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ctfchallenge | all galleries >> The Best of CTF Challenges >> Best of 2006 > 1st
Rain City*
by Brent
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03-NOV-2006 Brent

1st
Rain City*
by Brent

Seattle

Canon EOS 30D ,Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
1/50s f/4.0 at 27.0mm iso800 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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Guest 08-Dec-2006 23:53
awesome reflections. v
Guest 10-Nov-2006 18:49
The reflections on the road are amazing!
Henry Dondi 06-Nov-2006 15:10
Great colors and reflections!
ctfchallenge06-Nov-2006 04:19
Very warm look for a damp evening. Yvonne
ctfchallenge06-Nov-2006 01:14
Great colors, nice reflections - Arie
ctfchallenge05-Nov-2006 21:46
Great look to this city street shot Brent. I like the colors, reflections and the composition. You must have been standing on one of those islands for this. The person hurrying by with his/her umbrella adds to the feeling of the end of the work day and rush to get home out of the rain too. Great looking sky also! :-) CJ
Brent 05-Nov-2006 17:16
Thanks for your comments all. It was indeed a dreary night getting going, but you get used to that this time of year living in this town. The summers can be glorious though. I'm glad I shot this when I did, as since then all weekend it has gotten quite windy too and doesn't seem to be letting up. Oh well, I'm less than two weeks from a tropical vacation, can't wait! :-)
Rod 04-Nov-2006 22:30
Maybe the HDR look was wot I was seeing Jammy, though looking at it on the missus lap top LCD screen it looks more subdued & natural than on me main monitor.
ctfchallenge04-Nov-2006 19:06
Btw, at first glance I thought that this was a HDR.

- Jamdiver
ctfchallenge04-Nov-2006 19:05
Beautiful, damp, dreary...........
Wonderful colours....... this photo positively glows......

And it definitely is the kind of weather that we associate with Seattle.

- Jamdiver
janewigginsphotography04-Nov-2006 18:21
Beautiful! Damp, cold, pretty...and I agree with Paul on that sense of feeling. This is especially nice with the brick road. jano
Paul 04-Nov-2006 09:15
This is great. Colours, sense of movement, composition. What i really like though is the sense i get of a wet autumnal/winters evening when all you want to do is get home, put your feet up and relax. Excellent. Colours look perfectly natural for city lights to me.
aam1234 04-Nov-2006 09:09
Like the colors too. And the blue sky/clouds make good contrast with the rest of the photo (color-wise). Hope that makes sense.
Brent 04-Nov-2006 07:48
Thanks Christina and Rod. I'm glad you mentioned the saturation Rod. I shot this RAW and used the Canon program to convert it in "standard" mode, and with all the crazy colors of the lights and fall trees thought it looked pretty accurate. I reconverted it using "faithful" mode and it dropped the saturation down just a tad to be more believable. The jpegs I shot were actually more saturated than this, but I like this better- so thanks!
Rod 04-Nov-2006 06:26
I luv the wet street shots well done Brent. Did you up the saturation? this looks a bit over cooked to me.
Squared C04-Nov-2006 04:59
Awesome colors!