess just not taken from directly head on. This does highlight a problem with this challenge though - to me, a centred composition absolutely requires a strong graphical element to an image, which this has with those curved shadows and pointing lines - but those graphical elements have to be very regular. Good detail here, though that direct light has lost you some element of texture and perhaps mystery from the scene. 6
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Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 05/17/2004 03:57:29 PM
bronx zoo ?
Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 05/17/2004 12:17:17 PM
Nice sepia tones
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