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Published: 2005-06-10 15:25:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 14195; Favourites: 769; Downloads: 5038
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This past weekend, my family and I decided to take Josh on a day trip to Vancouver BC (Canada) and we visited the Capilano suspension bridge. We were on our way back over the bridge to the gift shop and I decided that I wanted a perspective photo of the bridge. Josh had already started walking over it, so I took the photo with him, thinking I could always edit him out if I needed to. Best thing was that when I looked at the photo, I found that it was much better with him in it than without. I scaled it to grey, boosted the whites and darkened the blacks a bit, and added negative space to enhance the visible area. I'm happy- mostly because Josh likes it.
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Nice.
I'm surprised you caught that bridge so empty. o_0 There were bajillions of people when i went.
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Hehe yeah, the first time I went (a couple of years ago), there were a lot more people, but this day, it was kinda cold and drizzly. Apparently, some people just don't seem to like that kind of weather. Odd, no?
Thanks.
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WOW!! Congrats to the DD! I can't believe it... I am very glad for you 
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Thank you, Stefan! I was so surprised to see this- it actually took me a while to really register that I'd gotten a DD. I was like, "Why do I have so many views all of a sudden?"
Thanks again.
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hm... i am envy you a bit 
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Thank you!
I remember you from dAmn somewhere...
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yeah, I remember you from somewhere, too
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#Trivia? It's been a few weeks since I really visited, but that's the dAmn room I visit most.
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and so you should be happy,
its beautifull.
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And I am. Thank you very much.
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wonderful work I love it, and being a native to the area I can really appreciate that beauty of it.
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Hehe I'm glad you like it, and I'm flattered to know that it's appreciated by people in the area- residents of a particular spot always being the harshest critics of any representation of that place, of course. Thank you!!
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this is so awesome, I love it, the colours (or lack of colours should i say) are so effective, a truly awesome photograph.
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This is a really awesome shot. It caught my eye right away. I'm not a big black and white fan, but I feel it really works well with this piece. I love the perspective of this. That's one looooooong bridge. I really does look as if it is going to go into the sun. Really brilliant work!
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Hehe well, I've found that while colors work very well with things that are vibrant but don't have much of a light/dark balance, black and white works very well for photos that do. And of course, once transferred, it needs to undergo a lot of contrast-upping to make it more interesting to the eye. But anyways, yes, while there are some crappier pieces out there in this mode, b/w photos can be really quite nice sometimes, provided you give it enough punch.
Thank you!
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Thank you very much!
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i think this is beautiful.... it's so inviting, really well composed
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Thank you very much.
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you're very welcome
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Bravo, It's nice to see a shot from home every once and a while
(well, not quite home, I'm from victoria, but the rainforest is nice to see)
critiques: I don't really have any
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Yeah, it seems there are a lot of photos of places like Chicago, or my own city (Seattle), or New York, etc. It's kinda nice to get a photo that's in a less-known place.
Thank you!
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b/w always a good choice
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Hehe well, I've found that b/w is a good choice for a lot of photos, but that depends more on the elements in it. A good black-white will emphasis lighting while photos with more color but less light/dark contrast is better in color.
Thank you!
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I like this just the way it is. Simple. Definitely better with the figure on the bridge.
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Thank you!
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I like the white space, and all the black, it just gives it that "gooing towards the light...." feel.
Great picture. I'm glad Josh (even though I don't know who he is) likes it. And half of DA too! xD
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Hehe thanks. I'm just glad it isn't literally half of dA... I'd never get through my message center!
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You're welcome.
Haha! I would kill for such publicity. ^_^ It would keep me busy for days.
I spend all my time on DA, but there's never anything in my message center!
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Hehe well I wish I had that kind of time for dA, but school just steals me away so much, you know?
It's fun to deal with all this, but if I had to do it constantly, I think I'd die.
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Aw, I really don't have the kind of time. I'm really bad. Our school system gave us laptops, so I found a way to get on DA... So, I get on here when I should be working online.
Hehe. Yeah. I had that kinda realization when I posted something in the forum once.
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Yep. It's funny actually- I posted a thread on popularity preference way back in... June or July, about what kind of stats the average deviant would prefer. And it's still alive. I don't know quite how to explain where I was going with that, but I thought it was kinda odd when I got the DD.
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I'm in French class right now. xD
My teacher thinks it's awesome, Cuz I got a French "penpal" on here.
xD Isn't it awesome?
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