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Corona and Pine
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Challenge: Sky (Expert Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Olympus D-490Z
Location: Concord, California, USA
Date: Dec 9, 2006
Aperture: 6.1
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/1000
Date Uploaded: Dec 10, 2006

 Pine sapling and clouds, shot while I was waiting in line to get gas. Macro of beer bottle shot at home.

Original shot processing:
-Exposure compensation -1Ev
-Cloned-out streetlight top and a stray bit of cloud
-Noise-reduction with PictureCooler
-RGB Curve
-Blue Channel Curve

Second photo processing:
-Tungsten WB
-RGB Curves to highlight and fade bottle
-Channel Mixer convert to grayscale
-Export to TIFF file

Composite steps:
-Pasted gray image into new layer over the sky photo
-Erased background around bottle
-Stretched and scaled bottle to better match shape/position of cloud
-Lowered opacity of bottle layer to about 4%
-Resize for DPC
-USM at 12%/48/TH = 0
-USM at 12%/48/TH = 0 (second application)
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 9/10 = 154kb

Statistics
Place: 118 out of 123
Avg (all users): 4.7176
Avg (commenters): 4.2500
Avg (participants): 4.5000
Avg (non-participants): 4.7937
Views since voting: 916
Views during voting: 445
Votes: 255
Comments: 17
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 12/22/2006 11:47:14 PM
Originally posted by posthumous:
7 for the mostly invisible giant beer-bottle who is apparently eating Miami.

Oh, you had it completely right until you got to Miami -- that's a pine -- not a palm tree there ... : )
 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/20/2006 09:48:10 PM
I don't understand what the thing is in the clouds.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/19/2006 09:53:09 PM
There seems to be some 'ghost' image over the darkest part of the cloud. I can not tell what it is, but it seems very out of place.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/19/2006 02:45:15 PM
what is the white thing? I think the lens has been ghosted.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/19/2006 10:37:45 AM
7 for the mostly invisible giant beer-bottle who is apparently eating Miami.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/18/2006 09:51:29 AM
Whatever is the traslucent object? A finger ?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/18/2006 12:58:38 AM
Nice
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/17/2006 01:17:16 AM
It's really a cool idea but I'm having a hard time figuring out what the added imgage is. I think it's a thumb but am not sure enough to satisfmy my desire to undestand the image.
Love the choice of color.
:)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/15/2006 08:27:22 PM
Did you intend to have a big ghostly thumb in this shot, or is this just some paint brush accident?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/15/2006 04:37:59 PM
What's the ghostly opaque figure on the right?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/15/2006 04:16:24 PM
This is a little too green looking (too much yellow?) for me, and the (Corona bottle?) on the right is distracting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/15/2006 11:26:30 AM
What's that ghosting from? It's really distracting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/15/2006 11:17:01 AM
interesting experiment. However, I can't quite make out the shadowed figure (corona?) well enough so it really looks more like a smudge on the photo
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/15/2006 02:36:01 AM
Funny colours!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/15/2006 01:04:36 AM
Is it some kind of reflection from the glass to the right of photo?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/15/2006 12:15:01 AM
Nice clouds and composition, but that white shadow (looks like a thumb) totally compromised your image.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/15/2006 12:02:50 AM
There is some masking effect visible.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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