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linkf1 — Chilled Solitude
Published: 2005-12-05 22:01:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 937; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 92
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A bench sitting near the Duck Pond @ Virginia Tech. I saw it and thought "I bet nobody wants to sit all the way out here while it is snowing like this." I took a few pics and this one captured the moment best. Nikon D70s and 55-200mm lense. I also though the contrast of the snow and the bench would look nice in B&W so I desaturated it in Photoshop.Related content
Comments: 87
Got a vote from me in the Nature Pics Club Contest.
Very winter.
J
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Thanks for the fav and the vote!
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Beautiful how you captured the emptyness of the scene. Great shot.
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I love the work here... definitely a great choice for b&w... I love how you managed to get the shot while the snow was still falling. Hopefully after I get my camera Christmas day, it'll snow some so I can take some shots
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What kind of camera are you getting?
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you're right, only in b and w. i love this photograph. The bench is very tilted, very dynamic balcks and whites, great depth of field play with the trees in the background. great shot
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Very nice! Love the colors and the simple beauty
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Do you mean the lack of color 
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same difference 
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It's very simple and straight. Well done!
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wow! this is so simple and yet so wonderful. i also love the border...well done
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I like the composition with the approximate symmetry of the photo. Also has a change of season context to the photo, the bunch was once widely used and now greatly ignored. Contrast between values are greatly off.
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Since people have been saying that the contrast is off I touched it up in Photoshop a bit to get rid of the grayness. I reuploaded the pic so it shouldbe close to correct now.
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I did not choose this because it was on the featured deviation, it chose me because I shot a similar shot a while ago to show the lonliness of a bench in winter. This is a well composed shot that reflects a lot of sentiment. Nice job.
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Thank you. It seems that most of the people who see this shot have something to say about it. Im glad it spoke to you.
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thanks for writing back as i forgot your user name and wanted to fav that image. are you a photo student at Virginia Tech?
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No I am an engineering student, photography is just one of my hobbies, my grandmother says my grandfather also loved photography so I guess I get it from him.
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The falling snow is an excellent addition, and the blades of grass sticking out from the snow give this picture a lot more depth, I think. The composition I think is very good, too.. though usually, centered objects aren't all that interesting. 
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I agree usually a centered unmoving object is boring. Thanks for the comment.
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quite beautiful with that snow falling, good depth of field there, but i feel again that that contrast needs to go up a bit, infact no, put the levels up a bit first, tehn the contrast
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Oh wow,
this is an amazing shot, like...I'm not an expert on photography,
but I LOVE this.
You have my dev watch for sure.
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A great images. Simple subject, but has strong lines to it, beautifuly centered. I feel a fav coming on.
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Thank you very much for the comment and the fav.
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theres something about benches isnt there? very grate shot...give a feeling of lonelyness isnt it ?
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Definately has a feeling of lonelyness/solitude ... that is why I picked this title.
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This is a very nice shot.. Really suits the title.. The angle you chose doesnt create a very dynamic image though.. A more interesting angle may have created a better DoF too make a really nice image. I really like it though.
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nice job, normally in these kind of pictures it has stopped snowing but i like it that it is in this photo, well done
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Yeah I was pulling the camera out of the case to take a few pics and then putting it back in to make sure it didnt get water damage.
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