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Challenge: Payphones (Basic Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Nov 30, 2010
Aperture: 5.02
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Urban, Science and Technology
Date Uploaded: Nov 30, 2010

 Vandalized pay phone stanchion ... title from an old Larry Niven science fiction story.

-Handheld, manual mode
-RGB Curve
-Isolate Green Channel to Grayscale
-Resize
-Crop a little from left and right
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice
-Enlarge Canvas twice to form border
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 267KB

File: Phone_IMG_6579gsDPC.jpg

Resized original:

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM
 12/04/2010 01:09:30 PM
How funny, they've managed to mangle everything but the coin box, definitely says something about the quality of that part of the construction :)
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Nikon D80
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5- 5.6G ED DX
 12/01/2010 04:51:50 PM
Not keen on the border.
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