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Standing Tall
Standing Tall
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Your Corner of the World III (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-450D Rebel XSi
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
Location: Standing Tall
Date: Oct 18, 2009
Aperture: 22
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/100
Galleries: Nature, Rural
Date Uploaded: Oct 20, 2009

 One of many farming fields NW of my place.

Had to tight crop to eliminate a wire at the top right. Too bad it can't be cloned out in basic.
Also I had a hard time getting a sharper image within 150Kb. I think many voters will find this too soft...

On a last observation, I guess this would be more appropriate for the "Foliage" challenge, so we'll see...

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Statistics
Place: 109 out of 160
Avg (all users): 5.1306
Avg (commenters): 3.6667
Avg (participants): 4.8485
Avg (non-participants): 5.2500
Views since voting: 750
Views during voting: 309
Votes: 222
Comments: 5
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Canon EOS-500D Rebel T1i
Sigma 17-70mm F2.8-4 DC Macro OS HSM
 10/28/2009 05:57:10 PM
Originally posted by Yo_Spiff:
Ouch. I had expected with all those artifacts, that this was an entry from a newbie member. Any idea yet what caused the blocky artifacts?

Hey Steve, thanks for the comments.
Something's not right with the way I'm doing the export process on Lightroom. I had to lower the quality to 20% to get within the 150Kb size, thus the low quality, I presume. I couldn't find out how get around that....
Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III
Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO
 10/28/2009 12:58:10 AM
Ouch. I had expected with all those artifacts, that this was an entry from a newbie member. Any idea yet what caused the blocky artifacts?
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Nikon D300
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 VR DG IF-ED
 10/24/2009 01:29:59 AM
The colors are nice but it seems very pixelated.

I would have like to have seen the tree without the branches being clipped
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Canon EOS-60D
Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
 10/21/2009 05:59:05 PM
Good capture. I give it a 5
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Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III
Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO
 10/21/2009 01:28:58 PM
At first glance this looks nice, but after the first 2 seconds I see tons of ugly compression artifacts. Your file size of 149k is just under the challenge limit, so I think at some time during working on this, you may have saved it with an excessive amount of compression, or done repeated saves and opens in JPG format. A good workflow is to save your file in an uncompressed format, either TIFF or your image editor's native format, until you are ready to post the final product. That way you don't lose any detail.
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