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CEMETERY--AUSTIN, NEVADA


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Exposure Date: 2010:10:02 17:00:36;
Make: NIKON CORPORATION;
Model: NIKON D200;
Exposure Time: 1/125.0 seconds s;
FNumber: f/5.6;
ISOSpeedRatings: ISO 100;
ExposureProgram: Other;
ExposureBiasValue: 0
MeteringMode: Other;
Flash: Flash did not fire;
FocalLength: 75.0 mm mm;
FocalLengthIn35mmFilm: 112 mm;
Software: Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 Windows;


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Really a superb mood picture, David. The dramatic evening sky and the silhouetted angel speak of lonliness and a silent splendor. I decided to fool around and raise the values on the bottom of the statue just a hair to see how it looked and kind of lift it from the background (at least on my monitor). Hope you don't mind.

 

ps: Now that I look at it, I'm not sure if its an improvement or not.

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I don't mind a bit that you played with it. I did too and vacillated between lightening up the shadows and not. In the end, I left it dark, but I'm still ambivalent about it. Thanks for your thoughts.

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Agreed that there could have been, and that was a result of my concentrating on the monument and the sky. Only later did I realize that the element of the cross had distinguished itself so as to need more prominence. But then it was too late.

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The small white cross on the left is so close to the edge of the image as to be distracting - I suggest cropping it out.

Jerry

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the idea of cropping out the cross saddens me - it's as if the angel is paying homage to the cross... it's looking in that direction... and the cross is bathed in light, whilst all around it is in darkness... crop out the cross and the composition changes, admittedly still very good, but perhaps a little diminished from the original

as composed the cross stops my eye from escaping the frame, they bounce back and forth between angel/cross/sky

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so there is a light at the end of the tombstone.  Well, the mood is more of a doomsday.  Pity the angel is not as lit as the cross.  Cheers, Micheal

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